 We're here at the ITU studio in Geneva and I'm very pleased to be joined by Ms Sylvia Pole who is deputy permanent representative of the permanent mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations in Geneva and she's also vice chairman of the Council Working Group for Child Online Protection. Ms. Pole, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you very much for inviting me, it's a big honour. Child Online Protection has received overwhelming support globally and in Costa Rica. President Lara Chinchilla has joined hands with ITU as patron of this initiative. Why is it so important for Costa Rica? This is a very important initiative for Costa Rica. Since 2010 the president was invited to be the patron of this worldwide initiative. She felt first very honoured but also felt a very big responsibility. Costa Rica has always been a country which has placed a lot of importance in issues related to human rights, to peace, to security and to social issues. And one very important project for her is to give accessibility to telecommunications to all the population of Costa Rica and that includes also children. She always has thought that the importance of having accessibility to telecommunications to ICTs will bring a lot of opportunities to our population, to the country and she has placed a lot of efforts on that. But at the same time she also recognised that in the case of children there's also a lot of challenges related to the problems that can come up of the use of internet and all the things related to children online. And for her first at a national level she made a big effort to establish a commission, it was a commission where the government with civil society, with the private sector have been working together to try to push these issues but from an angle related to education to creating awareness about the problems that can come up with the use and the dangers that are in the internet for children. So this she has also tried to put as an example for the rest of the world and she has tried to work diligently with Dr. Tré and ITU to try to create awareness and promote the importance of on one side all the opportunities that the online world can give to young people but on the other side also be aware of the problems and the dangers for children. Now your vice chairman of the council working group here at the ITU at an international level what steps have been taken by the council to strengthen child online protection? Well the latest steps have been very important since last year we re-established the COOP partners group and it's a group of a lot of members from governments, from civil society, from private sector. We had last year a big meeting during the WISIS forum and this year we had another meeting during the WISIS forum which was even more successful and that is a big positive science about the interest in the issues. And this has given a platform for a lot of actors and stakeholders related to the COOP to be able to exchange experiences and establish guidelines where we want to go with the COOP initiative and this is one of the big projects that have been really working really well. And finally Costa Rica is hosting the Global Youth Summit in September. What do you hope will be achieved by the summit? Well we're first of all very honored that we're hosting the Global Youth Summit. It's the first ITU Global Youth Summit and the premise to this event is to try to get over 500 youths to come to Costa Rica and discuss around ICTs the big issues related to what is important to them in relation to jobs, in relation to the environment, in relation to safety online, in relation to health and also accessibility. And after three days we want to have a very dynamic event. We want to break a little bit about from the traditional way of doing meetings because we will be surrounded by young people who want to have, probably do things a little different so we will have workshops, we will even do some off-site activities and not everything will be in the hotel where the summit will be held. And at the end what we want to have is very specific outcomes. We want to have for example a permanent exhibition about the COP in Costa Rica that will hopefully stay in Costa Rica. And we will also want to have a final document about the biggest issues and the discussions related to all these young people that the President of Costa Rica will be taking to the General Assembly only two weeks later in New York and presenting it to the whole UN system and telling them what the young people. And it's also very oriented to the post-millennium development goals, the post-2015 what they want beyond that, what they are going to be the future leaders, the people who will be leading our countries, our businesses, our NGOs and we want to know what they want and how they see the world but always at the core ICTs and how ICTs can serve as a tool to get to discuss other issues related to the post-MDGs. Silvipoel, thank you very much for being with us today. Thank you very much.