 Welcome to the Global Symposium for Regulators 2019 here in Port Vila, Vanuatu. We're very pleased to be joining the studio today by Ivan Brown, who is the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners for the Liberian Telecommunication Authority. Ivan, welcome to the studio. Thank you so much and I'm happy to be here. I'd like to start off by talking to you a little bit about the theme for this year's Global Symposium for Regulators, Inclusive Connectivity for the Future of Regulation. What, in your opinion, how can we achieve inclusive connectivity? First of all, let me say thanks to the ITU and the host country, Vanuatu, for the warm reception that we've gotten so far. It's very hospitable. On your question, we all as a global community have come to realize similar experiences, and what we do from our end in Liberia is yet to come to fruition, but it's a working process. We have identified areas to be inclusive in the world community in terms of our universal access program and through our licensing regime and the acquisition of a national backbone. Those are the three most important areas we've come to identify for inclusiveness. Also, regionally, we've been working with our close neighbors, that's Sierra Leone, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, and Liberia through the Manor River Union arrangement to collaborate in finding some harmonization on how we can better off our various communities. In terms of your own country, what particular challenges are you facing? Challenges are enormous. Actually, the first is the concept of affordability. We think that if we have a national backbone in our country, we'll be able to reach to the remote and unserved areas. But at the moment we don't, and so it makes connectivity a little difficult for us. We have the opportunity in 2011 to have the ACE project coming to the country that after that deployment was done, it's only serving the metro area, strictly the capital, and so people in the rural areas and the unserved areas have not been affected. We have not done the divestiture in a way that we'll be able to get it. So I consider all of that as our challenges. And we are working towards that though. As I said, the national backbone project will be the way to go to reach out to those unserved areas. And then another challenge is with the universal assets. But again, we've got some light at the end of the tunnel. We're given some support by the World Bank, a minimum support that was able to make us start that program off the ground. And currently we've got the fund and the program itself started with the stakeholders, mainly the operators and some service providers chunking into that fund as half percent of the annual revenue to that fund so that we can be able to accomplish some of these connectivity issues that we've had. Finally, you've taken the time to be here. I know you made a concerted effort that you were three days in terms of your travel arrangements. I wanted to find out, has it been worth it and what do you hope to take away with you going back to Liberia after this conference? The first and foremost is that you come to these conferences, your network, you meet people that you haven't met before. And some of the problems that you've had, you surely get to know that others have had it, if not solve it 100 percent, at least to some extent. And so I'm going back to Liberia with a lot of solutions in my hand, knowing who to contact in terms of what. And the spectrum side, on the connectivity side, I've spoken with a lot of people. And I think it's worth my while coming. And now we look forward to these kind of conferences organised by the ITU. Well, thank you very much for joining us here at GSR and of course here in the studio. And I wish you the very best and hopefully we'll catch up with you again at another Global Symposium for Regulators.