 The ministry is ten years old this year, we were created to unrealization that development is to be fast-tracked through ICTs, ICTs for the common men and women. We are a vast country with an area of 824 over that square kilometers and a population of 2.4 and we are specially populated. It's quite challenging to ensure that every Namibian is covered, but those are the pains of a nation charting its own destiny for everyone. We hit the road running by looking at the ICT landscape that we found as a new ministry then. We can no longer cry to be new after ten years. The Namibian nation has been expecting a lot rightful so from this ministry and we enacted in two years after the creation of the ministry that was 2009. We enacted the Communications Act, Act No. 9 of 2010 and that was an act that covers a wide range of communication, new technology issues with thrust on liberalizing our ICT environment. Ensuring competition because with competition there are new ideas, there are riches in competition, ensuring that we had telecom Namibia as our landline operator which also ventured into mobile telephony. And then we also moved on to bring in an overaking ICT policy. Of course, ICTs are fast developing and when you make a law or a policy today to level the playing field, in less than a year you are already behind schedule with the rapid development of ICTs and therefore we are constantly challenged to ensure that we provide modern environment for operations. We also created the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia, the bodies that is charged with ensuring that there is sound management of the natural resource called spectrum and also ensuring that there is fair play in accessing spectrum to various players in a competitive and environmentally friendly manner particularly with regard to addressing the issue of overpopulating our territory with masks which turns out to be a pollution of the environment. We have ushered in the need to share the masks. Of recent we found that the masks are too many and have not been able to enable us to cover the entire population of Namibia. We have identified that those that are not necessary, we are redeploying them to cover dark spots so that each and every person in Namibia has access to ICTs. We also have the Harambe Prosperity Plan, the government fast-tracking mechanism of our national development plans ushered in by the new administration which is based on the Namibian house an inclusive house, the Namibian narrative and our ICT efforts are aimed at ensuring that by the year 2020 in every asset of ICTs we have covered 80% of the Namibian population. We are striving towards that. We are also working on the electronic transaction and cybersecurity law. It is highly advanced. It was in parliament and had to be withdrawn momentarily for further consultation. It will see the doors of parliament very soon. I feel these efforts in as much as we see them as big, we are grateful to the world out there, the ITU family of nations and the ITU bureau to have noticed what efforts we are making and accorded us the honour of receiving the IDI award. We receive this with honour, with humility and on behalf of Namibia, the Sadeq region and the entire ITU family we are more than grateful. We need to build trust and trust can be built by opening up into private public partnerships so that everybody feels included. Everybody brings to the table the expertise and skills and resources that we have because governments alone cannot harness the resources. The resources are in people, expertise and knowledge and skills are in people and the majority of people do not work in government. They work on their own as individuals, as companies, as private professionals and it is only by opening up to them like we do with our quarterly ICT stakeholder meetings in Namibia. Like we do with our annual national ICT summit to ensure that we expand the space for ICT citizens of the country and the globe. They are improving the ICT investment climate in that they create road maps within the country for all role players to find their niche and to feel acknowledged, to feel appreciated, to feel valued and particularly the investors they know they are not coming into a dark world when they come to Namibia, they come to highways of law, they come to light, they know their investments are protected and appreciated. It is that inclusivity is the kingmaker in any development. We need it to be open, we need to be transparent, we need to be and peace and stability in a country is a great plus, we need to harness peace and sustain peace.