 Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. And I am delighted to be joined by Marta Tomowska, Minister of Information Society and Administration in Macedonia. Marta, welcome. So please do tell me what sort of progress is Macedonia making into becoming an information society? Thank you very much for your invitation. Macedonia, I'm really happy to say that it's making relatively good progress in terms of development of information society. And I say relatively good because we always can do better and can provide even more, let's say, services to our citizens that are electronically, electronic services, for example, for e-government services, e-business or whatever is needed. However, the situation is good not only because we are really good positioned on the indexes that international organizations are measuring. Success rate of the implementation of Internet Society like ITU index, like World Economic Forum or World Bank. But it is the real situation in the country if you come to Macedonia, for which I'm sending you the invitation now. You can see that there is infrastructure and there is easiness, let's say, to access the Internet from everywhere. You go even from the hotels, from the streets, from the cafes, from the offices whenever you are. So that makes us like one of the countries in the region that has good results in this area. We have 70% of penetration of broadband into the country, while about 40 to 45% is on a fiber optic. We have covered the entire country with mobile broadband. Both of our mobile operators have LTE networks, so it's 4G networks. You say both of the mobile operators. I imagine that for competitive pricing you would like more mobile operators to enter into the market to get prices down. That's exactly true. So we are planning to amend the regulation by opening the space for even more competition. So we would like to invite, let's say, mobile network operators plus mobile alternative operators to enter the market. So the end users, Macedonian citizens, have even better prices for the mobile services. One of the issues, of course, is making sure that everybody can have access to the Internet, whether it's the young or the elderly, and the elderly often feel that they've been left behind. What are you doing in Macedonia to make sure that they're part of the information society? Yes, since there is good infrastructure, we are also planning to have the broadband as a universal service. Therefore, we are launching a tender for an operator that will provide fixed broadband even to the remotest village in the country, which will be done by the end of 2017. The infrastructure is there. The motivation is something that we need to work on. We have started even to introduce the information technology, even from the elementary school to our kids, by launching a project, computer per child, even like seven or eight years ago. So the youngsters are ready to adopt the new technology. For the working people, they have Internet, of course, because of their job conditions. And for the elderly people, they are really motivated to use the Internet because we are always promoting the benefits from the Internet. They can be in touch with their relatives all around the world. They can read the news, get informed, learn something new that they didn't know. And we did two interesting projects in order to make the Internet and the entire technology accessible for them, which was implementation of 680 Wi-Fi kiosks all around the country, plus 25 Internet cafes that are sponsored by the government, where these people are getting basic Internet skills trainings. So in fact, Macedonia is an applicant country for the European Union. You're well on the way to meeting the targets of the digital agenda 2020. Exactly. We are chasing the same goals that are valid for European Union members. By this, we are planning to have broadband Internet with high speeds by the end of 2020, which means that the entire population has to have access to really fast broadband, which is about 30 Mbps, while half of them, 50% of the population should be connected via 100 Mbps. Marta Tomowska, Minister of Information Society and Administration in Macedonia. Thank you very much for joining us. It was my pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. And please do join us on the ITU YouTube channel for more interviews with ministers, regulators, business people, non-governmental organizations, who are all trying to make sure that information communication technologies are reaping the benefits for everybody around the world.