 Welcome to ITU's headquarters for WSIS Forum 2019, where the key theme this year is using ICTs to deliver the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And we are talking today about the role of new technologies to help alleviate the impact of disasters with Yuko Murayama, Vice President of the International Federation of Information Processing, IFIP. Yuko, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. I'm delighted to be here to talk about what I'm most interested in. And you have been working on a solution to help better manage disasters, and that's after the tsunami in Japan of 2011, which cost the lives of many, many people. So tell us about your solution. Yes. Actually, at that time, I was working in that area for the university. And after the disaster, we tried and helped the disaster area. And what we found out, there was actually no information systems or tools you expect to help out the emergency response and rescue and shelter management, all that we needed in the first three months. So what happens is that in one shelter, which needs water, get a blanket. And another shelter, which needs a blanket, get water. So we needed some good coordinating system to what is required, what we should provide, and that sort of thing. And there was a system actually created in Sri Lanka at the Indusina tsunami several years ago back, but it wasn't quite used. What happened was all the system was described in English. But most helpers in the disaster area in Japan are Japanese local government officers. They don't quite use English for communication. So one has to translate. And one day I was asked to implement those information systems in three days, but it was almost possible. And some other industry people created this system, but it took one month. And this shelter is closed in three months, so it wasn't actually quite in use. So I found these information systems or tools to help the disaster management is really required. So we set up a domain committee in IFIP to look at this area of research and development. And you were here to present your work. Yes. What was the response to it? This year we had this workshop, and we had so many questions from mostly government people from different countries. And this year we are more looking at the people. And we found that one of the participants, the panelists, they use FinTech, blockchain technology for refugees to issue ID and accounts to get the insurance and all that. So we found that really ID could help in one way or another. So we tried to find out this sort of real requirements and the real use in this area. And this shows what happens here at WISIS Forum. It's all about collaboration and learning from each other and actually enhancing your solution through the contact you have with other people. Yes. It's important to attend for that reason, isn't it? Exactly. Disaster management and the use of the ID for disaster management is often categorized in this DG11, which is sustainable cities and communities. But actually at disaster, people will lose their normal life of living and all that. So it's a kind of human rights problem as well. So it's related to all the SDGs, not only SDG11. So I'm interested in this WISIS because you are talking about all the SDGs and disaster is really a problem involving so many all the SDGs. So I'm very excited to talking to people about in different aspects. Yuko Morayama, thank you very much. Thank you.