 Welcome to the AI for Good Global Summit 2018. My guest today is Samir Pujari. He is the project manager of the Be Healthy Be Mobile program at the World Health Organization. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you Charlotte, it's a pleasure being here. So Samir, to start with, what can you tell us about AI and how it can be used to improve access to good health globally? Thanks Charlotte. I think AI, if we look at the definition we have been discussing is more of an artificial intelligence, we try to call it automated intelligence. Whereby we can try and reach out to a maximum population with the knowledge we have thus far and how it can be replicated to provide services and knowledge to enable the direct ground up individuals. So the first time we have an opportunity where the people on the ground can benefit through the massive outreach of technology in form of mobile phones and applying AI to the products that can be delivered to those mobile phones. I think it gives an immense opportunity for public health and for better goodness of health, not only in terms of management of diseases but also in terms of prevention. So we can now keep people healthier for a longer time in sort of perspective using these AI solutions. And what can you tell us about your collaboration with ITU on this specific project, Be Healthy Be Mobile? So the Be Healthy Be Mobile is a very visionary program that was started between WHO and ITU about five years ago. And the objective was to try and bridge the gap between the supply and demand for digital health and digital health goods. So to bring together the evidence which is there is so much evidence going on around the world showing the impact and the value of how mobile health and digital health can benefit the common population's public health programs. And we came together as UN agencies to help governments scale up these evidence-based programs at national level. And we have been working in about 12 countries for the last four years and have successfully scaled up programs in all these 12 countries to give you an example of India which is one of the biggest programs has over 2 million users in a tobacco control program which allows mobile technology and combination of algorithms to help people quit tobacco without any human intervention based on evidence-based programs. Another example of Senegal which was using diabetes management through mobile health. And the beauty of this infrastructure and digital health program is that once you create a structure with the government and build the capacity, they can use it for other health services. So last time in 2014 when Ebola was happening, Senegal used the same platform for Ebola education and could avoid a lot of this work or could sort of strengthen a lot of the awareness that went around Ebola with the same platforms. So I think that's the strength of this partnership and we are bringing in different stakeholders, not from the Ministry of Health only but Ministry of Telecommunications, private sector, public sector, all with the knowledge and expertise to put into a common good. I think that's the strength of this initiative which has been successfully rolling for the last four years now and keeps going strong. So how important is it for you and your organization to be here at the AI for Good Global Summit given that it's a platform where the various stakeholders are all involved in working together? I mean I think has been said repeatedly by everyone. You could see the leadership from a director general speaking at the opening session where he himself showcased the value and said clearly how much WHO values the role of AI in going forward in health. And I think this is the perfect setting and the perfect forum to bring together different stakeholders and I have been chairing, co-chairing the session on AI for Health yesterday. And there was such huge sort of spread of expertise and stakeholders and everyone wanting to come together. For the first time we saw donors and funders wanting to invest and come and talk to the entrepreneurs, to the UN agencies to see how we can collaboratively work. I'm very sort of happy to announce as was discussed this morning that we have a way forward to try to convert this actual discussion into action plans and actually implement some programs. So I think it's a fantastic summit and I really connected ITU and I hope to see these going forward more stronger and still there. Somya Pujari, thank you very much. Thank you so much Charlotte.