 Welcome to WTDC17 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today by Dr. Martha Suarez, who is the head of the Colombian delegation. Dr. Suarez, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure for me to be here and to be part of this interview and I'm very glad to participate in the conference. Now, I'd like to start off by talking a little bit about the theme for this conference is ICT for SDGs. In what ways has your country been integrating ICTs in its development agenda? The SDGs are included in our national development plan. And we have also state policy for ICTs. And in that policy we started in 2010. And the first four years, it was the name of this policy is Plan B Digital. And it was created with the main objective of reducing poverty. So that was like how to reduce poverty through ICT. And the second part of the plan from 2014 to 2018, it has been focused on people. So it's Plan B Digital para la gente for people. And what we are doing now is including all the main objectives in our plan. And we have been focusing especially in number one, reducing the poverty. We have been also focusing on education, high-quality education, reducing the gender gap and creating jobs, mainly in the ICT field. And we have been encouraging all those goals through our plan and through investment from the government for those objectives. And what is it to ask you in terms of challenges? What challenges do you face in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals? And how do you see ICTs making a difference? The main challenge is to integrate industry, academia, social community and government. And what we have seen now is that it's not only about ICTs, we are just the tool to get to them. And it's not easy to integrate all the stakeholders in this plan. Right now we are creating a change in the ministry. We have created a vice ministry of digital economy. And that vice ministry is integrating health stakeholders, justice stakeholders, education, all of them. So I think that that is the harder part is to have a good conversation with them to show the advantage of technology and to make them part of these development goals. Well, we are convinced that the agenda to 2030 is very ambitious. And we are convinced that if we manage to implement them, there will be a completely different world. And especially for Colombia, we are in a very changing process now. We are changing. We have the peace agreement. We are working on integration and creating one consolidated country. So we are convinced that all of these objectives, not only economic growth, but also regarding environment, water protection, etc., they will improve the quality of life of the people. What about policies and regulatory reforms? What do you think is needed in order to connect the next billion, especially in remote and rural areas? Well, the first is to integrate all the stakeholders, I was saying, because it's not only about connecting them. It's about making that solution sustainable in the time. So in particular, and I'm going to speak from spectrum management. What we have been doing is trying to find how different technologies can complement each other. So we have been increasing the number of connections, broadband connections. Colombia has been very ambitious. In 2010, we had 2.2 million of broadband connections in the country. Now we have more than 28 million. So we passed from 2.2 to 28 million. And that has been a lot of work. But we are convinced that there is not only one technology. We are also working with new systems that are affordable. For example, for rural areas and remote areas, we have approved, in Colombia, the first country in Latin America that has regulation regarding TV wide spaces. So we think that it's very useful for places or cities that have less than 100,000 people. So it's only for those places that are disconnected, but it provides the possibility to have broadband access with affordable price. So that is one of the things that we are working. We are also thinking about spectrum sharing. And in general, what we are trying to do is to create the maximum benefit for society from the spectrum management. And finally, why is this WTDC 17 important to Colombia? What concrete actions would you like to see coming from this conference? Well, we have been very active regarding, first, the strategic view. So we have been working on the declaration of Buenos Aires on the action plan. And we see that there are many points of discussion here. The study questions that have been decided are very important for us. I will just give some examples. We think that PPCR communications for emergency situations is very important, mainly for the Latin American region. Unfortunately, in the last months, we had many different situations that were very hard to face. We are also convinced that broadband connectivity is the first step to achieve all these goals and to include society. We are also supporting actions like, for example, in inclusion, in women inclusion, gender equality, of course. Also, for us, for Colombia, it's very important everything regarding handicapped people. So that's one of the issues we have been working on in this conference. We have been discussing about that. We have also, for example, electromagnetic fields measurement. That's something that the citizens are worried sometimes about, okay, you're connecting everyone, you're deploying infrastructure, but what about health and what we want to give them is like, look, we are controlling everywhere the limits of exposure to the electromagnetic fields and we want to provide certainty to the community that it doesn't affect health but that we have the benefits of connectivity. So there are many, many important points. I would like to point out. And finally, we hear the last couple of days here of the conference. Is there a key message that you would like to convey here to participants? Well, I would like to say that it's been a hard week. I just came for the second part of the week of the conference. But I think that we are defining here like the main structure of the work we will have in the next four years. So I think it's very important what we are doing here. There are many subjects that have been out of the final conclusions. We have been deciding which are the most important ones and I think we have the framework for the next actions. And what is important also now is that all the countries make part of it that we share the best experiences and that we continue with the capacity-building activities of ITUD in order to create a better environment for technology development. Dr. Mathis, thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much.