 So my desire is to welcome you to the city, I want to also encourage you, as you engage in the next two days, to also experience what your relationship has to offer, both the day life, the night life, and also make sure you visit the city, the national city park. It is the only city in the world with a national park in its environment. So with that allow me just to say welcome to the nation. I'm working to bring more MSMEs into the digital economy. Massacar is leveraging all technology innovations and solutions beyond savings to help them get paid, to access capital, to get digital, to be safe and secure wherever they are. I believe so far you begin to see the color of technology, the possibility of technology, of the agricultural sector in this economy. And we want to healthcare. So it's on Churchill, a clean culture that he said, healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. In the health sector, we're working through technology as the potential to transform the delivery of medical services and improve healthcare access for all Canadians. Kenya has invested in telemedicine, digital health records, mobile health applications, and all this of continuity to build the government. I'm Nairobi, I feel at home, enjoying what the city has to offer. And I wish you all the very best on behalf of the citizens of Kedavana and its deputy and also the executive of Nairobi City County. I wish you all the best in the deliberations and I want to thank you once again for inviting us and also want to say I have a very special connection with Berlin and especially her connection with Germany, everyone from biofarmers who posted the last 12 years before doing the county government in Nairobi. So thank you very much and I really, really want to ensure that you connect and you can make Nairobi work as a dancer. Thank you. A big round of applause for her. She also represents Nairobi County's female leadership, I think she does deserve. A big round of applause. Thank you so much. And now ladies and gentlemen, it is my honour to invite the secretary to the cabinet here in the Republic of Kenya, Honourable Masi Wajal to come give us her remarks around our applause for her as she is here. Dr Nusanya Udavati, the prime cabinet secretary. The European and International Cooperation, CAST headquarters. Dr Annette Schwadner, country director, CAST Kenya, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I am very delighted to join you here today at this conference which brings us together to deliberate on how all Kenyans can benefit from democracy and economic transformation. I also take note that this conference is taking place at a good moment in history. We have just turned 16 because of our country's independence and Conrad Adenyos too have also just turned 15. This is a great moment and I like the reflections that we had at the beginning and when the gentleman who turned 60 spoke I thought the 50s and the 60s are the start of magical times. It's self-changing, it's soul-shifting. You're allowed to do things you wouldn't ordinarily have done. Is that also perspective modifying the even senior discounts that come with it? It's a great moment. So here's to celebrating our milestones as we grow older as we look forward to great moments together. In Kenya, the utmost priority for CAST has been the promotion and consolidation of democracy which has in turn contributed immensely to our political development over the year. We look forward to that collaboration as we continue to write on the study foundation that has been built over the past 50 years. I wish to now turn the lens to the thematic area that is going to be discussed this morning, leapfrogging through technology and economic development in Kenya. In recent years, Kenya has made significant strides in embracing technology as a catalyst for growth. As we look forward to the future, the potential for leapfrogging in various sectors I would say is more promising than ever. It would then be fair to say that the future does indeed look bright because Kenya aspires to be a digitally transformed country. The fifth administration in its bottom-up economic transformation agenda otherwise referred to as BETA has identified technology as a cornerstone and as an anchor of the five priority areas. The others are agriculture, micro-small and medium enterprises, housing and settlement, and healthcare. The dedicated focus on these five priority areas is intended to achieve the administration's vision of making Kenya a middle-class country in every sense of the word, in other words, achieving economic development for all. I was very delighted to hear from the 60-year-old gentleman that the standards of giving have improved dramatically in the 16 years, but indeed quite a lot still needs to be done. I see technology as an endeavor. I see technology as an anchor that sits at the nexus of achieving the vision of this administration. It will continue to serve as a cornerstone to drive innovation, foster economic growth, and ensure sustainable development. It is therefore imperative to recognize how this leap from the phenomenon can directly influence the five priority areas that have been outlined by this administration as they path to progress. The reality of this possibility of exercising and experiencing the fourth industrial revolution enables the confidence in making this statement today. So let's look at agriculture. Agriculture is a cornerstone of our economy. Food security is necessary for stability and the implementation of cutting-edge technologies such as precision farming, satellite imaging, digital soil mapping can revolutionize the way that we produce food. By leveraging these tools, we can enhance agricultural productivity, optimize resource allocation, and ensure sustainable farming practice. And in this way, improve livelihoods of our farmers and most agricultural sector contribution to the overall economy. This transformation that I speak of is not a theme of the future. It's actually happening and I'll share an example. I recently learned of the work of Apollo Agriculture, a technology company based in Kenya, which empowers farmers by turning their farms into successful businesses and thus providing them a pathway to the middle class. They do this by supporting the farmer in purchasing the items of credit. How does this happen?