 Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. I'm joined by Philipp Metzger, Director General of OFCOM Switzerland. Philipp, it's been Geneva, it's been Switzerland who's been playing a leading role in these WSIS forums since 2003. How have priorities changed? Well, I think the priorities changed in the sense that the world has become even more complex. I mean, everybody was looking at the Information Society with a degree of uncertainty at the time and now we're realizing that we're going past, in fact we're going past the Information Society stage. It's not just information and data flow anymore, it's digitization that kicks in at all the levels of our lives. And so I think the complexity will increase and the challenges will increase as well and especially for organizations like mine, which has had a traditionally very clearly defined role, it's also becoming a challenge to know what the limits are in a sense and where we have to reach out to other stakeholders to try and crack the challenges. And that's what WSIS is all about, isn't it? It's about public-private partnerships. Absolutely, it's a concept of multistakeholderism that we're applying much more today, also at the national level. I think people get to realize that, of course, there will always be some laws we need, some basic rules that have to be respected and also enforced, but the community realizes that it's becoming much more complex, that we need more roundtables, we have more roles of moderation, of facilitation as well, we have more soft law tools and so that's something that is going to stay with us. In your opening remarks this morning, you said that we need to embrace digitalization but also put the human being at the center. Is this one of the challenges, reconciling the two? I think so, yes, absolutely. I think in ICT we've all experienced that, we've all had probably advisors on ICT telling us what computer we should use and then realized it doesn't fit our needs, that we process things and so I think that's a constant challenge, not to forget we are human beings. There are limits as to how quickly we can adapt, what we can absorb and of course with an overall digitization at all levels, this becomes something we have to constantly remind ourselves even more. And it's also of course about bringing in some of the more excluded groups to this process of digitization. Women, how are we going to unleash the potential of women and girls? Of course this starts at the fundamentals of any state, it has got to do with equality, equal treatment and I think we see still many patterns in our non-digital lives, so to say, where we have to be extremely vigilant and also as leaders, as managers to constantly make efforts to bring everybody on board. And then when it comes to the ICTs it's true, we have a challenge, we see that very much in Switzerland, we're not very good if you look at the technical profession of motivating young women and girls to come on board. We just did an off-com on the 28th of April, we celebrated the Girls in ICT date that ITU has launched a few years ago and it is not so easy to get the attention from the female community, the young women as well. And so I think we have a huge challenge on our hands there and I think you have to be in it in the long haul. This is not something where you can just do a show and then one year later this is all going to turn around so it really requires a lot of stamina but I think ultimately we are going to go close the gap whether we ever get there in a 50-50 share, that's another story but we have to keep going, we have to keep digging. And you have to keep going until 2030 because of course you're trying to align the WISIS action lines with the sustainable development goals. I think there will be also, I mentioned the complexity before there will also be a challenge from that perspective because we have of course a WISIS which is a great place to get things done and also deliver best practices to others but now we have some very clear goals that are set by at the United Nations level and we have to bring that together, make it fit with what WISIS is doing and I think make it concrete and putting the programs in place that we need for that is a big challenge because we have such a huge disparity if you look at the global community. Philip Metzger, Director General of Ofcom Switzerland thank you very much for joining us and please do join us on the ITU YouTube channel where we will be interviewing regulators, ministers, experts on ICTs all week here at the WISIS Forum. Thank you very much.