 Welcome to WTDC17 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today with Mr. Brahima Sanu, who is the director of the Telecommunications Development Bureau for ITU. Mr. Sanu, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Very great. Great to have you here. Thank you very much. Now, this year we're celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Telecommunications Development Bureau. I wanted to find out from you why is that important and essentially, you know, what's been celebrated here? You always built your future on your past. Over the past 25 years, the telecommunications development sector, including the Telecommunications Development Bureau, have been working to put ICT in the hands of people. You see today the development of the mobile phone, the development of applications, all this as a result of the work of the telecommunications development sector. Of course, the journey is still very long because we still have 3.9 billion people who are not yet connected. However, it's always good to stop and celebrate what we did and to get energy from this celebration to continue for the journey to come. This is what we did here. And I was very happy that the past, the four previous directors of BDT accepted my invitation to join me. I felt so humbled and so privileged to have them with me because they are the ones actually who started this journey and continue. And of course, you've been with BDT for many years and there's been a number of obviously changes throughout that time. And so I know we heard plenty of stories from the previous directors as well of how things have changed from the beginning to today. I wanted to talk to you a little bit about this conference now. I mean, we're here at WTDC 17. It's a conference which is obviously looking at telecommunication development. The theme this year is ICT for SDGs. I really wanted to find out what's the importance of this conference. It's a very important event in the BDT in BDT calendar brought to the ITU calendar and its theme ICTs for SDGs. Yes, you know the world, our highest decision making bodies at the UN General Assembly adopted the sustainable development goals in September 2015. Soon after that, when you see the way ICTs are really being used by all the countries, by all the people today. When you see today the way ICTs, particularly mobile communication, have empowered people in the rural areas who never have had access to any new technology before. When you see that, you tell yourself, this is a golden platform for accelerating the attainment of SDGs. This is the essence of the meaning of this theme. How can we make ICT work for people? How can we empower people and economies, particularly in developing countries, using ICT to achieve the goals? For example, in education, how can you use ICT for learning to make sure that we are inclusive when it comes to education? Not only education, formal education, even awareness raising, how can you use ICT? I think that is a perfect tool. We have a lot of examples. In the case of health sector, actually over the past year, I have been working with UNESCO, working with WHO, working with FAO to make sure that we streamline ICT in their work and this will help them accelerate. So this is what it is about. So this is a cross cutting sector and we should play our role. If you fail to play it, we are failing to accelerate the attainment of the SDGs. This is what it is about. And why is this conference important? This conference is important because this conference held once every four years and it gave an opportunity to get in the same location, the same venue, ministers, regulators, operators, private sectors, investors, to have all the ecosystem of the ICT to come together and discuss and create consensus and create direction where everybody will go in the converged manner to actually achieve the goals in the development of ICT as a level of the countries, as a level of the regions and globally in the world. What is your overall view of the deliberations that have been taking place here at WTVC? I must say it is beyond my expectation because we went very far beyond the administrative side of the conferences. We have fabulous side events that are really talking about development. We have a side event on the emergency telecommunications. We have side events on universal health coverage. We have side event on agriculture. We have side event on a small island development state. We have side event accessibility where we get all the stick order on a natural platform to see how we can do. Really, I would say, and when you see the people who attended those meetings and the varieties, the different views and how they converge, it was really, I think that I feel proud of organizing the side event because they brought together the real people to talk about the real issue, not just to discuss but at the end come up with conclusion to go back and use together to make a difference in the lives of people. Now looking at the plenary sessions here, what are the expected outcomes of WTDC 17? For me, we have two kind of expected outputs. The first is, will be, of course, the text, I would say, the legal, not the legal, the report output in terms of reports. One will be the declaration, and the declaration is the ITU community and ICT community talking to the world, telling the world what we plan to do for this role to be a better place. And you have the strategic plan where actually we're getting down to business to say how strategically we are going to implement the declaration. The second document, and the third document is the operation plan. The action plan is coming down to say every day on daily basis what are we going to do to fulfill the strategic plan in order to fulfill the declaration we are telling people outside. So these are the three main documents. But I would like to go beyond that. These are texts. But beyond that, we gather so many people here. We gather more than 1,200 people coming from more than 130 countries, companies, investors, and all those come together with the result of their discussion that never may not appear in those texts. These texts are just fantastic and incredible for what we're going to, how we are going to shape the future together because the most important is to shape the future together. All the stakeholders to get together, to shape the future together. This is one of very important achievements for this conference. We've had some extremely positive feedback from the ministers and from the private sector and all of the guests that have been in the studio here. We wish you the very best for the last few days of the conference. Thank you very much. I think I let me use this opportunity also really to express my deepest gratitude to the authorities of this country. All those who have been involved in the preparation in the running of this conference, they just did a fantastic work. This is one of the reasons of success because the facilities put our disposal are just fantastic. And I wanted to ask you, finally, is there a key message? Is there something that's really struck you from this conference that you would like to impart to of course everyone who's here, but there are wider audiences as well? My key message is let us just go and do it and do it well for the betterment of the world. I sit here and empower that. Senator, thank you very much indeed. Thank you.