 We're here at ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok and I've got the great pleasure of being joined by Mr Tari Pekko, who is Chief Executive of the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority, or BOKRA. Mr Pekko, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you for inviting me to the interview. I'd like to start off by talking about the events theme, embracing change in a digital world. Where do you see the biggest opportunities in that change for the industry and for society? And what are the biggest challenges in your opinion? Well, I think we're coming from a traditional voice technology now moving into the cloud. And I think at the end of the day really what is even more critical is that the speed of the internet will be the way to go. And in terms of the digital economy, I see that the rest of the world is actually moving in that direction. So there is no sort of like the rich or poorer, but one thing that one can actually embrace is that once you've got the human brains and people can do what they believe is right, it can be taken to the next level. And how is Botswana embracing that change? Because we have developed the national broadband strategy, and this national broadband strategy is to ensure that we have a clear path as to exactly what we need to do to embrace the digital economy. And we expect that in the next two years or so we'll be able to tap into this phenomenal change in our life. And I think one of the things that we've been very ambitious is that in terms of the internet speed, we've made it very clear that the bare minimum that people can have is 10 megabytes moving forward so that we can have a high speed technology moving forward. So broadband is very much key for you? Broadband is very much key because the country is huge and what we want to do is to connect the society throughout and just to make sure that at the end of the day there is a defined path or strategy as to how best you can actually get everybody moving forward. Because of course I presume there's a big difference between the cities and the rural areas? Yes, there is. I think the concept of the digital divide it's more important that you know you got the rural and you also have the urban. And we want to have one country connected by the technology. And you know our government has actually invested heavily on the undersea cable or submarine cables both in the east and in the west. And these high speed cables they will be able to ensure that we give the last mile to the community. I think that's really the crack of the matter to make sure that the last mile and how do you do it and the challenge is that how do we do it and training people will be a good thing moving forward. It's always that last mile that's the most difficult, isn't it? Yes it is. I wanted to ask you finally in terms of attending events such as these what's the value of attending events such as ITU Telecom World? There are about three things actually. You meet people that you have never met before and there's a very very robust debate here. People actually saying things that you know they can assist you to take the you know your own country moving forward. In the last debate that I actually participated in I mean I was asked a simple question what is it that you would like to have? I said you know content and application is the way to go. But when you say content what is it that the people in your own society want and the technology that comes with it? Can you apply it to be used in the same society that you're in? And again you know it's a holistic of issues here and one thing that I think was very very pleasing was just to see people actually coming together debating matters that we never thought that would be debated. Mr Peko thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you very much. It's been a great pleasure. Thank you.