 Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. And I'm delighted to be joined by Madeleine Scherp, who's president of the Health and Environment Programme in Switzerland and Cameroon. Yeah. And you're from Cameroon. I'm from Cameroon. I'm married to a Swiss. So I'm living in Switzerland in Geneva. Excellent. And you told delegates here at the WISIS Forum a wonderful story about how when you were growing up in Cameroon, the internet really helped you see the world. Yes. When I was in Cameroon, I have made an abstract and I was invited in Kenya to present my abstract in the United Nations Environmental Programme. It was my first time to go there because I used internet to send my abstract. And with my abstract also I was involved with another people with networking that invited me to South Africa. I went to Senegal also, to Botswana, to Lesotho. And yesterday I spoke about my own experience to show how my life changed with internet because when I went to Lesotho, for example, I met friends there, people who become friends now. But they didn't have emails that time. So if they had that email in 2000, maybe now in 2016, I can't communicate with them. Without emails, I don't know, I think it's not easier to communicate. So yesterday I was very happy to say about that experience. And indeed, now you've actually returned to your roots and you're helping young Cameroonians use the internet. Yes. So in Cameroon, in Duala, in Calle Emergence, we gave them some materials, books on how to use internet and we have another school where we are involved. And we want also them to learn. So they are very happy to receive materials education to know how to use, how to create an email address, how to use internet in their life and to build their future. Because we think that they are very young and why not to give them that teaching now. So we intervene many times also by e-learning in internet to communicate with them also. And your program is not only about e-learning but also about health too. Exactly. So in health we are accredited, we have a permanent status at WIPO, what Internet Property Organization. And at this way we want to help them to understand how to protect their traditional knowledge. We want to say to them that they have a big background with the remedies, how the trees can help people to be in the good health. So they have to use these trees but they don't have to divulge all the information without knowing that this information is important to protect. So we learned how to share, how sharing of the benefits of traditional knowledge can be important for the both parties, those who are going to them for research and them who are the owners of the traditional knowledge. And of course there is so much traditional knowledge because Cameroon is well known as an environmental hotspot, Mount Cameroon. I was there and there was a bark of a tree which was actually used to help treat, prostate cancer treatment. So it's obviously a real resource in Cameroon all of this traditional knowledge. Exactly. We have a lot of resources in Cameroon. It's a big country and so we have a lot of tradition and Mount Cameroon as you said is very known and yes, we want people to raise their awareness on these issues, health and environmental issues, intellectual property, to strengthen another NGOs in Cameroon to strengthen them to understand better what this means intellectual property, how to protect, how to promote in which way who are the owners, who are the beneficiaries, how to share the advantages. Madeleine Chab, president of Health and Environment Programme in Switzerland and Cameroon, thank you very much for joining us. I appreciate your invitation and I'm very happy to speak with you. And do join us on the ITU YouTube channel for more interviews with experts from the world of information and communication technology at the WISIS Forum 2016.