 Welcome to the WSIS Forum 2016. This WSIS Forum is crucial and extremely important as it is the first after the UNGA United Nations General Assembly overall review and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals. The UNGA overall review has asked the UN agencies and specially the WSIS action line facilitating UN agencies to review their work plans and to make sure that they are well integrated within the UN agency work plans. I'm joined today with our action line facilitators who are actually facilitating all the different action lines with all the different multi-stakeholders that they work with. I'll move on to our WSIS coordinator at UNESCO, Cedric. Cedric, what are the key priorities you see for UNESCO and all the different WSIS action lines that are facilitated by UNESCO? Thank you, Gitanjali. UNESCO is a co-organizer of the WSIS Forum and we're pleased to fully participate and to facilitate six action lines altogether and to also organize a high-level dialogue. You are right to point out that 2015 was a turning point year and we asked ourselves how to reorient, how to reorganize our work towards the SDGs and to implement the 2030 agenda and the outcomes of the WSIS Plus 10 review in New York just held in December of last year. And so we got together and all our action line meetings at the WSIS Forum, but one, are actually trying to meet and to work towards the SDGs. As an example, we have the SDG 16 where we brought four different action lines together on access to information, on cultural diversity, on media and ethics and asking themselves the SDG 16 is about inclusive and peaceful societies. How can in an interdisciplinary and sectoral interaction line way these SDGs be served? And I'm pleased to work with my colleagues on this jointly. Thank you, Cedric. In this regard to highlight the linkages of the WSIS action lines with SDGs, all the different UN agencies with respect to their mandates got together last year to produce a very relevant matrix that maps each WSIS action line with the different SDGs. I'm also joined here today by Ms. Hu, who is the action line facilitator for C9 media. Good morning, Ms. Hu. What key priorities do you see in the fresh priorities you see in the action line C9 media for this new era? Thank you. C9 media is a very distinct and special action in all the WSIS action line. In the past 10 years, we have been working with all stakeholders to promote a free expression online offline to enable free independent plural media system in the countries and also to ensure the quality information and diversified content to be curated in building the information society and also knowledge society as UNESCO vision. And now facing the SDGs, as we have just discussed in C9 session at this forum, we are discussing two indicators for the SDG 16.10. One is the safety of journalists, the other one is access to information. They feel actually it was quite much agreed by all the participants that action line media not only contribute to the one target of 16.10, but really it's crucial to achieve all the SDGs. Imagine without a free press, without free independent media to inform governments to monitor the activities on the ground, we couldn't invest any SDGs will be eventually achieved. That's how we see a media contribution to the overall SDGs as well. Thank you. Free and independent media is one of the key priorities for action line C9 media. We also have with us here today the action line facilitator C3 access, Mr. Bhanu. So Bhanu, what are the key priorities and the opportunities you see linking your action lines to the sustainable development goals? Thank you very much, Gitanjali. I think it is a pleasure to be here at ITU. There are two things that has happened. Something that we have decided to continue with and carry forward, let me phrase it like this. The inclusiveness and openness of knowledge will remain as a focus for UNESCO in this year and for the few coming years to come. But at the same time what we have done is we have somehow in a try to link the access with sustainable development goals. So for this one we have in fact taken one very important agenda which we are given to us by the world deciding on Paris agreement. So what we have done is in fact we have decided to take a very closer look at how access to climate information will change over the years and what new demands it needs to be brought in to bring this thing before the world. What we have done is we have identified that out of 17, 10 goals require scientific information to be given to them almost at a real-time basis. So from UNESCO's side we will be working very much to improve how the access of knowledge and information can become almost at real-time, almost as open as possible. And at the same time we will bring in the dimension of inclusiveness where citizen will play a very, very, very crucial and important part in this transaction of information and knowledge. Thank you. Real-time, open, just access to information. These are the key priorities for Action Line C3 access. We are also joined here today by the Action Line Facilitator of Action Line C10 Ethics. Mr. Paul Hector, what are the key priorities, opportunities for ethics at the Action Line C10 you have observed for the coming era? Thank you, Jitangeli. It's a pleasure to be here also. I think if we look around, one of the things we see happening, which is a trend, we have more and more people in more and more regions of the world coming online. We also see a lot of technological innovation taking place. So for example we have tools, new tools like for example artificial intelligence, we hear about robotics, all of these opening up really new possibilities but at the same time presenting unprecedented challenges. And so against a sort of backdrop where especially we're in a situation where information and knowledge increasingly are key determinants of people's well-being, key determinants in society's economies, the political landscape. We see that the ethical dimensions become very, very important because many of these changes, the technological developments, we're not quite certain how exactly they're going to impact us and how they're going to play out, how do we make sure that we can maximize the opportunities and at the same time mitigate harmful or potentially adverse consequences. And so because of these reasons, advocacy, awareness raising of these ethical dimensions so we can facilitate more and more public discussions about these trends, support for policy makers, we see many policy makers scrambling because again as my colleague mentioned there's a need for instantaneous or just in time responses and our policy processes have not really evolved to deal with the sort of much more rapid pace of response that's required. So again we need to build the capacity of our policy makers to adapt to the times. As I said many of these challenges are new, we're not certain what the impacts are, so again research becomes essential. So again research remains a very important pillar of this work and of course education. Again we need to build the capacities of persons so they can participate actively and we need to also reach out to more users, persons with disabilities, vulnerable groups because unless we can reach all of these persons and harness their potential then achieving the sustainable development goals will remain a dream. And so I see C10 as being a solid complement along with the work of other UNESCO action lines and also the action lines which are being managed by others in terms of helping to achieve the SDGs. Thank you Paul. So we hear that for Action 9 C10 ethics, research, awareness building, public discussions, capacity building is extremely crucial to make sure that the action line can help facilitate achieve the SDGs. We also joined here today by Mr. Preetam Malur who is the action line facilitator of Action Line C5, Cyber Security at the ITU. Good morning Preetam. Hi Gita Anjali. So we heard today about technological innovations, about ICTs, help facilitating the SDGs. My question to you would be how safe is this world for these technological innovations? What are the key priorities and the opportunities you see in this new phase? Thank you Gita Anjali and congratulations again on a really successful research forum. To answer your first question of how safe we are, I think we have a lot to do. So and in terms of defining priorities, this WSIS forum has clearly helped us a lot, guided us a lot. You know, of course the key message of the WSIS forum has been that ICTs are an enabler for achieving the sustainable development goals but the follow-up message in terms of security has been that obviously people will use it as an enabler only if they are confident that ICTs are trustworthy. So the importance of cyber security and therefore Action Line C5 has been underlined several times in several different sessions. And the stakeholders have also been very good in defining the priorities. I'll just run through a few. The most important priority is that people all agree that the SDGs are cross-cutting, so it affects different sectors. It's quite ambitious and it's cross-sectoral. So the dialogue also has to be multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder. And since we have more than four billion people offline, it's also important that when they start coming online, they are included in the dialogue. So what you need is an inclusive dialogue involving all stakeholders from all nations. The second priority which has come up is security shouldn't be an afterthought. Security should be by design. So when you're designing products, you're designing solutions to implement the SDGs, be sure you design security as a part of the fundamental design. The third priority is countries have been defining their national strategies for achieving the SDGs. They've just started, but there are many who've been announcing this. And we urge the countries to also define a digital agenda as part of this strategy. And as a core component of the digital agenda, they should define a national cybersecurity strategy. The third is we call for more adoption of international technical standards and also the importance of bridging the standardization gap. Because there have been empirical studies which show that adoption of international standards have a direct reflection on the socioeconomic well-being of a country. Another priority, I can list many, many priorities here. Capacity building obviously is an underlying priority. You need, there are many countries which need help with building the capacity in cybersecurity and organizational structures. For example, computer incident response centers. There are still 91 countries without a national cert. That's clearly a priority area. Awareness building, assessments, training. I can go on and on and on. In fact, the WSIS plus 10 high level event in 2014, the outcome document of that, where they analyzed the action lines and also helped define some other priorities is an excellent guiding document for us. Okay. Thank you, Pritam. Indeed, building a safe and secure world is crucial for any ICT for sustainable development projects to be successful. We thank all the WSIS action line facilitators who joined us today. This was the final interview talk show of WSIS action line facilitators. We heard from different UN agencies about the key priorities, about their key opportunities, challenges, and the work plans that they have for this upcoming year and for the coming years till 2025. We thank you for joining us and we hope that we will have you back in WSIS forum 2017. As WSIS forum is the perfect platform to get together, to learn, network, share, and for all of us to work as one in a multi-stakeholder format. Thank you very much.