 Okay. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Are you ready? Okay. I would like to welcome you to the joint academia Argentina and then the PDT-side event on academia for SDGs. You know, converse the ICT ecosystem today, as you heard a lot from the oldest last couple of days from telecommunications, health, finance, education to agriculture. Academic wealth of the knowledge and the scientific expertise through innovative partnerships has been well recognized at the ITU at large. As a result, we ITU have a growing number of academia and the research institutes, so we have now some 150 academia members today. In order to meet and serve better the needs of academia members, various collaborative platforms and then products have been implemented such as ITU Academy, including over 30 centers of excellence around the world today and then projects engaged with academia members and the study on ICT-centric economic growth, innovation, and the job creation which has been launched yesterday. This side event is one of many other products and services for academia members. So two main objectives of this event are first to advocate and encourage more ITU academia membership through sharing experiences of Argentina and Iran and to share the cases, studies, and innovative initiatives from academic communities, meaning to distinguish the panels today. So before inviting speakers and then distinguish the panels the first and then let me invite Mr. Tori Goye who will actually convey a message on behalf of VDT director. So Mr. Tori Goye please. Excellencies, distinguished delegates, good afternoon. On behalf of Mr. Sanu, director of telecommunication developing bureau, it's my very pleasure to open this side event, academia for SDGs jointly organized by government of Argentina and ITU. First of all I would like to express my sincere thanks to government of Argentina for hosting World Telecommunication Development Conference 17 in such a beautiful city of Buenos Aires and also Argentina's commitment as a key ITU partner in fostering the involvement of over 20 national academic institutions. Allow me to introduce Mr. Hector Huiti, secretary of ICT, the Ministry of Modernization Argentina. It's a great honor to have you with us today. Within the diversity of stakeholders in a converged ICT ecosystem as Mrs. King mentioned, not only telecommunications, we have a range of collaboration on health with the WHO, finance with the private sector, education with UNESCO, agriculture with FAO and others. There's growing recognition of the importance of bringing academic wealth of knowledge and technical expertise into the work of ITU through innovative partnership. As a specialized agency of United Nations, ITU is very unique. Our membership is based on treaty, member states. We open membership for private sector sometime back, it is called sector members and unique position is we open members for academia. That is a very unique position. So I wish to highlight academia fosters innovative and sustainable solutions by providing space where talent, research and technology come together to solve the world's most pressing challenges. Academia is an important enabler of sustainable development. I am pleased to say that many academia and research institutions work with ITU and we now count around 150 ITU academia members and Argentina is one of the most significant participants. We have developed various collaborative platforms and products such as ITU Academy and joint research publication on ICT-centric economic growth, innovation and job creation just mentioned by Mrs. Kim, which was launched yesterday. So I encourage everyone here today to get inspired and seek new ways to strengthen collaboration for sustainable growth. Thank you very much. Thank you very much Mr. Tori Gohe. Now I am very pleased, I open very honored to invite Mr. Hector Houshi and the Secretary of the ICT of the Ministry of Modernization from Argentina for his keynote address. Mr. please. Thank you very much. Deputy Director, members of this panel and public from the audience, good afternoon. It's a pleasure for our government to host and organize with the ITU this side event. As I mentioned yesterday during the high-policy statement one of the main projects of Argentina inside the ITU was to promote the inclusion of the academic, the incorporation of the academic as a member of the union. And we will refer to this a little bit later. Just one thing I want to say before going to my presentation is that my apologies to the members of the panel because due to the reason of my duties I will have to leave probably before the end of the panel sometime before so my apologies in advance to all of them. Then there are several priorities among the SDGs for the Argentine governments that could be considered directly linked with the academia. I will mention some of them, foster research and development. The Argentine government aims to duplicate public and private investment in research and development over the next years to increase companies productivity and promote quality job creation, foster research in collaboration with specialized organizations, university and private sector. Higher and university education encourage professional education articulated with other higher education modalities. Federal network of sustainable cities. We need a change of paradigm in the local management of Argentine cities and municipalities to incorporate sustainability concept in the government planning. In this respect we are working on different action lines, waste management, biodiversity, public spaces, energy, water and environmental education. Gender policies implement policies that ensure humans participation equal leadership opportunities and decision-making in public life. Environmental care, implement tax for the prevention and attention of environmental catastrophes, federal plan for environmental monitoring and control, the creation of a federal agency for waste management and industrial reconversion and universal waste generation programs and plan for the development of the ICT sector. The Argentine project regarding the incorporation of the academia to these activities and that led us also to incorporate the academia to the ITU is that we understood that one way to comply with the SDGs goals is by integrating precisely the academia. In that sense resolution 169 of the year 2010 approved the admission of the academia, universities and their associated research institutes to participate in the work of the sectors of the union. The secretary of ICT encouraged the participation of universities and national research institutions in order to promote human capacity building with a high level of expertise in information and the communications technology. This project will be continued during the next two years that is to say 2019 and 2019. The goal for Argentina is to produce skilled professionals in the fields of ICT, build human capacity with a high level of expertise in ICT, provide academic to support the task of the secretary for ICT and stimulate employment continuity of the experts from the national state and research institutions. This will allow the academia and research institutions to participate in the development of global standards and to be in touch with the discussion of those standards, establish a relationship with regulators, the industry all around the world and exchange opinions, knowledge and experience with multiple stakeholders. And then I would like to refer to some of the results obtained during the past years through this participation of the academia in the ITU, 24 national universities of Argentina enrolled in the ITU, 35 schools of those universities participated actively in the research and different investigations, careers of telecommunications engineering, informatics systems and medicine, 140 professors and researchers participated in the work in the works of different study groups evaluating documents through remote participation and meetings in person, 29 professionals participated in study groups in face-to-face meetings in Geneva, UK, Canada and New Zealand. An special mention was received at the Caledon scope 2015 by the Aeronautical University Institute for their project vulnerability of rather protocol and proposed mitigation. An special mention was also received by young authors by the regional faculty of the technological national university for their project smart dot bell, an ICT solution to enhance inclusion of disabled people. Five professionals participated in the 2015 World Radio Communications Conference. The national university of La Plata was selected as an ITU center of excellence for the Americas region in the field of cyber security. Two professionals as editors of a new standard of final documents of the meetings, the national university of La Plata won the 2016 WSEI's championship award for their project e-waste ecological approach to the digital age and finally Argentina was the winner of the 2016 WSES award for the projects fostering the integration of Argentina academia in the activities of the ITU. Finally and as I just mentioned during my speech we want to renew the agreement with the ITU. We have already sent to the offices of the ITU the proposed amendment for the continuity of this program during the next few years taking advantage of the funding that we have allocated in the ITU. Don't cross the bridge before arriving to it. Things may happen. No but it is we have the commitment of the ministry that has authorized the continuity of this project with some small amendments during the next 10 years where we are going to give priority to the universities that have been very actively in the last years. So the program again will continue with respect to receive the comments from the ITU in order to prepare the final document and sign it as soon as possible so we can restart with the program in January of the next year. Thank you very much. Excellent to use, Mr. Wesee. It is actually what you are looking forward to hear from this event. This is in fact an exemplary model from actually a member, especially government, which encouraged actually academic members to become ITU academic member and to engage with all these activities that is actually just mentioned from project and hosting center of excellence and so on. And then I'm really glad to hear that he's a reconformation and a commitment to continue this kind of support extended to 20 plus universities in Argentina. I wish other countries to follow your models please. Thank you very much. Okay, next another exemplary can be the shared from Excellency, this Dr. Marcazi from this Iran who is the Deputy Minister. So I would like to invite the doctor from the Iran to share your exemplary at the practice with us. Dr. please. Okay, dear Dr. Kim, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for providing this opportunity for me to have a short talk here. First of all I would like to thank higher Excellencies from the government of Argentina and IUT authorities for putting together this very important and very interesting conference. Let me start with a short statistics about the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran has more than 1.6 million square kilometers land with about 80 million population. 65% of them are under 35 years old. So it's a good demographic from for ICT as a market, as an emerging market and situ and environment. We have 63,000 kilometers of fiber optic as backbone with a bandwidth of 10 terabits per second. So and also 50% of the total network traffic in Iran is local. That's because we have almost a good level of internal content, although it's not it's far from sufficient right now. In terms of network 800 cities in Iran are already equipped with 4G and LTE networks and 900 are waiting to be upgraded to 4G. They are 3G right now. 27,000 villages have access to broadband. Iran is a vast country so it's very challenging to have all the villages access to network but it's happening actually there. 57% of the population have already access to broadband and the penetration rate of mobile is about 140%. It's good to know that more than 120,000 Persian applications are on local and international app stores right now. And despite the sanctions there are many local services with millions of users in place right now including photo and movie sharing, drive hailing, e- commerce and also things like IPTV app stores just to name a few. Despite such remarkable achievements we are still concerned with the lack of exposure of Iranian companies and universities to international competition and also limited access of those two international markets. So we want this to be overcome in the future hopefully. In terms of academia more than six Iranian University are ranked between 120 to 200 worldwide in the ICT related disciplines so we have almost good universities there. More than 250,000 graduates every year come into market probably they are looking for jobs and they cannot find good ones of course in ICT related disciplines. The number of Iranian University which are member of IUT, ITU is now one and it will be increased to six by the end of year. We believe in the importance of universities in providing the fundamental knowledge and skills in overcoming the challenges for implementation of new ideas into market and also we believe that IUT is a game changer so it's very much of interest to us. This is the policy in our country. In order to help universities and startups knowledge based, knowledge based startup companies to cope with such challenges importantly the challenge of accessing hardware, accessing flexible testbeds, accessing research networks we are implementing an ICT park in Tehran. It would be facilitated by flexible testbeds. It would serve to universities as well as startup companies so that they can provide their own applications, their own services to the community. And the peculiarity of this ICT park compared with other 50 parks which are already established in Iran is just the flexible testbeds for IOT so IOT and cloud computing and things like that. Furthermore we have a plan for an international ICT city in a free zone near Tehran that would be a place for collaboration of international companies with their local partners to make clusters in ICT related disciplines. By ICT related I do not mean just network or software. It could be pharmaceutical as long as they are driven by ICT power and also logistics because we have a good airport in that area. It's a dedicated airport which can serve to ICT companies for example. And we hope that the study is undergoing right now and we hope that it will be triggered by next year starting the next phase of the project. In conclusion I would like to emphasize that our countries and communities are in desperate need for the underlying knowledge and the skills which brings in the power of future prediction as I mentioned in the yesterday meeting. Future prediction is instrumental for all communities and countries. If they want to keep their position they don't they want to shape their future so they have to be equipped with the power of predicting the future and this is what ICT will bring about in the future and right now. So that would be that would prevent the increasing digital gap and eventually achieve help us to achieve our sustainable development goals. For the green future of the world I think the role of academia and knowledge-based companies is not only profound but vital. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you very much Vice Minister. This is the leadership that we are looking for like Argentina and then Iran who are actually supporting their kind of academicians who can be a pioneer for the startups for innovation ahead for the future. So before actually moving on to next session is there any very urgent question maybe one or two questions addressed to the ministers, vice ministers and then secretary from the Argentina and Iran respectively because secretary just may leave soon later on so if not I'm just moving on then yes and yes there's another academicians from Nigeria. Can you kindly identify who you are so that the participants can know who you are? Yes please if you can. Thanks. Thank you. My name is engineer Charles Chike Assard Nigeria University of Nigeria and Sokandole University that has written with ITU in Nigeria. Our particular interest to the Argentina and even Iran experience was the government deliberately involving or encouraging the academia and particularly to be part of ITU and others. How did you do it? Did you cost them or did they require a request from you to support them? What were the strategies that you use because we are having difficulties in getting the government to be giving us necessary support on one hand and even our own government is not so desperately interested like what two of you have presented. What strategies did you use to kind of get the universities involved or appetise them to be involved in that level? I don't know whether my question is very clear. I'm just trying to know the strategies you adopted. Thank you. Thank you very much. So maybe the secretary from the Argentina can share your commitment how it can happen. Thanks very much. Clearly there was a decision from the high level government to encourage universities to participate in this, to join as members of the ITU. The first step was clearly to convince the ITU to allow universities to participate as members state with some requirements that make it possible for them to participate as members. Then once they approved what was obtained by the meeting of 2010, the BPP of 2010 in Guadalajara, then the government invited the different universities starting by careers linked very closely with the ICT to participate and the government provided and still provided during the term of this project funding for these universities to make them possible to participate in these projects and identifying projects in which both academia and the government were interested in. And as it happens with other issues, we start by a few, but once the new spread or around the academic community more and more universities became interested in participating in this process and the problem that we may face in a near future is that perhaps we have more interested academic institutions and research institutions than the ones that we can reasonably manage because of problems of funding. But I think it was first of all, it was a decision from a high level government to encourage this process to have of course, as I mentioned, the cooperation and the agreement of the ITU as a first step, something that has already been done, so for any country now it's more easy to follow the path and then to convince the different levels of governments to allocate funds for this project. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your kind explanation how it happened in Argentina, which can be a model for the other countries. To save the time, I can just move on. And then again, because of lack of time, maybe we can just entertain with all these panels first and then we can have some kind of the interactive dialogues at the end of this, all these panels being intervened if you kindly agree. Okay, so with that note, maybe let me start with Dr. Ler from MIT USA, who will share on ICT for STGs, especially the book that we launched yesterday. He is one of the key editors together with Dr. Sarapath, who is present here. So let me invite this Dr. Ler for your inspiring experience. Dr. Ler, please. Sorry, it's a pleasure to be here. It's a pleasure to be in Buenos Aires. It's a wonderful experience for me as an academic to be at this is the first one of these conferences I've been to, but I've been following the ITU's work for quite a number of years and it's wonderful to be here. I believe very much in this work. I have some slides. Oh, there we go. Okay, right. So if you were at the book launch yesterday, I'm not going to be repeating my comments there. The book actually exists. It's actually a real book and you can download it. There's a link there and if folks want these slides, I'm happy to share them. We're trying to get this panel so we can get as much discussion as possible. Sorry. So I'm going to go through this fairly quickly. The focus of the book is to try and understand a broad coverage of what are the different ways in which ICTs can affect and help support the Realization Strategic Development Goals. And part of that is to have reached a common understanding of what are the things that ICTs do and to take that snapshot after the 25-year anniversary of the ITU Development Bureau. One of the key things is that we're moving beyond focusing on just ICT infrastructure as we realize that the effects of ICTs are going to be global and affect all sectors, all nations, everyone. And there's no avoiding this. So even if you're in a sector or you're in a country that has very low development of ICTs, you will be impacted by what other countries do and what other companies do and what happens in the ICTs because they amplify, they accelerate and they augment change. They can create new opportunities for markets. They can also create new sorts of problems. The evidence, the academic evidence that's accumulating is that there's a strong potential for positive economic and social effects. So yes, it can add to economic growth. Yes, it can create jobs. Yes, it can make all kinds of new health care services, financial participation, more efficient businesses, addressing new markets. It can do all of those things. But none of those things just come guaranteed. And there are also harms. And I think recognizing what those harms can be and how they can also be associated with things not necessarily caused by ICTs but enabled or accelerated or amplified because of ICTs. And that's all sorts of digital divides. These will never end. They'll always be something we're trying to address and solve. So this is going to be a moving target. We've got problems like e-waste. We have bigger problems with things like climate change and potentially lost sovereignty. What we need to do to realize the goods and mitigate the bad requires identifying all the complimentary pillars. I spent a lot of my time worrying about what happens in the ICT infrastructures. And obviously, we need things like mobile broadband, but we need a lot more than just mobile broadband. We need things like clouds. We need the new sorts of capabilities that come with things like Internet of Things and Smart Cities and all of that. We need an innovation friendly business and legal environment. A lot of that is going to be things that are related to policies that don't directly affect the ICT sector, although there will also be lots of ICT sector specific policy things that have to be changed and addressed. We need to have the skilled workers. And having the skilled workers is not a static thing. You're going to need to basically have these people be able to adapt and change to the market needs. And we need public policies that are integrated across the whole spectrum from the top down and from the bottom up that will promote inclusive and sustainable the changes and will manage the adjustments because the adjustments to the new world are not going to be simple and easy. They're going to destroy old sorts of jobs and expertise. And those workers need to be retrained if they're going to be able to participate in the benefits for the future. So this really is a global challenge. And the ITU is one of the preeminent institutions to try and help coordinate that. And that means getting all stakeholders both within and across nations and obviously academia is one of the important stakeholders, especially as a timeframe over which new knowledge needs to be integrated into practical decision making today as we get the data to the researchers so the researchers can make sense of it and then can help inform the policy. And so, you know, the effort of trying to integrate academics is incredibly important. And it needs to be very multidisciplinary within the academy. I'm an economist. I sit in a computer science and artificial intelligence lab. Part of what I'm trying to do is get engineers talking to lawyers talking to politicians and other economists and sociologists to try and understand how to design these technologies so that the policies and the technologies can co evolve. This is my last slide. This is from a paper that recently came out by some Microsoft researchers trying to trace the trends of what's happened in information technology. If you look at in terms of the sharing of science and so these guys scanned data on patents and all that and there's lots of questions you might have about whether or not they did this the right way or not. But I think the essence of the picture is true. What you look at there in the green is you see that a highly concentration 100 years ago in terms of where the the scientific community was and who was sharing with whom. And what you see with the blue lines is that you've seen a lot more sharing around the world as the scientific community has become much larger, much more collaborative, much more integrative. But you also see that we'd like the whole world to be blue and we're far from having seen that. And I think that this effort that we're starting here is part of trying to promote that. So with that, let me stop. Thanks. Thank you very much, Dr. Rae. In fact, let me just announce one information. Our discussion is actually webcasted. Just be mindful what you're also talking and then discussing in our session. Another actually maybe associated the announcement is this book, how the copy of this book is available at ITU bookshops in the minus two. So if you are interested, you are welcome to have the book. Okay, so as I said, in terms of Q&A, I will just invite at the end of this oldest panel's intervention. So Maya, the second panel will be Mr. Cosentino from the University of the National Valgrano from Argentina, who will share on the attaining STGs through innovation from the academia, please. Thank you very much. Thank you. Well, thank you. Thank you to all of the stuff here from ITU and the government. Also, they don't have the team of the city. Well, what I'm trying to explain, I will go faster, so faster than your seat belt. We don't have too much time. But the objective of this presentation is trying to set up the guidelines. But we understand it's the way to achieve the STGs through the... Hello? Oh, I can. Sorry. So what is this definition of sustainable development? Traditionally, when we talk about development, we think about the evolution of thumbs-in to thumbs-in better. But it can be a group we say in three pillars, okay? These three pillars are the base of the sustainability. The base are pillars or sets as a family of elements that we have the environmental, we have the economical, and we have the social role of each of the sets. So what we have there is the intersection of these sets forming what we call the sustainable objective. We say that something is sustainable if meet the three of them. If we have each of them, you can see in the slide, you will have different things and different kind of development, but not sustainable development. So we have now what we call the first network. This is a system. The difference between a set and a system is that the elements inside are related to each other, okay? So we have a system of elements related to each other forming a sustainable development. But why do we need innovation and why do we need to innovate to have a sustainable development? Well, we need a sustainable development based on the idea of going, as Newton said, going where everybody went and see what anybody see. So this is a set of processes. It's not a spark in the middle of nothing. It's a process. It's a link of networks. It's a situation that brings us to a better lifestyle. So how do universities take an important or principal role here? Well, as I think from classics in Greek or Florence from Renaissance or Paris in 19th century or even now Silicon Valley, they have something in common. They have an environment, an innovation environment set. I mean, they have places where people can go to think and talk to each other, share ideas, research, do agreements. So this innovation environment, we think is the key for achieving the sustainable development goals. So why university is the key? Because it's in the center of the research, the education, the agreements, occurs. So that's why academia is very important and this project of the ITU is very important. How is the power of this network? Well, I define the power of the network as the number of connections that we can create. If we are three person, we can set a small polygon and triangle. We have three connections. But if we have four persons, we have six connections. So the power of the increase of communication and sharing ideas, sharing innovation, increase in quadratic waves. See? It's not linear. That's why the power of the networking. That's why ways is very important. The crowdsourcing technologies. That's why Kickstarter, as a crowdsourcing technique, we have even the MIT has its own collective intelligence team. So the collective intelligence, the networking today with Chesu Lee, we were talking about this in a previous meeting, is so critical for innovate and for evolution. So what do we need to innovate? We must fail as part of the process and it must be learned in the university. We need to understand that failing is a step in moving forward to the innovation. From south ends of startups in Silicon Valley, just once or tenth succeed two years later. So we don't need to see a fail as a problem. We need to see the fail as an asset, as an experience. According to Churchill, success consists of going from failure to failure, failure without loss enthusiasm. And this is another thing important that we have, we need to have an innovation. We need to have enthusiasm. We need to have tolerance of failing and we need to have curiosity. All of them must be encouraged in the university. University needs to teach to the students on how to be a passion on the topic that they are starting. What brings this innovation? Bring the information age. Transform the episodic series to movies. We changed it from a picture to a movie. We have connected services and products. We went from corrective maintenance to predictive maintenance. We went through descriptive situations to prescriptive situations. This is a key. This is a key that we have to keep in mind. We are in a connected society and why is important this age that we are living together? We move from the labor intensive through the capital intensive and arrives to the knowledge intensive. If you see the progress of the humanity is exponential now. Why now and not before, 10 years before or what is happening now just to have a context? We have a combinatorial effects of multiples technologies in his maturity. We start to talk maybe about data meaning 15 years ago but with data meaning with machine learning can do today, cannot did it 15 years ago. So and this combinatorial effects is leveraging and amplifying our possibilities to explore new solutions and add value to our data. In this chapter what we have is IoT and I will go just to the examples and finish. What is IoT? The IoT I would like to do again a small definition is the ability that we have to transform data and wisdom okay and act according to this wisdom. It's not just an automatism that before was machine to machine where a water tank goes down and the pump start because receive a signal. Now before to turn on the the power the pump we ask is there anybody in the house? No. Is the dishwasher working? No. Is the washing machine working? No. So don't pump, don't feel the tank because probably you have a leak in your house and you will get wet when you arrive. So this is the wisdom that Internet of Things brings to the traditional automatism or machine to machine. And we are working on two items reaching these sustainable development goals and one of them is smart irrigation asking the same is it going to rain tomorrow? No. Is the temperature forecast being higher for today? No. So well don't rain, don't irrigate. Say happen with the thermal medicine traceability. Today we don't have a real traceability of vaccines in regions for example in the north you know of our country where it's very hot or is difficult access so most need people need to have a kind of traceability to be sure that the vaccine that they are getting is well-conserved and the effect of this vaccine will be as much as good as possible. So just a conclusion the networking the power of networking is the key of innovation and the academia and its role through organizations, industry and government is the enabler to reach what we understand are the sustainable development goals. So sorry if I was very fast but I wanted to go all through all slides. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I cannot agree more this innovation must and then networking is the key. I will come back for any questions later on. So next the panel will be Mr. Bastista from the Octel who is the secretary general and then he will share the sustainable villages for development initiatives. So Mr. Bastista please. Good morning everyone. Thank you very much. It's about lunch time now so not to be in between you and lunch shall be very quick and very briefly thank you very much for the opportunity to exchange this project and these ideas with all of you. My colleague from the University of Belgrade was just easy up my presentation because he summed up very briefly and very well what is the aim of this project and for the past days and I participated in an initiative at the beginning of this week where we were talking about the problem to connect the unconnected and this is obviously one of the most important goals that we need to achieve in terms of development in terms of the work of the ITU and on the D sector but this project that I'm going to present now also focus on another problem which is what to do after connect people and this is for us Arctel which I'll say what it is in a few moments the key element for the development because I mean we've been fighting all over these years to connect the unconnected but somehow sometimes we forget to empower them to use correctly the access that we provide to them and the connectivity that we bring to them and so this project as you'll see it's basically focus on three layers of importance the first one of course is to promote the access and the connectivity the second one is to promote the digital inclusion when we enable them to have access to the internet and the third layer and the most important one is to work with the local academia to look with the local initiatives and to empower their ideas and their and their initiatives that can become either business either solutions and most of all correctly use of the ICT so briefly Arctel just for you to have an idea is the the association of the regulators from the Portuguese speaking countries we are nine in total and just for you to have a a bad idea we are present in four of the regions of the ITU this project in particular is being developed with our partner from from Germany it's Fraunhofer it's the biggest R&D association in Europe it has more than 66 institutes and 24 thousand employees and they also have an office in Portugal which is where we are working together with them so as I told you this initiative has three three layers the first one is to promote the access to broadband internet also the universalization of the use of ICT and digital inclusion and on the second layer the idea is to create a network of living labs although this this this network of living labs we use only local brainware so we'll work together with schools with universities because we're not only talking about universities we're talking about primary schools and elementary schools because that's where the brain begins to flow and that's where the new ideas can can begin as well and on the third layer we have the the promotion of data information exchange between all the different living labs and also a tool to enable big data and analytics concepts that you'll see in the next slide so for you to have an idea again Arctelts are the the country members from Asia Pacific where we have East Timor to Brazil in Latin America to Portugal in Europe and also other six countries in Africa as you can see we cover pretty much a huge part of the globe how is the project designed so basically we have an infrastructure a network infrastructure which is very low cost and very effective in terms of of worker operability and also in terms of maintenance and then based on on that infrastructure and the access that we provide to the internet we'll then start to build and to work together with locals in order to develop different projects in different areas of of different sectors of actuation just for you to have an idea so this is more or less how it works in network it's in a it's a mesh base it can go up to 200 megabits per second with less than two million milliseconds of latency it can reach up to a 200 kilometers area which is pretty impressive for the kind of infrastructure that you're using and most of all it's self-managing and works in license-free spectrum it can also provide as provide as a Y-Land a 3G 4G FM radio whatever you can of course on that you can use that network so as I told you is just a plug-and-play system low capex and low opex and high ability and potential and this has been proof of concept already because it's already being used not only in Europe but also in several countries in Africa and now to the most important part so based on the connectivity and access that we provide to two areas where there's no connectivity at all or there's a low connectivity and access we work together with the locals in order to develop potential ideas in order to develop projects that can be can have an impact on the real lives of the population this is just a top-of-the-art example this was developed also with with a foundation in Portugal but what you see there is a very low cost microscope which is printed on a 3D printer that uses a smartphone to automatically detect malaria parasites by using image processing techniques and smartphones so in blink of an eye in a matter of seconds you can have an analysis of the malaria disease in place saving lives equating the the treatment that you have to use and without waiting for several weeks until the result comes from a laboratory just for you to have an idea all this set including a laptop this is less than two thousand euros of cost another one it's also in in work now in Mozambique and South Africa is either chronic farming this is being developed with the local University of the University of Montblanc and also the University of Nelson Mandela in in in South Africa and although we may look at this and think this is too fancy and to develop for for a country like Mozambique for instance but it's not this is very low cost project using sensors and equating the use of the smartphones to the local knowledge of the populations we do not have to use fancy applications we use same symbols we use images that the the farmers can easily identify and use it very easily enhancing a lot their their capability to to work on their on their farms another area to related to environment as you can see with trying to cover all the sdgs and this is a simple system for turtle monitoring in Saint-Toumets. Saint-Toumets is a very small country an island in the in the Atlantic they have 160 000 inhabitants but they have the luck to have five of of the most important species of turtles as you may know this can be a very powerful tool to to improve tourism to improve income to the country so we're working together with the government and local ANGs and also with the University of Saint-Toumets to build this application to build this monitoring system that will for sure empower the the country in terms of tourism in in terms of incomes and this will have an impact on on the daily lives of the of the population just for you to to to have an idea in this particular case in in Saint-Toumets we're working together with the University where we found three young guys that will work on ICT and the only thing they have are two computers one PC and one laptop and they can do marvels they can do magic with those two piece of equipments and we're not talking about top of the art PCs or laptops we're talking about old equipment with a very low connection to the internet but the thing is and the truth is they nailed it and they are working hard they are doing all their best and they are doing things that normally we will only think that we could see on the developing world and this is not true so with with a little bit of investment we are able to to empower them and who knows the next big idea will come from one of those those heads another example in Saint-Toumets as well we're going to create a e-commerce portal in in in order to empower the local production of coffee and cacaoa and as you know in the developing world people are going nuts with all these biological products and natural products so they have wonderful productions of coffee and cacaoa so this will empower them to to sell overseas without being dependent of the big buyers and and the big corporate that that buy directly from from them last but not least in terms of risk prevention in musambique we're going to work together with the university of University of Montblanc from musambique and the local authorities in order to create a monitoring system for floods in the region where we're going to implement the ASC4D there's a conjunction of two rivers during the the raining season as you can imagine the the number of casualties is is huge they lost they lose their goods they lose their families their animals everything so basically what we're going to do is to develop a simple app which sensors along the river that will enable us to monetize the level of the of the wars and send a pre warning to the populations and to the authorities in order to save their lives and serve their goods also this will enable and if you remember what I I told you before this will enable us to to build predictions because we're going to collect all the data along the years that we're going to work there and this will enable us to to to have predictions and to to to avoid major crisis in the future so some some are up for the overview project areas use case that's one of the the main ideas of this this project bring connectivity to insufficiently connected villages and to extend the reach of specific projects or service in remote areas provide value service in that specific regions sustainability sorry use efficient and low maintenance technologies as you saw deploy service over the network to generate revenue and cover the OPEX and last but not least which is the point that I believe it's most important for this panel is to empower local ideas and coach them to become a business values local entrepreneurship and local economy this is the sum up of of the presentation just to conclude also to announce that together with ITU we have reached an agreement to from ITU to support us on those particular projects in Musubik in in Santome we're going to share the investment on that Arctel and and ITU the agreement will be signed I think just afterwards the the WTDC although the announcement will be made very shortly and I want to thank ITU for the cooperation to Arctel for the past years thank you very much for your attention thank you very much indeed is one of also very inspiring example how this partnership can work even better for bigger kind of a world ahead in our city ecosystem okay so next my panel is the Mr. Diaz from the University of La Plata of Argentina who reshared the case studies because of lack of the time if you can kind of limit to the two minutes maximum then then we can just go on to some kind of Q&A at the end of the session please Mr. Diaz please well I present the E-Waste project of University of La Plata that has a current agreement with ITU for a pilot plan for E-Waste the principal the E-Waste project started 11 years ago at our university and the main researchers and the main activities are recycling and reusing computers for social activities we use these computers in schools, rural schools welfare institutions and mostly as we are a university the people that are engaged in this activity are most students from different schools from computer science schools engineering schools and they are engaged in this changing how they can change society by acting by themselves also we have a repair courses on repairing PCs and on the use in this so we have several that's to document the activities but I think we have the project has reached more than 180,000 students from different institutions there were 400 donations and there have been more than 800 students from different schools on the courses of assembly and repairing PCs more than 200 events making awareness about this problematic of e-waste over 400,000 persons that have passed through these activities and we have over 200 press releases we also have some prices from the World Bank from the from the nation from the state and also the award last year for e-waste ecological approach to the digital age from the ITU and we've been pre-selected this year for the UNESCO and Japan education for the sustainable development we are running for it the project that we are describing today is more the cooperation for fostering our pilot project to more recycling and more we have courses on repairing PCs and assembling PCs but we are going to introduce urban recycles into these activities so this project is a starting point to do this we are in the project has is in development by now we are in the process of buying the different elements that were designed for this project we want to the project has started with different professors working on which kind of items to recycle to green to work and how you can get some economic benefit for the recycling the urban recycles of these kind of e-waste so we have to redesign the layout of our plant and we have we have to include these two spots the yellow spots are for the green and plastic researcher we have to reframe the other sectors and also we have a hard disorientation laboratory that's the two parts that are enhanced it also as the process of how we manage all the stuff the the yes these are the the equipment that we are buying are these it's the grinding machine that will be used in order to teach urban recycles we have several machines for doing a better job and also the sanitizing this for the software and hardware for sanitizing this Mr. Diaz because of lack of time actually other groups are actually going to start actually 10 minutes before so can you just more or less conclude in maybe one minute so if you can thanks well these are all the stakeholders of this project they are the the state of Buenos Aires chambers of recycling enterprises enterprises from the cycle enterprises for using their recycled products and also some provide ISP providers well we are in the stage of we are receiving the material so we are trying to end by this December and we expect that this will be in place by March next year so we will start in the activities next year we are with the current activities the activities resulting from this project we'll start in a March next year thank you okay thank you very much indeed the US is one of a very amusing issues and then this is one of the our study applications as well so I'm really encouraging everyone can involve in the the related the project so last the the panel will be actually a doctor we share better from the SCES so from the switch that she came all the way to join you to share about actually her engagement with us especially around achieving sustainable developing goals through ICT project so doctor and this Vesheva from Switzerland welcome thank you okay so thank you thank you for invitation thanks so I'm totally technical and I'm yeah in ICT Institute at HSSO so I will present you briefly how we we try to achieve sustainable development through ICT project so Swiss context is this in fact this is a federal law to work on sustainable development and this means in HSSO directives and this means in each school in each engineering school each university this means academic governments and then this means also we have some rules about professors and so about students so we try to work together and for instance in HSSO directive this is to include HSSO in sustainable development approach so this was written in 2014 and also HSSO should have positions such as responsible and citizen institution so this is a project this is a transversal project managed by the HSSO this was the end of project has a grant of 6 thousands CHF so you can see it on the on the website about school and university each domains we have some development new agents skill technology process so in real life how is it going in real life we have one week just before the beginning of the academic year we have one week just dedicated to sustainable development so every professor every student has to be here and has to share project or what they want to do for instance on it on professor's side we have a goal so this is the director who gives us a goal to include sustainable development in our courses we have to talk about sustainable development okay so we have to choose maybe for me I'm a woman so it's easier for me to talk with a lot of men about this another thing is to work and to develop project with students and finally about academic freedom the thing I just point about this we have the choice to work in certain area for instance we had a project with all the professor and me and the the customer was about yeah the customer was about working on shale gas and we had a big project this was something like 80 thousand euros so this was huge and we decided not to go with it this we this is the the academic freedom so some people agree with this other note but that's it and finally we have to to share our experience in sustainable development with students and they have to be at the end of their university they have to agree about sustainable development but in case they already are okay with sustainable development so just question is it sustainable development a constraint for us for for Europe this could be but no it's a way to innovation and real for instance this is a mast to refill buses this is a project called genilac which use the water of lemon lake to cool down or to warm up buildings and so you will see here for you you will have in UN nations small and then this is electronic this is new new way to electronic plastronic and that's it so thanks for your attention and then question thank you very much every country has a different kind of mode model to share but the certainly all these panels reconformed importance of infrastructure application in ICT ecosystem so I would like really encourage innovative ideas ways forward I really want to have some entertainment one or two occasions but there's actually another group say booked this room about the 30 minutes ago so I'm really sorry about this for interactive the dialogue so I can promise you because I'm dealing with academia membership so I will try to provide another network platform like this in the near future so welcome to join the next round of the networks thank you very much