 Good evening to all stakeholders joining us today. We are live from Geneva and we will be talking to some of the high-level track facilitators who facilitated the high-level policy sessions with us here in Vices Forum 2003. So I'll start with Karen representing the technical community from IEEE. Karen, what were the key takeaways of your high-level policy session? Thank you, Tenjali. You see, I facilitated the high-level session on trust and security and ICTs. And what I was really amazed with is how many of the panelists representing countries from all over the globe were working on something very, very similar in terms of addressing the policies, the processes and procedures they needed to address. How do we establish trust in our environment? How do we protect what is going on? And then how do we work with others to enable that? So really establish the government-private sector partnerships in moving things forward. It was a wonderful discussion and I think a lot of really important information that was shared. So working together for a collaborative framework for a secure environment. Thank you, Karen. So Abdul Karim, you had a very, very interesting panel and what were your key takeaways as a high-level track facilitator? Thank you very much. For me, as one of the high-level facilitators, the major key takeaway is that we need to work together, especially in terms of issue that has to do with internet connectivity around the world, issue that has to do with global climate change, that these are issues that has to be resolved by everybody working together. So that is the one of the key takeaway for me, that we need a multi-stakeholder model. We need to ensure that everybody is actually doing something about it and that is the only way we can actually get to where we want to get to. Thank you. Thank you, Abdul Karim. So multi-stakeholderism, it's at the heart of the WISIS process, right, since its inception and it is our, we strive to ensure that, you know, all our sessions are multi-stakeholder. So did you have a nice stakeholder balance and regional balance and what did you feel about the representation? Yes, my panel was actually quite represented widely. We have people from, we have a speaker from Estonia, from Sweden, from Tanzania, from Falkute, Uawe. So it was actually a wide representation of group of people. Different stakeholders were represented well on my panel and majorly one of the things that I really gained from that panel is that just that we need to work together and that is one of the essential things that a lot of these issues are just because we're trying to work alone and when we don't work alone we try to work together then we're able to work far. Thank you, Abdul Karim. So I think WISIS forum provides a great platform for that to collaborate and to work together and to forge new partnerships. I'd like to move on to Evelyn representing the universities, academia sector. So Evelyn, you also had a very diverse panel. So what were the main trends and takeaways from your panel? Thank you very much Chitanalli for this question. I was facilitating a high-level session on ICT for development and also climate change and well there are many opportunities that we discussed reaching from climate change but also health and education, e-governance also for the provision of public services and well I was really amazed also by the diversity of views represented it from different stakeholders all around and it really showed up again the the need to collaborate between governments private sector also civil society the importance of youth was outlined and really also to take action like to commit to our words and and move forward all together like in the sense of not only digital transition for economic development but also making it green and socially responsibly responsible like that we all have to move together there. Excellent we have been promoting you know intergenerational activities at the WSIS forum and the WSIS process well in alignment with the decade of healthy aging we've been working on highlighting the role of technology in older persons lives so also getting the youth together with the older person so I think you had a very enriching discussion on inclusion so thank you so much for capturing it so well for us I'd now like to move back to Karen to share some concrete examples that you know stayed with you like were there any country or stakeholder experiences that stayed with you. Thank you yes there were there were several I think that that really resonated with me an example that the UAE provided on establishing a cyber security console so they could actually involve and engage in that public-private partnership and then the role of the console to actually inform the citizens within the country of security risks to work on um knowledge sharing and and capacity building so they're aware of how to protect themselves how to be secure and safe and then another example I found um really enlightening came from Thailand and that they they have a cyber security law in place but they're now re-looking at it to to refresh it to to make it a little more current based on you know the threats and the issues and that they're facing today and how do you better manage cyber security so that they're they're prepared to address it not only for their citizens but anyone that that might be engaged with Thailand that you know they can let them know what their positions are and how they intend to mitigate all of those threats that are they're happening out there. Thank you Karen Abdul Karim how about yours you already told us the diverse stakeholders in your panel some great examples you can share with us. Yes I think I would like to share about three examples and the first one was one of the example made by Huawei that it is not just for companies to make money it is for companies to also be responsible and ensure that they contribute to sustainability across the globe so that was one of the good examples and the other one was from Estonia where they said they don't just ordinarily collaborate with their neighbors they ensure that in their drive for digitalization they actually carry their neighbors along and the same example a similar example came from Tanzania saying oh they want to be the hub for East and Middle Africa and they are trying to ensure that whatever they are doing they are also carrying especially the land law countries around them they are carrying them along so that they would ensure that internet connectivity is better penetrated and also the issue of climate change is being addressed. Thank you Abdul Karim indeed so much to learn from each one of these sessions Evelyn let's move to you so some of the interesting case examples that you heard please. Yes there are two examples in particular that I want to share and the first one regards India where ICTs are used for like promoting education like making it more inclusive also from a gender aspect from a youth aspect because for many people it's difficult also during the COVID pandemic this problematic was of course more acute to actually attend high quality schools, universities also trainings and ICTs really can play a huge role there for making it more inclusive and the second example is from Ukraine where the government with like with the with e-governance they really managed to even in times of crisis like under very adverse circumstances they used ICTs to uphold their public service provision like if you have to do submit documents if you need anything from public service any contracts any documentation from civil registry whatever so they managed to do that with e-governance under really difficult and adverse circumstances and I think that merits to be explored much much further like how ICTs can increase the resilience even of public service provision. Thank you Evelyn so we heard from all our high-level track facility today that ICTs versus action lines play a crucial role in advancing the achievements of the sustainable development goals so each of the different sessions whether it was cyber security whether it was climate change whether it was about the the sustainable agenda they are highlighting the role of ICTs in achieving the 2030 agenda for sustainable development thank you very much for being here today thank you thank you for having us