 Welcome to the Global Symposium for Regulators 2023, GSR23 being held in Shamoshake in Egypt, where I got the great pleasure of being joined in the studio today by Sezo Noe, who is the Director of the Telecommunications Standardization Bureau for ITU. Mr. Noe, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Now, I'd like to start off by talking about regulation for a sustainable digital future is the theme for this year's GSR. Why is this important? Yes, as you know, the recent years, technological change is so rapid. New technologies are emerging and also that accelerate digital transformation. Digital transformation is creating a kind of the convergence in technological area as well as the business across industries, different sectors, different vertical industries. At the same time, it may create some associated convergence in the regulations, regulatory matters. So, it is important that we come together and discuss from the different views of different perspectives and views from the different stakeholders. So, GSR, this symposium provides such a venue are also the basically, GSR is focusing on the regulation, but it attracts the variety of the industry players. So, we have many stakeholders here. So, it's a very good place to discuss our activities so far. So, I believe that public-private partnership is also very important to realize such policies and industries, businesses. So, that's my views. Also, in general, regulations need to evolve in response to the market reality. So, this symposium gives global views for that evolution. You're the ITUT, the Telecommunications Standardization Bureau Director. How are ITU's technical standards supporting sustainable development and addressing the associated priorities of policymakers and regulators? Standards support innovation at scale as cost-effectively as possible. Also, that provides reliability and interoperability. Finally, ultimately, that creates a confidence to continue to invest in future technologies and future policymakers and regulators aim to benefit society as a whole. So, standards provide a strong tool to achieve that. ITU covers a wide variety of the areas for that. For example, a wide variety of the areas from the energy and mobility to financial services and agriculture and smart cities. As such, ITU standards contribute to the policymakers and regulators. Excellent. Manohar Samp, thank you so much for joining us in the studio today, and we look forward to catching up with you again very soon indeed. No, thank you for having me today. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And don't forget, we've got plenty more interviews on the ITU YouTube channel, as well as our SoundCloud channel, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. And for more information, go to www.icu.inc. Thank you very much indeed.