 Welcome to Geneva and WSIS 2022 and I'm very pleased to say I'm joined by Mike Coden who's the CEO of the Global Coalition on Aging. Welcome, Mike. Thank you very much indeed for joining us. Thank you for having us. Nice to see you. Nice. Lovely to see you too. Tell us about the coalition. Well, thank you. So, we formed the Global Coalition on Aging about 10 or 11 years ago. I'm based out of New York, but we operate globally including all across Europe. We are a group of about 20 global companies, cross sector, technology, healthcare and pharma, elder care, financial services, consumer, who are committed to helping people in the world achieve a healthier aging. Which is a very important thing and how did you become involved with WSIS and its aims and objectives? Yeah. So, one of the things we undertook which is about two and a half years ago now was something we called the Silver Economy Forum which we held in Helsinki, Finland in collaboration with the Finnish government at the time that was assuming their EU presidency where aging was their theme. And one of the groups that came as part of the whole UN system was ITU and WSIS. And so, they started talking to us about creating what would be for the first time a track on older persons. The official term that UN uses, it very much aligned with the beginning of what has now become the decade of healthy aging part of the Sustainable Development Goals. And what are the opportunities and challenges that information and communication technology present for older people and aging populations? Well, I love the way you put it and I would in some ways challenge it because same as for everyone. I guess one of the differences obviously is that if you are 60 or 70 or 80, you're unlikely to have had the life experience, in fact pretty certainly you will not have had the life experience with digital technology as our children and grandchildren have. On the other hand, there's today 70-year-old probably had a blackberry when they were working 20 or 30 years ago. But there's no question that like with everyone else in society generally, digital technology can enable a better life, a healthier life, a more active life, a more fun and a happier life and focused on older persons as the UN calls us, you know, gives us a particular lever for that. It's one that we hear the digital divide and generally the digital divide for good reason refers to those in perhaps rich OECD countries like Switzerland where we are here, Geneva versus perhaps a poorer country, let's say in Southern Africa or parts of Latin America. The digital divide is also there from the standpoint of age demography. So it is true that a 70 or 80-year-old may not have as much facility with digital technology as a 25 or a 35-year-old. But it's also true that digital technology generally has not been applied to help the needs and the opportunities of growing old, particularly in the health and financial arena. Both sectors are ones that we think of huge enablers through better application of digital technology. And it's certainly one that has been used as one is younger, but as one ages we now look to WISIS to help us advance the progress in that area as well. Mike, thank you very much indeed for joining us. Thank you.