 Welcome to ITU Telecom World 2017 here in Busan in the Republic of Korea. I'm very pleased to be in the studio today with the Honorable CDM Tunis who is a member of Parliament Minority Chief Whip for the Republic of Sierra Leone. Thank you very much indeed for being with us in the studio. It's a pleasure. Now I'd like to start off by talking about the theme of this year's ITU Telecom World is smart digital transformation. What does that mean for Sierra Leone? Yeah for us in Sierra Leone we believe that we are still behind. We've made the first generation, we've made the second one, third one, this is a fourth generation. For us to be here really is good for us and I believe that after here we ensure that we are part of the fourth generation so we will not be left behind. And what are the key smart opportunities that you see in the next five years and what do you think would be the key challenges for you? For us in Sierra Leone in the last four years we have done tremendously well in ensuring that there's serious investment in the in the ICT sector. We have landed our submarine cable. We have also rolled out our national fiber backbone. We also have now begun to connect schools. So for the next five years we are actually looking at e-governance, e-education, e-Ireculture, e-Health. And what about the projects or solutions you're exhibiting here? What's the role of SMEs in driving the digital economy in Sierra Leone? As I said we have been behind but like for this particular ITU Telecom World we have exhibited our fiber optic solutions. We will roll it out and now SMEs are capitalizing on that to open internet cafes etc etc. That's great and it's going well? Absolutely. It's going well and we are hoping that the connectivity will continue. Now you're basically exhibiting here at Telecom World. What's the value of exhibiting at this event for you and what are you hoping to achieve and what have you learned and what that has proved most exciting? A whole lot. It's a whole lot. For me the 5G Olympic thing I saw with the Koreans is so exciting and we also saw something, my team, myself and my delegation, we also saw something with the team from Rwanda on e-Ireculture. It's very very exciting and I believe that we have learned a lot and from here there's a whole lot. For example, even the connectivity itself, we have now found out that there are cheaper ways of doing it apart from the microwave. We have seen companies, we have interacted with companies and there are so many ISPs that we have interacted with and for me we will transform our society through them. We have invited a whole lot of them to our country and I believe that they will come over. That's great and finally what's the key message for participants at this event? My key message really is for the investors. We need investment in the ICT industry in our country. We have roll out our fiber optic and we have also met with a lot of investors here. We are hoping that they will come over to us in Sierra Leone and contribute and invest in our country. That way, as you know, the whole idea of I-Tutor Conward is networking. We have networked a lot and we are appealing to them to come to Sierra Leone to invest. The atmosphere is there, the laws are there for them. They are all protected. The country is very safe for investment. Which is the very best in the future and thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much to have me here.