 We're here at ITU Telecom World 2014 in Doha in the state of Qatar and I'm very pleased to be joined by Minister John Nasasira, who is the Minister for Information and Communication Technology for Uganda. Minister, thank you very much indeed for joining us in the studio today. Thank you for inviting me. It's very nice to see you again. Now, I'd like to start off by talking about the central theme here at ITU Telecom World 2014. This year is Future in Focus and I wanted to ask you what developments in technology, policy or business do you see as key to the near future? Well, ICT is always the future, the future because of the way technology changes. But what I see mainly now, first of all, technology, there is a lot of convergence in technology. And that convergence brings things like the Internet of Things, how do you handle big data? And these are really going to occupy us as countries, as regulators and of course as industry. And that brings around policy issues. What do you do with the digital divide that we have talked about for a very long time? How do you make sure that you protect personal data? And of course there are big issues about cybersecurity. So these are the areas I see myself as we have to address as we focus in the future. One of the key innovations, one of the things that are really in terms of ICT that has really made a difference in people's lives is broadband. I wanted to ask you, how can universal broadband be best achieved? I think we are happy that we are now talking about mobile broadband. And especially for me who comes from Africa, you know, where you have to take the raw areas, you have people in the raw areas. I think universal broadband is going to be achieved, both the fixed broadband, but in our case, even mobile broadband, in a number of areas. One, we need cheap devices and very practical devices, devices that you can use, even charged by solar and we need to roll out of course the infrastructure, which is an effort. But I think with the advent of broadband, 3G, 4G, LTE, I think that's where we should focus. And what about partnerships? Because of course we can't go and do this alone. What role do partnerships play for you? Big. You need investments, big investments. You need to share technology. And if we create the right environment and every environment, then we bring in partnerships, we bring in money, we bring in those who invest and those who invest bring the appropriate technology and partnerships are very key. So is that why you're here? I mean, ITU Telecom World is very much a place where everybody seems to be congregating here. Is that the value for you to attend an event such as this? Yeah, this ITU Telecom World is extremely important. As you know, we have just had ITU playing an important role, which was political, electing officials, electing the members of the council, electing the secretary general, the deputy, the administration. But now here you come, where people showcase the new technologies, you come to meet industry, what the products of the industries, you come to network, you form partnerships. So it's important to attend ITU Telecom World for those partnerships and for networking. Now there's a lot of movers and shakers here. I wanted to find out, have you got a message that you would like to impart to those people, the participants and delegates here at ITU Telecom World? Well, my message as you focus in the future, one, we have been talking about the global village and the only quickest way to make this global village is through ICT, is through the technologies that ICT has been able to bring. My message is in our case for Uganda, environment is set, we are ready for partnerships, we are ready for investors, because there is no way for the future without the whole world just being universal, the whole world that communicates. Thank you very much, Deeping with us in the studio today. Thank you very much.