 Thanks for joining us for WSIS Forum 2019 where we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the event and I'm delighted to be talking to Geetanjali Shah. She is WSIS coordinator at ITU. Geetanjali, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you Charlotte. Now I've mentioned that it's been 10 years since the start of the forum and you were there from the very start weren't you? So what has it turned into and tell us about the whole journey to where we are at today? Well Charlotte it's quite an amazing achievement but of course in collaboration with the multi-stakeholders we work with. We started with 600 participants in 2009 and this year we had more than 3000 participants at the WSIS Forum. So this itself shows that we've really been able to not only keep the interest of our stakeholders but add new stakeholders which is fascinating. We had new faces and new organizations, tech startups, new civil society organizations who are working on the ground making a difference, new UN agencies joining us. So the whole journey has been really amazing but of course the event belongs to the stakeholders. So we are just mere facilitators of the event to provide them with an equal and just platform. And one of the reasons behind its success is the fact that you constantly innovate, don't you? I mean this year you put in new tracks on sports, on youth and new services as well to make it more accessible and more inclusive. Tell us a bit more about that. Yes, you're right Charlotte. We are always looking to innovate to be as inclusive as possible. So we pioneered remote participation several years back and each and every workshop at the WSIS Forum can be followed remotely and people can even make interventions and they can be seen on the screen. We also had a physical sign language here for the accessibility track for the people with disabilities. And we also had several new services like we tried to explore remote captioning. And we are at a time when we have to look at providing services at a low cost. So we have to explore how technology can enable that. I'm just coming from the demonstration by the Ticondo Foundation. And basically the teams are exploring as to how sport can be presented as an enabler of peace and development. And they also shared with us how they are using technology more and more to ensure that technology is a component of peace, sport and development. So we added this new track on ICT and sport. We had a youth track like in fact it's just going on right now. There are a lot of youngsters at the entrance of the mobriand who are discussing why the engagement of youth is so crucial in UN processes. And it is very important for policy makers as well to understand that it is in a subject like technology, it is very important to include those voices. What's also interesting about WISIS Forum is how you bring all the different UN agencies together because collaboration is important, isn't it for you? Definitely Charlotte. WISIS is a UN process. And we work with more than 32 UN agencies to make this possible. WISIS Forum itself is co-organized by UNESCO, UNTAR, UNDP and the ITU in collaboration with the UN Regional Commissions and several UN agencies who are facilitating the different UN action lines. So you know it is a collaborative effort and we agreed this year that ITU and UNDP would be co-leading the United Nations Group on Information Society with the support of SCAP at the regional level who would be chairing, who would be a vice chair of the UNJIS to bring in the regional component. So yes, in fact WISIS process is a UN multi-stakeholder process. We all work together. So today the forum has become the world's largest platform for the ICT for Good Community. How do you see it evolving in the years ahead? So we are getting together here at the WISIS Forum to ensure that we are forging partnerships, building new collaborations and making sure that we are working together to have an impact at the grassroots level. Okay, Gitanjali Shah, thank you very much. Thank you.