 Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. And I'm delighted to be joined by the interim CEO of ICANN, Akrim Attala. Tell me, why is your organisation at the WISIS Forum? We're part of the internet ecosystem and we deliver on the physical layer of the internet, the addresses and the names and numbers and the protocol parameters that actually enable the internet users to find each other and to communicate with each other. We're hearing at WISIS Forum 2016 that the focus is very much on how information and communication technology can actually help achieve these 2030 sustainable development goals. So what role can your organisation play in that? So as I mentioned earlier, we are a key part of the logical layer for people to be able to connect with each other on the internet and because of that I think that our participation helps and us being informed about the SDGs also helps us contribute to their implementation. One of our programmes, for example, is the internationalised domain name. We just introduced now over 100 top level domain names to the root of the internet that are not in the Latin script, which means basically users can now implement or access the internet in scripts and alphabets and languages that are not Latin and in their own native languages. So that's a very powerful tool for everybody from the developing area where the majority of the newcomers to the internet are going to come from in the next few years. Exactly because the internet has always been something which perhaps is privileged to people who speak English rather than Chinese or Russian or some of these scripts. I would say that the majority of people that are using the internet today know how to deal or use multiple scripts at the same time, which means if you're Chinese you can use Latin characters, if you're Russian you can use the Latin characters and so it gives you the ability to use the internet because of the knowledge of how to use both characters together. When you are not capable of using the Latin script it limits what you can do on the internet. By providing these top level domains in the natural script of some of the developing countries it will enable the users there to use a single script to actually access their data and information and hopefully it will encourage them to add more content which will actually bring more people on the internet and that's our hope is that we help close the digital divide by doing the small step toward that. In your speech this morning during the high level forum you were mentioning the transition to IANA. What was the main message that you had to delegate here? So it's important to look at the issues that the SDGs are dealing with. A lot of them are global issues and it's important to know that ICANN is built on the multi-stakeholder platform where our community is comprised from all walks of life including government, academia, businesses, users, civil society so they all come together and actually make ICANN what it is today. The message that we are bringing here is that the community came together in the past two years and developed a proposal for the US government that makes ICANN more accountable in order for ICANN to become more independent and let the IANA contract expire and let the stewardship of the US government over ICANN lapse and hand it over to the multi-stakeholder community. So I think that we are a good example of how multi-stakeholder model works and solves problems. Akram Atala, interim CEO of ICANN thank you very much for joining us today. Thank you. And please do tune in to the ITU YouTube channel where we will be interviewing regulators, ministers, experts from the private and public sector here at the Wissis Forum 2016.