 Welcome to the World Summit on the Information Society 2017. I am very pleased to be joined here in Geneva by Mr. Tarek Kamal, Senior Vice President and Advisor to the President at ICANN. Hello there. Hi. Thank you very much for joining us. So, what are ICANN's objectives in taking part in a WISIS Forum this year? I think we are very glad as ICANN really to be partnering with the ITU in this event. I have to congratulate the Secretary General, Mr. Holenzau and his team for the success of the WISIS Forum and the attendance that we have been witnessing here so far. Really multi-stakeholder international and global contribution from government civil society as well as business and academia. I think for ICANN very specifically it is an opportunity for engagement with different stakeholders as such on a global level. It's very useful for us to listen to those stakeholders and really to explain about the mission of ICANN and the technical role that ICANN really plays and have the right exchanges within our engagement opportunities. Very specifically this time we are coming with a message related to partnership in capacity building with a focus on developing countries and underserved regions. And we had a couple of panels that have been quite successful and vibrant via the participation of the stakeholders about this topic. So, what is the contribution that ICANN can make to the SDGs, the sustainable development goals? I think that the SDG became now really the global umbrella for development. They have been triggered by the UN and announced in late 2015, but meanwhile really they are overarching the activities of development in different sectors. For ICT very specifically and for ICANN's role I think within our limited technical mission that ICANN has we are contributing very actively with the promotion of the internationalized domain name or IDN. Domain names in Arabic, domain names in Cyrillic, domain names in Chinese and this is important to foster local content because as we know the internet is global but from a user's perspective as well it is very local because the user at the end wants to know about services, online services within his or her own languages that would benefit him. Municipality services or e-government services or education services or whatever. This can primarily happen in local content and if we look for the next billion users of the internet they are primarily coming from the developing countries as such. So this positions the local content on a higher priority and I think the internationalized domain name that ICANN really promotes can help and contribute in the development of that and ends in the success of the sustainable development goals. So what role can ICANN play in internet governance post the IANA transactions? I think this is a very interesting topic that you are addressing ICANN as a community has successfully completed the transition of the stewardship of the IANA services back in the first of October 2016. This process was unique by itself because it was a multi-stakeholder global process as such that has been running for around two years and where the oversight of the IANA transition went over from the stewardship of the US government to the stewardship of the global community. But with responsibilities there is also accountability and hence ICANN community is working now together with the board and ICANN organization on the development of the so-called empowerment, empowered community that would really keep ICANN more transparent, more accountable and our management and our CEO and the board are very keen to reach the maximum level of transparency and accountability specifically after the IANA transition and after we have a global stewardship from the community which is probably to a great extent a unique governance model. Mr. Tara Kamal, Senior Vice President and Advisor to the President at ICANN, thank you very much. Thank you for having me.