 So President Solis, it is our pleasure to have you here at ITU and congratulations on being the first ITU patron for youth and ICTs. Thank you, I'm honoured, I'm very happy and I hope I keep up to this big commitment because it's a high responsibility to be awarded with this extraordinary occasion. And a great honour for ITU that you have accepted and I'd like to start President Solis by asking you why do you believe is ICTs so important for youth today? Well because it's the future and because it's already a reality that needs to be used as an opportunity for the improvement of the lives of millions of people. I'm always amazed when I see the world in general how many people are not connected to the digital ecosystems and it is our duty I think to bring the opportunities of more people to get engaged and particularly young people to use this information technologies to live better. This is the whole issue, living better, living more plentiful lives, having the opportunity to fulfil the dreams of individuals which can be so well served by these technologies. But obviously the challenge has to bring us to the realization that this is an effort that needs, requires public policies that it cannot be achieved simply by extending markets. There's a role for the state, there's a role for governments and clearly there's a role for the cooperation between the private sector and the public sector achieving therefore more potency in the programs we enact to generalize the use of digital technologies. But in my estimation, you know, the Inama historian history has taught us that technological change conditions in many ways the possibilities of society, of society function and with digital technologies we have the opportunity to democratize the economy to democratize politics to democratize social organizations, territorial development, etc. So in my view having the technology available it is only natural that governments and the private sector together with the rest of society will do the outmost effort in order to provide these technologies to be available for the majority of people. This is going to take time, it's not going to happen overnight, but we do require to bring about this opportunity to many people and this includes particularly an effort from the public sector to help the concretion of this dream by education, by fomenting education which I find critical to this regard. And with regard to the role of government, what concretely do you think that governments can do to better empower young people, to become entrepreneurs and to drive ICT start-up cultures? Well as I was mentioning, one fundamental ambitus for government action is education, good quality public education and good quality public education today entails access to the broadband for example, having internet become a normal part of the pedagogical model. In Costa Rica we are trying to do this with a special fund we have from telecommunications companies that private companies that are working in the country and what we want to do and this is already an ongoing effort is to make the broadband available to all public schools and high schools which would allow immediately to have access to a universe of possibilities in terms of educational developments. That's one thing. Secondly, I would find essential to provide funding for these start-ups. In my estimation this is probably the most necessary resource especially because young people are generally unexperienced and therefore they have very limited access to credit. So having them given the opportunity to access these credit mechanisms and provide these mechanisms with facilities including special interest rates and others could allow for an easier way to do it and then I would pay special attention to the populations with disabilities or with special needs because they are doubly or triply excluded as young people and women because we are not prepared for them and we're not readily and the tools are not readily available for this. You know I was once told and I fully agree with this that there are no people with disabilities but only people with special needs. Disabilities they are because of society's lack of the capacity lacking the capacity to take care of those special needs. So I do find that these three essential factors would be essential. Education, finance and access, accessibility to the majority of the young population. And as the UN system and the member states fight to you now really prioritise youth and specifically youth and ICTs do you believe that that can bring a positive contribution to tackling the global issue of youth unemployment? Oh definitely, most definitely. But it would be very important to somehow link the availability of digital resources to the more traditional parts of the economy using therefore telecommunications, innovation and communications as a springboard or even as a bridge that would allow these more traditional parts of the economy to link up with the more dynamic parts of the economy related to the global world. As I mentioned earlier there's a huge gap between the populations that are accessible or have access to technologies and those who do not. And I would find that making it possible to link up these two parts of societies would allow us to reduce the gap and at the same time include more people in the benefits of development. So yes I think it is possible to lessen the amount of people who are unemployed, young people who are unemployed as we expand these technologies. President Solis thank you very much for joining us here today and especially congratulations on being the first patron for ITU for youth and ICTs. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.