 Welcome to WTIS 16, Haberoni and Botswana. I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Vincent Bryon, who is the Attorney General, the Ministry of Justice, Legal Affairs and Communications for St Kitts and Neemers. Just to thank you very much indeed, being with us in the studio today. Thank you very much for having me, Max. Now, I'd like to start off by talking about the Measuring the Information Society report. It's our flagship report. It's just been released. And I wanted to find out why is this report important to your country? Well, it gives a measure of how well we have done over the last year in relation to the investments in the use and access of ICTS by our citizens, our people. And it does impact upon our economic performance. It justifies in a very tangible way the strides that we have made economically. We have exhibited, for instance, four or five percent growth over the last year. This next year, we estimate that we'll be above three percent so that in terms of our management of our economy, our finances, and the type of work we have done in our various sectors, this just helps to reinforce the fact that as a small island developing state that we have had prudent management of our affairs. And I think, as I said this morning at the award ceremony, I think it can act as a beacon, not just for saying it's a nevus going forward, but other small states that it can be done, that we can sit at the table and show that we have the way with all to add to the quality of life of our citizens and the world in general. Now you've done tremendously well, I think in this report, I think you can perhaps share with us the fact that you've actually won two awards, and you've had an incredible success. I just wanted to find out what have you done differently? Well, I think that we are part of a small sub-region in the Eastern Caribbean and we signed the treaty some way back in the late 1990s, and so from 2000, we have been on the one regulatory framework, we passed the Telecommunications Act in 2000, and so the legal framework that established that it was this group and for us, our own local national telecommunications regulatory commission set the platform on which we could have built on. It liberalized our telecom sector, and so whereas previously to that we had had one monopoly, one major company that had more or less a monopoly, the fact that we now have competitors in the environment who have been able to invest and so have our people respond. We feel that they have a good sense of education and they are very well connected through cell phones, access and use of telephony as well as access and use of broadband. And you came away with two awards? That's correct. This last year we have done very well. There have been where our sub-spirited have invested in 4G equipment and so on. So that has been a major advance as well as there has been much competition in the broadband, fixed broadband in particular, but also very much in mobile broadband as well. And so we moved up the rankings. We were 54th in 2015 and that ranking for the 2016th saw us move 20 places worldwide and up to 34th we are very proud of what we have done as a people and we think that is a foundation that we can build on as we move forward. I should also point out the awards were not just for the rank, the change in rank, but also when you combine a number of different indicators that the question was also one of an award for the value of what we have done as well. Congratulations for that. Now I wanted to find out you've been here for a couple of days now. What's the message that you think you'll be taking home from this year's WCIS imposing? Well, the networking with fellow ministers and people in the ICT sector has been exceptionally good for me, for one, but the actual focus of this symposium on the question of measuring the developments in ICTs has been particularly of significant use. We know, for instance, the need to constantly measure what we do for households, what we do with individuals as well, so that you can get a sense of the gaps that need to be felt. We know, for instance, that we have done quite well at home in the linkages of secondary schools. All of them are linked by broadband, and so in education we have done significant work. We also have work to do in our hospitals. We work in the hospital information system to link our three, four hospitals at home, and so once we can do the measurements of the growth, the access, the use of broadband and other forms in the sector, it allows us as a government to make the type of policies that could help us to go even further. Next year we hope we can even move further up the ranking. So the constant, the need to measure what we do as policymakers, the need to be with indicators that are standardized, that with statistical data that is used around the world for comparability, so that we just don't see where we have done ourselves, but where we compare ourselves with other economies worldwide, that that would be of a great benefit to us. Now you've partially covered it, but I wanted to ask you my final question. In what ways are ICTs assisting St. Kitts and Nevis in the drive towards the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals? Well, one of the goals clearly of the Sustainable Development Goals, the SDG, has been that we leave no one behind, that all of us citizens be able to benefit from their place in our societies. And so whether you are elderly, informed, differently abled, whether you are a young person, we all should be able to access the benefits to be derived from the ICT. And so we have to ensure that we have the proper legislation and regulations in place to keep a strong framework. We have to ensure that we invest in those areas that we have lagged in. And so I think very much so, it is something that we as a country, we as a government are very much committed to do, to ensure that all our people have a quality of life that would assist us to be one of the most beautiful places in the world to live and work. And we hope and hope that for people to visit as well. We welcome you at any time. Thank you very much. We wish you the very best of the future. And Sabana, thank you very much for joining us in the studio today. And we look forward to catching up with you again very soon. Perhaps another 20 places higher than the next one. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And thank you for joining us. And please check out our other videos on the ITU YouTube channel.