 Welcome to the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 here in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates where I've got the great pleasure of being joined in the studio today. I'm Ms Doreen Bogdan Martin who is a Director-Elect for the Telecommunication Development Bureau, BDT for ITU. Doreen, welcome to the studio. Thank you, happy to be here. As Director-Elect now of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau how do you see the future of ITU? I think that the mission of the ITU has actually never been more important. We have half the world's population that's not connected and we also know that if we don't connect the other half that it will almost be impossible to achieve the sustainable development goals, the 17 SDGs. We know that ICTs are cross-cutting enablers for each and every one so connectivity is essential which means that our mission has as I said never been more important. So let me ask you what are your top priorities and how do you plan to achieve them? Throughout the course of my campaign I led a campaign focusing on five main areas. So first focusing on partnerships, making sure that we broker very sound partnerships, partnerships for purpose. In the BDT as you may know we have a rather small budget, limited resources and we have no less than 30 regional initiatives that we need to implement and we're never going to be able to do that unless we really are able to broker these partnerships. So the second area is on our regional presence we need to empower our regional offices and ensure that we're making them more relevant for the countries that they're serving. The third area is capacity building. We need to make sure that we respond to the needs of our members and that we equip them with the needed capacity whether it's digital skills, cybersecurity. We need to make sure that we equip them with the skills and capacity that they need to flourish in the digital economy. The fourth area is data. We collect the ICT data from all member states. We need to do more with that data. We need to collect it more timely. We need to do more analysis, more forecasting and we need to be able to help our members to make evidence-based policy making. And then the final point that I believe is extremely important is that we need to be more efficient. We need to be more modern and we need to be more innovative. I think the world is waiting for us and so we need to sort of hurry up and get out there and help them in the best way, the most efficient way that we can. And finally, what do you see as ITU's role in accelerating the progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals? It's fundamental. We are actually the key enabler to achieving each and every SDG, whether it's from no poverty to education for all, to health care, smart, sustainable cities. ICTs have a role in each of those SDGs. Tourine Bogdan, thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much.