 We're here at ITU Telecom World 2015 in Budapest, Hungary, and I'm very pleased to be joined by Mr Regis Gataraika, who is the head of ICT Department of the Rwanda Development Board. Mr Gataraika, thank you very much for being with us today. Thanks for having me. Now, I'd like to start off by talking about the theme of ITU Telecom World 2015 is accelerating innovation for social impact. How do you see ICT innovation directly impacting on socio-economic development in Rwanda? Thank you. In Rwanda, we've started seeing how ICT innovations are actually being embedded in all sorts of lives in different sectors of the economy of Rwanda. In sectors such as education, health, financial sector and e-government and also agriculture, we have started seeing good solutions that are applicable to the lives of the Rwandan people in accessing health services online, using applications that are developed for the health sector of Rwanda. We've started seeing our farmers in the agriculture sector accessing the information that is relevant to their prices for the agricultural produce on the market so that they can know how to position their produce on the market. Really, this has contributed a lot to the lifestyle of Rwandans and it's helping also in the support of GDP growth for Rwanda. What measures do you think that government and industry can take to encourage entrepreneurship and foster the growth of SMEs in the ICT sector? And what's the government of Rwanda doing? Dialogue, dialogue, constant dialogue between the private and public sector and also partnerships. Public and private partnerships is really key to the encouragement of SME development because as you know in this sector specifically, innovation takes place every day, every minute. So it's important that government policies are aligned with those innovations that are taking place driven by the private sector and in that way SME's growth is encouraged and it keeps pace with the global trends in the ICT sector. And how is the ITU telecom world enabling you to showcase this? Events such as this is really a very good platform for our young innovators to come and see how other people have done it and also be able to exchange ideas on their own products because for example in this ITU telecom world 2015 we've been able to bring young innovators from Rwanda and they are able to compete to see how they can position themselves in comparison to others, I mean other innovations around the world. So it's important for us to keep exchanging these conversations. What kind of projects are they working on? Well they are developing applications, mobile applications. We have a number of solutions. You might want to come and check our booths there. Great well I will obviously encourage everybody to go and see it who's here. Definitely. And is there a main message that you would like to convey here to participants of ITU telecom world? Yes the main message that I really want to put to the participants of this ITU telecom world 2015 which is happening one week before the Transform Africa Summit 2015 version that is going to be hosted in Rwanda next week between 19 and 21st. I really encourage everyone to join us in Kigali when we will be discussing similar topics but most importantly and specifically for Africa we will be talking about accelerating digital innovations and I welcome everyone to come and join us there. Well we definitely encourage everybody to follow that message through and just finally I would like to ask you a question I have been asking all the guests here in the studio. What's the value of attending events such as ITU telecom world for you? I think I have mentioned it before. Events such as this are really a platform for us to exchange ideas and also to see the new innovations that are coming up in the IT sector. So it's important for us to keep pace with the developments around the world. So this is a very perfect platform for that. Well thank you very much indeed for your time in the studio today and we wish you the very best with all the SMEs and the project that they got here and also of course with your conference in a week's time. Yes between 19th and 21st of this month that's next week. Oh next week fantastic okay well very best of luck with that too. Thanks thanks for having me.