 Welcome to WTDC 17 here in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today, Mr. Shola Taylor, who's Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization. Shola, great to see you in the studio. Thank you very much, as usual. I'd like to start off by asking you a little bit about the theme for this year's conference. WTDC 17 is ICTs for SDGs. How does this theme resonate with your members? Well, one of the reasons why we're here at CTO is because the theme resonates very deeply with our members. As a matter of fact, the 2030 sustainable agenda was one of the factors that drove the strategic plan of the CTO. We actually use that as one of the inputs, as we find it very valuable. Our members have seen the value in the use of ICTs in applications, in agriculture, in education, in health, and constantly, when in touch with them, in responding to their needs. But the important thing is that we see the theme as responding to the needs of our members. So that's very important for us. Now, you represent a wide spectrum of members, both in developing countries. What specific challenges are your members facing in integrating ICTs into their development agenda? Well, the Commonwealth of Nations comprises 52 countries and with a population of 2.2 billion. Now, 60% of these are less than 30. Basically, almost half do not have access to internet. So one of the big challenges we have is how do we get all of these half a billion, billion people who have to be connected to the internet. One is investments. We did investment very badly. Secondly, we also need good regulations. We need good policies. We need policies to drive the investments, universal service frameworks. We've had it in many countries, but are they working? We are trying to see how we can review these frameworks to better meet the needs of our members. And we're constantly looking at the programs we have. We have what we call a member action plan, whereby for each country, we actually look at what the needs are because the needs vary from country to country. And we try to respond to the very needs of our member countries. And what regulatory and policy measures do you think needs to be put in place in order to bring connectivity on a global scale that's over the next billion? Well, the challenge for us is, first of all, to understand the needs of our members. The needs vary from country to country. But what we see, most important thing, is that we need to have policies that addresses the needs of our members. Issues like cyber security, for example. Issues like cyber crime, cyber standards. Our countries want to develop broadband. They need to have the right speed. What speed do they have? What speed do they need to provide? How do they need to define the speeds for hospitals, health clinics, educational institutions, rural populace as a whole? So we are constantly looking at the policies, regulations in countries, spectrum, for example. How do you ensure that our countries use the spectrum efficiently? Quality of service. We need to ensure that the populace have access to good quality of service. And all those kind of issues, environments, how do we respond to the issue of climate change? How does ICC help? So constantly we are looking at all these issues and depending on the countries, we provide advice on policy and regulatory issues. Finally, at the end of this conference, what concrete steps do you hope will be taken? Well, for us, it's important that ITU should focus, ITVD in particular, should focus on its mandate. We want to see concrete plans. We want to see actions which also resonate with the kind of thing that we're doing. We have a very strong partnership with the ITU. So we want to see outcomes that will define new partnerships, to spend the current partnerships, to ensure that the programs we have in the countries are actually responding to the needs of the countries. Sheldon Taylor, thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much. Thank you.