 Welcome to the Plenipotentiary Conference, PP22, ITU's major conference every four years, here in Bucharest in Romania, where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by her Excellency Emilia Stominova-Du, who is the Minister of Digital Transformation for the Republic of Slovenia. Minister, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me. Now, I'd like to start off a very quick question, and I'm sure you know the answer. How can governments bring the benefits of digital transformation to their citizens? Unfortunately, the answer is not so quick, so it's a longer one. Digital transformation is very important and is changing our lives. But if we want to make sure that the government is doing its best, then for sure we need to consider connectivity. And as a minister in Slovenia, I'm very happy to share that we have already received our national plan for gigabit infrastructure. So by 2025, we plan to cover 100% all urban municipalities with high-speed broadband. And then by 2020-30, also the rest of the areas, so the rural areas as well. Another thing what we are doing in Slovenia, access to the internet, is a universal service, so everybody has the right to be connected and we are very proud to share that as well. So, as mentioned, connectivity is definitely the first thing. But then we need to consider equal access as well. So we need to consider that no matter whether you're living in an urban or rural area, whether you're a woman or male, whether you're young people or older persons, so they all need to have access to the internet. And we have many projects. We also have an act on digital inclusivity in our country. So for us, it's very important, not only the infrastructure, but also the other access to the internet as well. Now technologies in connectivity are important, of course, but in order to make digital transformation successful, we should invest above all in people and skills to be able to use these technologies. How do you tackle this issue in Slovenia? Definitely. So first, we need to start with the children, with the young ones. And we need to make sure that they learn how to think logically, how to solve problems, because this is the basic when we are speaking about developing digital competencies and skills. Then we are aware that the labor market is changing. So there are major changes nowadays. We need to be aware of these changes. Everybody should be aware of that, the employees, the employers, and of course the education system. We must be prepared for that. So lifelong learning is definitely a thing to consider. And then once more, the problem in Slovenia is that we have this gender digital divide. Not so many women are involved. And we would like to change that with different projects, with different campaigns raising awareness. And this is also very happy that ITU is so active in these fields. And I applaud to the network of women that is existing in the ITU. And they have so many campaigns to make sure that they breach the gender divide. Indeed, that's very much one of our major preoccupations. And we hope that we will be able to bring more women to the conversation and bring women to the table and in positions of being able to make decisions. Our society is also currently experiencing a transition in the digital green economy area. However, we need to ensure that digital technologies don't consume more energy than they save. Do you have any good practices in Slovenia in this field? Yes. In Slovenia, we believe that digital and green go hand in hand. So we were working a lot on this topic in the past years. For example, I would like to share a very good example using Internet of Things in the agricultural sector, using Internet of Things so we can reduce our carbon footprint in addition, we can reduce the use of fit of pharmacy in the agriculture. We know that this is very important in the agricultural sector, not only in Europe, but also worldwide. And another very good example is a new modern data center we plan to build now in Slovenia. The building will be built from the sediments of a river. The data center will be at the island in the river. So we will use the water of the river for cooling the whole data center. And the heat waste will be used to heat residential buildings. So we're very proud of that one. Now, it's been a while since we all met up together since we were able to have physical meetings like this. I know that you're here for a limited amount of time. And of course, we appreciate your presence. I really wanted to find out, was it worth coming to Bucharest here for this meeting? And what do you hope will come from it? Definitely. So ITU is a very important organization. This year is 30 years of membership for Slovenia. We're very proud of that. During that time, we believe that we went a long way to connect our citizens to make sure that the internet is available for everybody. We believe that we're not that strong to do all this work on our own. So we are committed to the partnership of ITU. We would like to share best practices. We would like to learn from other member countries as well. And meetings in person are better than we're told, even though we're digital ministers here. Minister, thank you so much for joining us in the studio. And hopefully we'll get to catch up with you soon and hear some more success stories from Slovenia. Thanks a lot for inviting me. Thank you.