 I'm Veena Rawat and I'm part of the Canadian delegation and I'm also working as a senior spectrum advisor for GSMA. Network of Women from my perspective is a great initiative because one of the things it's doing is that ITU processes, whether they are the technical meetings or they are the World Radio Conference, they are complex and they require a good understanding of you know how the things work here and Network of Women provides the opportunity to the women who come first time to these meetings, you know it provides them the opportunity to be able to understand, learn from their mentors, what their roles are, how should they operate here, what they can do, how they can contribute and most importantly ITU needs more women in the leadership role and Network of Women would help tremendously to move towards that goal because once the women understand you know how the things work then they develop the confidence to actually take the leadership role. If there are men who are who are keeping this development of women in you know in this field in this radio communication sector then it's extremely important for them to get involved in now also and work because women are not saying the women who are coming in as mentees or mentors, they're not saying we can only learn from women, they can learn from anyone. I think what is needed is to be able to work with these, the women have to come in and say come to learn and then the people who can provide that kind of expertise and you know mentoring role it's extremely important. Mentoring is not a one-way process you're not just mentoring someone you are always always learning from your mentees also at least in my mentoring for over I don't know decades now I have found that it has been the best experience. This title of being the first and the only woman it's a good title but at the same time I find it very difficult to sit here in 2019 16 years after I chaired a conference to say I'm still the only woman so my message is that to chair a conference to WRC because it only takes place every 4, 3 or 4 years it is important that we start planning for women to take that you know plan the chairmanship of a conference. So in 2019 if we want a woman to take the chairmanship of WRC 2023 the time is now to talk about it look at review who the women are we have a very very good representation of women now okay so we can't say we don't have the supply we have the supply it's a question of now focusing on it and then targeting women for it doesn't have to be just one woman you know targeting number of women and say these are the potential candidates for the WRC 23 chairmanship and then follow that up through a network of women can start talking about it identify the candidates and if the candidates need help I know that for example when some women were running for RRB as elected officials you know they talked to me and said well you ran for the elected official position tell us so these women it's a two way street so the women who think they want to chair a conference should come forward to okay and the women who think who can help out to actually you know guide them for the process that can be done through network of women absolutely I have said 3 or 4 times now I have seen women who have been mentored under the network of women who came at their their all different parts of the administrations and industry and everything else they were they were there they were good listeners I have seen them from just participating as a good listener in the meeting to now taking the microphone and not only presenting their views actually debating their views which has been it just a pleasure to see that join it in whatever capacity you can and keep moving take actions talking is very good but we want concrete actions.