 Welcome to WISIS Forum 2018. I'm delighted this afternoon to be joined by Mr. Tarek Kamel, Senior Advisor to the President and CEO for Government and IGO Engagement at ICANN. Thank you for joining us, sir. Thank you very much for inviting us and we are delighted to be here. Fantastic. So, it's been 15 years since the first phase of WISIS and the adoption of the Geneva Plan of Action. How do you reflect on ICANN's work and your collaboration with other stakeholders over the past decade and a half? Well, we are very happy and delighted to be invited by ITU leadership and the Secretary-General to partner for the fifth year for the WISIS Forum as ICANN. And indeed, this year we are also more happy to see more global international participation, specifically at the opening from the UN leadership, the Deputy Secretary-General, as well as the World Bank, and several other organizations that are participating in this event for the first time. This shows really that the agenda of the WISIS Forum is becoming wider in spectrum, in coverage, and it is also being linked to the Sustainable Development Goals implementation and the agenda of 2030. So, it is very important that we don't talk only about the past, the last 15 years, but about the next 15 years as well. And here I see the WISIS doing the right bridge, the WISIS Forum doing the right bridge, specifically this year when connecting to the Sustainable Development Goals and the agenda 2030. ICANN is very happy as a technical organization to be among the stakeholders that are participating to the WISIS Forum process in preparation as well as in the different sessions with governments, private sector, civil society, and academic community, and businesses as well. I think you are stressing something important here. It's the fact that WISIS is a global multi-stakeholder platform. And in order to build a real knowledge and information society, you need collaboration between all the stakeholders, don't you? Indeed. And this is what we have been witnessing here at WISIS very effectively within the last years and gives also the event more and more momentum. ICANN, for example, is contributing with a very special topic related to internationalized domain names, IDNs, such in Arabic, in Cyrillic, in Chinese, and in several other languages. What would this affect? This affects very clearly the development of local content. The next billion internet users, as we all know, will come from the global south, as we call it, or from the emerging economies. So it is important that we provide to these new coming one billion internet users content in their own languages that reflects to their own needs and their own requirements and their own demands within their regions, in addition to accessing global content. So we are happy to participate in that, to talk with the ITU and with other stakeholders as well about capacity building in underserved regions. This has been one of the highlights of the event and ICANN has participated actively within these deliberations. And we look forward for further cooperation with the global multi-stakeholder community in the capacity building and the overall development of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Mr. Tarek Kamal, thank you very much. Thank you for having me and we wish the event further success. Thank you.