 Welcome to the 2021 BDT year in review. It's been a very challenging year for so many of our members, our partners, and our stakeholders. And there may be many new challenges ahead. But despite all that, I believe BDT has much to be proud of. Over the past year, our project portfolio continued to grow, following the positive trend achieved over the past two years. Our new Youth Initiative Generating Connect goes from strength to strain, with Generation Connect youth groups now working actively in every corner of the world. Our partner to connect digital coalition launched on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly is gearing up to mobilize new resources, partnerships, and commitments to bring the unconnected online. I invite you all to join us in this coalition so that we can leverage our shared resources to bring the vital power of digital to everyone, fast. Closing the digital divide has never been more critical. With the pandemic accentuating and accelerating our dependence on technology, we urgently need to bring the transformational power of the internet to billions of people still offline. New ITU data estimate that while 4.9 billion people have connected, the gap between the digital rich and the digital poor remains a stark reflection of global inequality. Over 90% of the 2.9 billion still offline live in the developing world. And the reality is that hundreds of millions of those that we count as connected actually struggle with infrequent, unreliable connectivity that's too expensive, too hard to access, or too slow to play any meaningful role in improving their lives. That means that ITU's mission to connect the world has never mattered more than it does today. ITU's next World Telecommunications Development Conference in June 2022 comes at a crucial time. At that global conference, we have a unique opportunity to use digital to totally rewrite the global development paradigm. We absolutely must not miss our moment.