 use is the hope of our future as the saying goes. At WSIS Forum 2018, engaging young stakeholders has become a priority. Young people all over the world are the most active users of ICTs and as most people born before the internet era will tell you, they also know the most about them. Since the adoption of the Geneva Plan of Action 15 years ago, WSIS has provided a framework for using ICTs as a development tool. Allow me to reiterate the UAE's commitment to employing ICT to achieve the WSIS objectives. The United Arab Emirates government is determined to achieve happiness and prosperity for the citizens and residents with particular emphasis on women and youth. If we want to modernize the UN system, we need the youth to bring the youth. It's a signal, if we can bring the youth with us, that means we are adapted to our times with the messages and with the actions we are doing. Besides youth, another priority of WSIS Forum this year is to find ways to enhance the participation of women in STEM and the overall economy. There's so much work that still needs to happen as it concerns gender equity in STEM and so what we want to do is create a change where it matters the most which is between zero and a zero and the young teenage years where we want our girls to know that they deserve a seat at the table and they can be whatever they want to be. When it comes to improving prospects for the youth, then the mainstreaming, inclusion in any shape or form, all the WSIS stakeholders have to work together to achieve the SDGs and that includes the private sector. Over the past decade WSIS has become the largest platform for promoting ICT and a platform of information sharing and cooperation. The Forum also brings together government and ICT enterprises whose participation has been facilitating the development of SDGs. So stay tuned in, in the next few days you'll find out more about the key role of ICTs and innovation to enhance inclusion and improve living standards across the world.