 Your Excellencies and our Ministers, CEOs of the telecom industry, representative of humanitarian organizations, civil society, all protocol observed. I am pleased to be welcoming you here in ITU on this special occasion on behalf of the ITU Secretary General Dr. Madunituri and also my other fellow elected officials of ITU. Let me begin by thanking you and telling you how I feel honored that you accepted my invitation to serve on this prestigious SMART Sustainable Development Model Advisory Board. I will ask the question why advisory boards and who are you advising for these two reasons. First, an advisory board is supported by advising and in some cases you don't need to have the endorsement of your board before you commit to outside. And it is, of course, as I said in the invitation letter, it is in situ personal invitation, we are inviting individuals. So, second, an advisor is free to say whatever he or she wants, which may not be the case for someone that is committed in official business. So, the idea behind it is to bring around the same table individuals who have track record, who have got big experience and also who have got big art. Big art to see how beyond the business of usual we can deliver something to people outside who are suffering when natural disaster strikes. The board is unique in that you were all individually approached in your individual capacity based on your experience, your track record as I said and your expertise. For that reason, I am convinced that the sum of our efforts and commitment will go a long way to make a difference in this world. I do believe in it. I am convinced. I hope you are also convinced by accepting to serve on this board. Today we sit in this board for an initiative which is very special to my heart and I am sure it is special to your heart as it has a direct impact on people's life. The SMART Sustainable Development Model Initiative is smart, timely and all inclusive. In composing this advisory board, we managed to get together high personalities of government, private sector, multilateral organization, civil society and non-profit foundations who all bring with them invaluable professional and personal experiences including regional perspective. Above all in this room today, we are people who share the passion of saving lives in a sustainable manner. This is what makes this advisory board unique and this is why I feel so proud and honored that you accepted my invitation to sit in this board. Although you may have read a lot about this initiative, let me say a few words about it and my colleague Kosmas will make a presentation, a more comprehensive presentation. This is a great initiative that bridges the gap between business, social development and public safety. I repeat, it will bridge the gap between business, social development and public safety. I believe that only ICT business and social oriented project and activities should incorporate disaster resiliency and disaster preparedness because the challenges brought by natural disaster are with us. Between 2000 and 2012, 1.2 million people lost their lives, 1.2 million. A total of 2.9 billion people life were affected and the loss, economic loss, the economic damage is estimated at 1.7 billion. Between 2010 and 2012, those two past years, the average of natural disaster happening in the world was 368 per year. This means that we have more than one natural disaster every day in our life. These are the challenges we are facing today and those are the challenges where we are called to play a role together in order to change something. It is for this reason that I think that professionals and other workers running ICT projects and social services should be trained to be the first responders when disaster strikes. Disaster strikes, actually disaster affects all of us and unfortunately it could be described as the equalizer but the equalizer in a negative way, not on the upper side but on the lower side because it affects the old and the young. It affects the rich and the poor, it affects urban and rural citizens, it affects the eyeball-bodied and the disabled. We are just through the initiative addressing the issues of the whole humanity and this is the noble role I think that we can play together. I know some of you have been playing this role but the all about this initiative is to bring all of us around the table where we can cross-facilize our experiences where we can make sure that we work as a team. I say team, I have a special meaning for team. Team I would say T for together, E for everyone, A for achieve and M for more. Together everyone achieves more. It is a spirit I would like to have in this advisory board and this initiative. Ladies and gentlemen allow me to say friends because this is what we expect in this initiative that we are friends around this table. When I look around this table I see faces committed to serve the world. A global information society is built by high motivated individuals who move beyond the ordinary business as usual and promote sustainable development through the enthusiasm, strong vision and creativity. Those individuals for me are here today in this room with our joint effort, information and communication technologies can be mobilized to be a catalyst for both development and life-sailing. I am very optimistic of what we will accomplish together. Let us take advantage of this board to network among ourselves, brainstorm and share experiences. My ultimate goal is to create a platform to nurture new relationship and strengthen existing ones and I am pleased to note that many of you from organization that have got already partnership with ITU are here today. However, this initiative goes beyond to link emergency telecommunication and sustainable development and my colleague Kosmas will come back to explain a bit more what I mean. I therefore look forward to benefiting from your insight and the world outside here is waiting for us to answer few questions. First, what did you leave your very busy schedule and all your very high responsibility to convert to Geneva today? The second question, how will your advisory board impact them? The third question, what are you committed to deliver over the coming months to come? I am sure that we will be able to answer these questions by the time we will close our meeting this afternoon. As we are all here because we all deeply believe that no life, I say no life should be lost because the right communication means we are not put at the right place at the right moment. If I were to summarize the expected output of the smart sustainable development model and its advisory board, I will say the following. We are getting together to put a human face to our shared vision, to our shared passion for compassion and use business to sustain it. I thank you.