 Thank you for all the kindness, excellencies, gentlemen, and ladies. I am so excited and honored to be here tonight to accept this award on behalf of the Web Foundation and on behalf of my colleagues, Sonya, George, and Ingrid Brudwig, who are here in the second row. Raise your hands. This is really your award. Well done. And thank you to ITU and UN Women for this recognition and for being such strong allies in all of our work at the Web Foundation, and thanks to all the other great organizations that were nominated in this category because policy change is never the achievement of a single group. The Web Foundation is a research and advocacy organization that exists to advance the vision of our founder, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. We believe the open web is a basic right and a public good, and we want everyone everywhere to be able to use it to change their own lives and to solve their own problems. Our digital inclusion program is working to create the political will, the policy know-how, and the citizen demand to make sure that every country delivers on its sustainable development goal commitments to achieve universal internet access for all, regardless of gender or income, and to advance women's empowerment through ICTs. We're doing this in a few different ways. As you heard, the Alliance for Affordable Internet, which we lead, brings governments, companies, and civil society groups together to develop homegrown policy solutions to drive down the cost to connect, particularly for women and low-income groups. And there are now national multi-stakeholder AFRAI coalitions supporting governments on policy reform to increase access in six countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. While affordability is a huge barrier to women's empowerment through technology, it's not the only one. And that's why our Women's Rights Online Network researches and advocates the multi-dimensional policies needed to overcome the digital gender divide, and it also amplifies the voices of women in ICT policymaking in 10 countries. And in September, together with UN Women, the WRO Network launched these gender digital divide scorecards that show across several different dimensions of access and empowerment exactly how far each country is from achieving the SDG targets and the practical steps they can take now to accelerate their progress. So Tim Berners-Lee always talks about how the web was built by its users. And that's why we believe that while closing the gender divide in access is urgent and fundamental, we agree with UNOMA and Iliana that it is equally important that women are not just using the Internet, not just consuming content and services, but actually have the confidence, the resources, and the skills to appropriate technology and build the web in their own image. And that's why recently we organized the Fast Africa Campaign, which saw tens of thousands of ordinary women and men in 20 African countries voicing their demands to politicians for fast, open, affordable Internet for all. It's also why we hosted the first ever Africa Summit on Women and Girls in Technology together with UN Women. This unique event created a dynamic space for women from across Africa to discuss openly the web that they want and to develop a concrete action plan for how to make it real. And commitment to decisive action, ladies and gentlemen, has never been more important. Recent ITU data shows that the gender access divide is actually increasing. Not shrinking, not just staying the same, but increasing. And our own research, which Kathy Brown mentioned earlier, shows that women in poor communities in the global south are not only 50% less likely to be online, but among those who are connected, women are 30% to 50% less likely to use the Internet for economic, political, and social empowerment than men. So not only are the majority of the world's women offline, as we sit here tonight in this room, but those who are connected are largely silent and passive bystanders on the sidelines of the digital revolution. Yet there are so many ways, as we've heard already tonight, in which technology can open up influence opportunities and power for women. Digital finance can increase women's economic participation, give women entrepreneurs the ability to invest and grow their businesses, and shift economic decision making in the household in favor of women. The increasing use of digital technologies at work explains a large share of the increase in women's labor force participation in Germany, the US, Brazil, Mexico, and Thailand, and also explains a significant amount of the progress that those countries have recently made on reducing the gender wage gap. ICTs, and this is something that we have not talked about very much tonight, but ICTs have also given women new tools to organize and fight for change locally, nationally, and globally. In the Philippines, our WRO member, FMA, is using online discussion forums and online organizing to push political parties to adopt voluntary quotas for women candidates. In Egypt, crowdsourced reporting of incidents of sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo helped harass map to build a network of individuals, companies, and institutions speaking out against violence against women wherever they encounter it. The internet is an especially critical tool for women in countries where female mobility is limited, where cultural norms exclude women from having their voices heard in traditional public sphere, or where freedom of expression and association is heavily restricted by the government. Even though male elders may try to stop you having a phone, as has happened in some villages in India, even though a blog post can land you in jail, as is happening in far too many countries around the world today, online organizing and dissent is still safer and harder to control than offline, and therefore a very precious resource for women's rights activists who are under so much pressure globally. So now let me conclude with just a few words about this agenda for change that I've talked about that we have developed with our partners in AFRAI and the Women's Rights Online Network. How many of you are parents of daughters in this room? How would you feel if someone told you that your eight-year-old daughter would have to wait until she was 30 years old to even go online? Because that's what our research shows is how long it will take to achieve universal access in least developed countries if we allow current incremental progress to continue. If governments keep making the modest efforts that they're making, if the market keeps doing what it's doing, it will still take 22 years to get everyone online. That is completely unjust and unacceptable. We are calling on governments and companies to react urgently to reverse the trend of growing online digital inequality. Now, React is R-E-A-C-T, and R stands for Upholding Rights. The internet as a safe space enabling women to speak up and organize for change is under threat in many countries. Legal frameworks to protect the right to privacy in the digital era are missing or ineffective in many of the countries we reviewed in our scorecard. Leadership measures or outright shutdowns of the internet are spreading, and law enforcement responses to violence against women online are unacceptably weak. We must make sure that everything we do, as companies, as governments, as civil society, to increase women's access and use of the internet also strengthens their rights and their power online. E is for investing in education. We must make sure that every girl has access to free quality education at least through secondary level and that that education includes digital skills and STEM. We need to mobilize resources and policy frameworks to enable wonderful initiatives like Unomas to go to scale so that every girl can be reached in every country. A stands for affordable access for all. Internet connectivity and devices are still out of reach for the poor in many developing countries. Across Africa, for example, just 500 megabytes of mobile data costs an average of 15 percent of monthly income. And that's a particular barrier for women who earn 25 percent less than men globally. That's why we're calling for a new and more ambitious affordability target to be adopted by the UN. One gigabyte of mobile data should not cost anybody more than 2 percent of average income. C stands for women as creators of content. Both the private sector and governments should invest in expanding content and services developed by and for women. And we've heard from tonight's speakers already the wonderful things that can happen when we make that our focus. And T, above all, is for targets. Making progress on any of these priorities requires that policy makers set concrete targets, back them with dedicated budget, and be accountable for progress with gender disaggregated data. Only 10 percent of countries reviewed by the Broadband Commission have policies, ICT policies that include reference to gender. And only two of 17 countries that we looked at in more detail have broadband plans that include specific targets for ICT gender equity. Fewer than 20 developing and emerging countries are even collecting gender disaggregated data on internet access and sharing that with the ITU. Businesses and investors should also adopt targets and be held accountable by sharing data on their progress. This award strengthens our resolve to advocate and campaign globally on this agenda so that every country and company will take ambitious steps now to end the gender digital divide. Sonya Ingrid and I invite you to join us in this crucial effort and we stand ready to work with all of you to make online gender equality a priority for all of the world's governments, tech companies, and civil society organizations, and a reality for all the world's women. Thank you so much.