 It is now time to meet these winners in person. I would like to invite Deputy Secretary General Halen Zhao, who is also Secretary General-elect, to join me here at the stage to present the awards. The first category is in ICT applications and content for social empowerment and sustainable development. The winner is UNESCO, Women in Africa History e-Learning from Africa. Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, I am deeply honored and on behalf of UNESCO I accept the GemTech Award as a recognition of the importance we ascribe along with UN Women and ITU to empowering girls and women through the new information and communication technologies. Everybody tells the story that African women are at the forefront of development, say Dr. Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission. This is precisely the goal of UNESCO Women in Africa History and e-Learning tool to tell this story drawing on the full potential of the new technology. The e-Learning tool brings together so much that is essential to UNESCO. Our two global priorities, Africa and gender equality and the use of new information and communication technologies including open educational resources for quality learning, linking technology with heritage and local content and knowledge and history. These are all angles of UNESCO's work to strengthen human rights and dignity, to widen access to the creation and sharing of knowledge, to promote our common history as a basis for respect and mutual understanding. This fits into UNESCO's flagship, the General History of Africa and our work to take forward the pedagogical use of the General History of Africa. This e-Learning tool is an opportunity to celebrate the women who have shaped Africa and who in so doing have changed the world. Each of them tells a story of resistance to tyranny and the struggle for human rights and dignity for the empowerment of girls and women. Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank the government of Bulgaria for generously supporting the e-Learning tool. I believe this award pays tribute to their leadership in advancing the priorities we share. I thank you very much. Congratulations. The next category is in ICT applications and content for economic empowerment and poverty reduction and it goes to iMARIT technology services from India. To accept this award, on behalf of the 30,000 marginalized and minority young women and men of Anadeep iMARIT, who have been skilled in ICT, in technologies and mainstreamed into internet and IT jobs and earning three to seven times their earlier family income, our women at iMARIT believe strongly like I do in market-based solutions. We do not wish to be long-term beneficiaries of the United Nations and large corporations. We want you to be our clients, like other corporations like Microsoft or other tech companies and internet companies are. We want you to be our clients so that we can deliver high-quality internet and IT project services to you and thereby earn revenues for both the organization and for the women. Our dream is for iMARIT and others like us to become many Facebook or Alibaba's with our women as equal shareholders so they can participate like Silicon Valley does in other parts of the world like China and India does in the global internet economy. That is what we think of as mainstreaming. Thank you. The next category is promoting women as ICT decision makers and the award goes to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. None of it would happen if it weren't for a large group of volunteers who support me on this and I know that I'm not the only leader of a volunteering organization. There are volunteering organizations all over the world who are helping women to look at careers in IT and to stay in careers in IT. But I think really we now need to take this seriously and not that we don't as volunteers. We do take it very seriously but I think we need to recognize that the amount of additional revenue and the amount of additional innovation that comes from maximizing the potential of all of the women in the technology industries and the technology professions is there for the corporates and therefore academia. So let's start taking this seriously. Thank you all very much. The next category is enabling girls to become ICT creators and the award goes to Research Center for Feminist Action from the Dominican Republic. The American Latin and Caribbean region. Who for health reasons could not be here but who sent in a message, clear and strong as she is. Magali says and I quote I thank you for the nomination of the Indotel and the initiative of the IT and the women's home to establish this recognition and I receive it with in the name of the girls and women of the Dominican Republic and of Latin America and the Caribbean who dream and work for a world without violence, with social justice, where equality between men and women is a reality. The new technologies of information and communication can contribute to making reality this dream. Yes, initiatives and projects such as the Supermatic Clubs and Echicas and many others of which are being presented here, are transformed with the commitment and support of governments and the private sector in public policies of economic and social impact that guarantee the path to a society of inclusive, equitable and equal information. Congratulations. The next category is Closing the ICT Gender Gap and it goes to Telesong to Foundation from the Philippines. Thank you. I'm very pleased and honored to be here representing the Global Telecenter Community. Hundreds of thousands of organizations from around the globe provide critical service for millions and millions of people that without them will have no access whatsoever to all the benefits and opportunity the ICT and Internet enables. The achievement of the work that we have done is a collective achievement. As I said, hundreds of organizations work tirelessly every day to make ICT meaningful and useful for many, many people. I like also to thank, especially to ITU for the continued support that they have shown and to the initiative that the Foundation is delivering. And especially because without their help, we will not be able to reach as many countries as we are doing it today. Providing this support to one million women, yes, it's a significant achievement. But in the big scheme of things, it's a very small step towards women equality. We need more help. We need more participation. And more importantly, we need you, all of you who are the builders of the Information Society, to enable and create new opportunities for the continued participation of women in the ICT and creating future and opportunities for their communities. Today, our work and the goal of building this Information Society is by no means finished. We still have more than 4.4 billion people every day that have no access to Internet or ICT. We need your participation and we need your support in enabling new opportunities for women. Most of those 4 billion people are women. And without them, we cannot really build a serious future for this humanity. Thank you all and I would like to take this opportunity to take the James Tech Award as a call for actions, for joining new forces, for joining resources and make sure that in new versions of this event, we will bring also representatives from the grassroots who are the ones actually making the difference in creating opportunities for women. Thank you very much. The next category is Building Online Confidence and Security. And the award goes to Association for Progressive Communications from South Africa. We are proud to receive this award on behalf of all the campaigners and partners of Take Back the Tech in more than 25 countries in the world. This is a huge moment for us in recognition of our work in places as diverse as Democratic Republic of Congo, Bosnia-Hazegovina, Pakistan, Colombia and the Philippines. When we first started the campaign in 2006, no one really spoke about violence against women online, even though it was increasingly becoming part of our experience of accessing and using the Internet and ICTs. It is really through the commitment and activism of all of the campaigners in organizing actions, in documenting and creating content, in experimenting with new technologies, in sharing what they know and in engaging with all stakeholders, including human rights groups, tech companies and the government that this issue is now becoming seriously recognized as a significant barrier to the participation of women and girls online. And that it needs serious attention. I hope that this award and this initiative will continue to empower the curiosity and the capacity of women and girls to take control of technology and to use it in playful, creative and strategic ways to end violence against women online and to transform the world that we live in. Thank you. Finally, the seventh category is in broadband policies to promote women's digital empowerment and it goes to the Federal Ministry of Communication and Technology from Nigeria. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, distinguished delegates, I'm delighted to receive this award on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria. Being one of the recipients of the Made in GemTech Awards from the ITU and UN Women is an important recognition and validation of President Jonathan's administration on gender inclusion and empowerment facilitated by information and communication technologies. It is now an empirical fact that there is an underrepresentation of women and girls in ICTs, whether in terms of access, in terms of utilization or employment. There are many more men that are online than women and the gap is even wider in developing economies such as Nigeria. Women account for fewer than 20% of ICT specialists in developing economies where it is estimated that in 2015, 90% of formal employment across all sectors will require ICT skills. According to our last population census in 2006, women make up 49% of the Nigerian population and current estimates and future projections say that this would be the same going forward. In the light of the importance of information and communication technologies to national development, closing this gender-digital divide has become a development priority for us in Nigeria. We cannot afford to exclude half our population from the benefits of ICT for development. Three flagship programs are helping us to make progress towards our quest to empower women through ICTs. Our Digital Girls Clubs in secondary schools is helping girls develop an early interest in computers and in the ICT sector in general. Our 1000 Girls program is building up the ICT skillset of select group of unemployed girls to fill vacant ICT jobs in the country. And our Smart Women program is a platform for disseminating relevant and useful information to Nigerian women via their mobile phones. I must at this point thank our various partners that have worked closely with us to design and implement these programs. The Federal Minister of Finance for her gender-based budgeting allocations to support our programs. Women in Technology and Women Technology Empowerment Centre, two NGOs that worked with us to develop the Digital Girls online curriculum. Huawei Technologies that has provided the facilitators and the physical venues for training young girls. And finally Women in Management and Business, an NGO that is providing the editorial services for content on the Smart Women platform. Finally, my thanks go to the ITU, UN Women and her partners. It is a great honour for our work to be recognised by these important multilateral organisations and we are spurred to do even more. I wish you more success in your global quest to get more women and girls into ICTs. Thank you. Thank you Secretary General Tao. We have concluded our award ceremony. Congratulations to all our seven awardees. It feels like you are all beacons of light in the ICT sector for all women and girls around the globe. I hope that your organisations serve as role models for many, many others to follow.