 The DigiGirls programme goes back to the year 2000 and as with most things it started with two Microsoft employees that realised that they needed to do something in their schools locally to attract more girls to ICT careers and I think so far they have trained something like 23,000 people across the world since the year 2000. Recently in Europe we had a campaign that covered 18 countries and trained over 2,000 girls so that's where it started from and today a few years later we're seeing our own longer term self-interest because there's a trend, a falling trend of girls in STEM, the STEM area and so we're very much invested in making sure that girls continue to be attracted to ICT careers. We want to be sure that girls continue to be attracted to working among our IT partner ecosystem which numbers 250,000 partners around the world so yes we're completely committed to initiatives like DigiGirls that brings girls together with role models that gives them the chance to do hands-on workshops on whether it's coding, whether it's learning other tech skills, seeing product demos and overall we feel as well that it's very important that they see role models, senior Microsoft people just to make those careers a little bit more accessible to young girls and of course we want to do some myth-busting and demystify some of the perceptions around IT careers and show the possibilities in the ICT sector as exciting and that may influence their decision on what studies they will do. So DigiGirls is part of our global initiative called YouthSpark and essentially what it is we were already doing a lot across the company helping young people to connect them to jobs and training and opportunities for entrepreneurship and so what we did was we brought together a lot of our business programs serving youth in those areas with our philanthropy programs and we created YouthSpark a year and a half ago with the goal of connecting 300 million youth across the world to opportunities for jobs, education and entrepreneurship and we feel that we provided a cohesive, comprehensive pathway if you like from the classroom to the workplace where young people in K-12 education have the opportunity to learn coding, we support the teachers as they teach technology and then from there as we move into higher education we have a competition called the biggest student competition worldwide called ImagineCup that inspires technology students to use to find technology solutions to address some of the world's biggest problems such as the millennium development goals and beyond that in terms of looking for jobs we have a program that helps IT entrepreneurs called the BizSpark program and it helps them with in their first few years when I guess they're the most vulnerable it helps them with access to tools and special offerings from entrepreneurs we also introduce them to venture capitalists and help them create this community where they can leverage the other assets and people within that community to help get their business off the ground so all along the way from the classroom to the workplace and beyond setting up your own business the YouthSpark program is helping to address help young people at every step in that journey to help them land opportunities in employment or entrepreneurship or training I think the girls in ICT Day from ITU it's essential it's very very critical and I think only an organization like ITU can has the power to bring all these different stakeholders together whether it's private sector IT sector like Microsoft public policy makers and non-profit organizations around the world that are working on the issue I think it's essential that a ITU continue ICT girls international girls on ICT Day because it brings focus to a lot of the work that we're doing as well and I think that you know together we land greater impact you know by mobilizing all our various expertise and assets to make a change at the end of the day