 On behalf of UN Women, I would like to express our regret that it was not possible for us to join Dr. Toure and all of you today to personally congratulate the winners and finalists of the inaugural ITU and UN Women GEMTAC awards. The use of ICTs for gender equality and women's empowerment and the participation of women in the ICT sector are very important and growing priorities for us as UN Women. As our Executive Director has said, ICTs can be a real game changer for women. We are seeing their potential across in all our areas of work and we are also looking to better integrate gender and ICT issues into our work on women's rights and on normative frameworks in national planning and in all of our partnerships. Engaging with ICTs is a critical 21st century issue for gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment. And in this context, we are very pleased to note that the draft proposal by the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, the STGs, has highlighted ICTs as a critical enabler under the gender equality goal. And of course, ICTs are also a key focus area of the 20-year review and commemoration of the Beijing platform for action in 2015, which UN Women is leading. We very much hope that as these very important processes come to fruition next year, we will see not only a much stronger mandate for but also much greater priority and investment in gender and ICTs in the coming years. This as we know is critical as we continue to see very significant inequalities in access to and use of ICTs between women and men, as well as many, many missed opportunities to really capitalize on ICTs to support the promotion and realization of gender equality, women's rights, women's empowerment. We hope that a new post-2015 development agenda will give us greater impetus to achieve real transformation in gender inequality and on addressing unequal power relations between women and men, including through much more strategic use of and investment in ICTs. With you today are women and men who have demonstrated incredible vision, leadership, ingenuity, and commitment across a wide range of activities and sectors to making ICTs work for women's needs and women's interests. Joining them all, they represent many of the parts of the ICT ecosystem that must come together to make our goals a real reality. The work that we are recognizing and celebrating today will form a very important foundation for accelerated and expanded efforts going forward. In closing, I would like to very much thank our partner ITU for their great leadership and their partnership and incredible support for this award. You and women very much look forward to also welcoming the gender and ICT community at the Beijing Plus 20 celebrations on ICT next year and to hearing about the continued progress and achievements of all of our fantastic finalists and winners and to recognizing and very importantly celebrating the inspiring and important work of all those striving to ensure that ICTs contribute to achieving gender equality and women's empowerment worldwide. Thank you very much.