 Thank you for joining us at the World Summit on the Information Society 2017. I am very pleased to be joined today by Raoul Etiberia, Vice President of the Internet Society, ISOC. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you very much for the invitation. So ISOC was created 25 years ago now with a mission to promote the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefits of all throughout the world. So can you tell us about how much progress you have made towards this mission and your goal? I think that's in terms of how the Internet has changed the life of people. I think this is very clear that people now have opportunities that they didn't have before. There are many people from developing countries providing services to organizations that are abroad. There are new sources of incomes, new access to knowledge. The access to knowledge is much easier. The people that live usually in isolated places in the countryside of developing countries, but also in developing countries, they have new tools for their own social, human, economic development. Access to culture, the impact is everywhere. Now we can provide the medicine services to people that live in villages far from the main metropolis. So I could speak for hours and the good benefits, how the Internet has impacted in a positive way in the life of the people around the world. The Internet has changed society. It's also transforming currently the economy. We talk about digital transformation a lot. Yet nearly half the world remains unconnected today. That's a large figure, obviously. So what efforts are you doing to improve connectivity? This is a big challenge because despite the fact that we have already connected many people, half of the population, now the challenge is bigger because the digital gap is much bigger. The price that the people that are not connected are paying for not being connected is very high. We cannot let people behind. This is not fair. We are working on different areas in developing infrastructure, building communities, and feeding the policy debate. One of the things we are doing on infrastructure is deploying community networks together with many other partners. This is a way to demonstrate a few things. One is that it is possible to connect people even in remote places. We have the technologies, but we have to stop thinking about that people as being in the last mile. We have to consider them being in the first mile. If they should be the center of the problem, that's the way to solve it. The other thing that we have learned from the work that we are doing on community networks is that when you empower the communities, you get very good results. They need to know how they can be benefited by the technologies. If they don't feel the benefits, if they don't see the benefits, they will not want to be connected. This is a driver for connectivity. It's not only about infrastructure. Having infrastructure is important, but people need to see the benefits of being connected. We have a lot of stories around that that obviously we cannot share because of the time. We've talked about the internet as a force for good. Some of the participants here at the WISIS Forum have expressed concerns about the dark side of the internet and the fact that there is a lot of hate and abuse online. What is ISOC doing to alleviate the problem? That's a very important thing because we discuss this not only here. We discuss with our own families, friends about the same things. Sometimes we blame the internet for things that are not really caused by the internet. Terrorism is not an internet problem. Terrorism exists. The hate speech is the problem. We see the problem in the internet, but we have to continue fighting the hate speech everywhere. We have to continue working for peace. But of course, the internet has been used as a tool for bad purposes, as any other invention in the history of humankind. There are concerns, the concerns are fair, and we have to work together on how to minimize that. We want to continue working on the positive aspects of the internet. The internet is a platform for development. We have to work with governments and other stakeholders on how to minimize the other effects. But we have to be careful because sometimes, based on fair concerns, the issues that are taken are very negative. When we over-regulate the internet, we are affecting freedom of speech. We see the internet as an instrument for improving the exercise of human rights, not the opposite. So for punishing the bad guys, what we are doing sometimes is achieving exactly the opposite. We are putting restrictions on all the people, and this is not good. The over-regulation of the internet affects our possibilities of connecting the people that are not connected yet, and it affects our possibilities of making the internet relevant to them. So this is the same concerns on access and security. The policies and regulations should be catalyzed for development, not the opposite, not barriers. Mr Raul Echeberria, thank you very much. Thank you.