 This conference on ICT, organized by International Telecom Union, is very important and very timely, mainly because it's all about data. I believe the first phase of the telecom revolution is ending, and the second phase is about to begin. The first phase was all about connecting people. It took us 115 years to get to 1 billion phones, and then came Mobile Telephony. And all of a sudden cost came down, so it was affordable, as a result it was scalable, and now all of a sudden in 15 years we have added another 6 billion phones. So today we have roughly 7 billion phones in the world, and the world is basically connected, really to communicate with each other, but that's all about voice. Now the challenge is how do we use this network that we have set up, global network of connecting people to really enhance governance, education, health, security, agriculture, financial services. So now it's all about not just people talking to people, but also machine talking to people, machine talking to machine, and as a result there is huge potential for improving productivity, efficiency, reducing cost, and really expedite our developmental agenda. I believe it's important to understand that data requires great deal of standardization, great deal of understanding of how we are going to use data. For example we have open government platform, each government has their own data sets. How do these data sets be made available to public? How do we interact with data? How do we really collect information from data and derive knowledge? I think this is a whole new field. To me it is all about democratization of information. It's not just having data, it's democratizing information to empower people. So they in turn can go do their job better. It's all about strengthening democracies. So I see opening data in a very different way. It's not just giving you data. What do you do with the data? How do you use this data to really change your strategies? You see in a sense almost everything we did before Internet is essentially obsolete. Internet is changing everything. It's changing business model, delivery systems, services, products, marketing, sales, distribution, and as a result all of the things we do today need to be re-looked at. For example education. How do we educate people? With data we'll have better handle on how to improve education. Health services. We don't have good data on health services. Some of this data is fudged, some of the data is not accurate, some of it is obsolete. We need real-time data and I think the data revolution is going to create a whole new world in the 21st century.