 Today, the 9th of June 2014, the area around the United Nations is pretty quiet. It's a holiday in Geneva. But the buildings of the International Telecommunication Union are full of life, with delegates arriving from around the world for the World Summit of the Information Society plus 10 high-level events. It's an important week for the ITU, the UN agency responsible for coordinating the event. But Secretary-General Hamad-Unturi is confident it will be a success. 10 years after the wishes, the ideals that we are fighting for are still alive. And to me, that's the most important thing here this week. We're seeing so much excitement, 1600 delegates coming and looking at the preparatory process, over 500 input documents. In the most multi-stakeholder model ever seen before, therefore I'm very much excited about this. This is a moment for us at ITU to continue to show our ability to build the bridges. Many workshops have already started taking place today, and these workshops are central to the WESIS process, and that's very much the multi-stakeholder, bottom-up approach involving civil society, the private sector and international organisations. We are sharing knowledge, experience and best practices with many ICT practitioners. So this year I'm expecting to get more people to know, more people to help me to establish many projects into that. Of the international organisations and the family of UN, you tend to be more accepting of people from other sectors and NGOs and organisations like ours. And the fact that we're involved in some very common concepts and issues means that it's important to get together and talk about these things so we have not only a common vocabulary but a common understanding. There's also a high level track taking place this week involving government representatives. Delegates are currently negotiating the wording of some key outcome documents. We'll of course bring you the progress of those talks later this week.