 Wajimiaweleqimilistimiawek nakazyo konwikota waanwa kwaitega wama feewa konwikata wapa eno yafilep kwaitegranda yidawe pa m Durvendiawek yafilep waiwa eno hrimaunlonga wansi waaqio za kwaitega kwaitega waanwa kwaitega wana yawingozumisha, yafilep, yafilep, yatawe Millionen kwaitega yatawe za kwaitega yafilep, yatawe hremban yatawe yatawe First time I would like to say we had the Prime Minister opening the event and this deputy was also present, the cabinet and about eight foreign ministers, not foreign ministers as in their status, but ministers coming from abroad and deputy ministers. We also hear Director-General of National Statistical Offices, Director-General of Telecommunications Regulator Authorities and many delegates from across the world. So it has been a very special experience here. I think since I mentioned the Measuring Information Society report, IDI, I think my colleague Susan Telshaw is the Head of Division for our statistics and indicators would be happy to share some insights on that. Yes, indeed this was a special location this year to launch the Measuring Information Society at this event, which also gives the audience who are mostly our counterparts in countries who actually provide us with the data an opportunity to see how the data are being used, how they are analyzed and how they can be used for policy making and by bringing in the policy makers as well to this event. It was a great merge of data production and data analysis for policy making. So this year's report has a few highlights, maybe I can start to mention a few. We already heard about the ICT Development Index, which is our main feature of the report where we assess progress in countries in terms of ICT Development every year and then we rank them and we show how countries have achieved higher levels of ICT Development over the year. So this is one of the main feature. We have had a special ceremony on this at the occasion of the event. Then we have a few other features in the report if I may continue. One is we are assessing progress in terms of ICT Development and provide quite a large number of data and indicators, the most recent that we get from our countries. So what we have seen over the past year is that wireless broadband is driving the growth in developing countries. There are a number of developing countries who have made a lot of progress on the ICT Development Index and that was primarily due to their launch of wireless broadband services and the associated very high uptake in those countries. But also I think one of the key highlights is to do with big data. We are going through a revolution and what we have noticed is that many of the private sector entities are taking advantage of the big data revolution but also of course most importantly the UN family and ITU would like to be in the forefront of that and we think we will do. We are experiencing a revolution where we have volumes of data that is flowing across the globe but in economics one would say we have to internalize externalities so we can benefit from that. We can use it to carry out analysis. People who are involved in marketing of course they can make decisions based on that but I would say the volume alone is massive. The value of that data is great and we also of course look at the velocity of the data because it moves in very high speeds but most importantly ITU has some substance in the sense that there is some velocity contending it so you can take based on correlation you can make a lot of decisions and in fact I would say that right now we are working on big data to make decisions on the Ebola case particularly in West Africa and across the globe because that can inform us on the transmissions of the disease but for investors also it is quite critical and I think there are the elements to the report as well. Yes and also just to complement perhaps so we have a major feature in the report looking at big data sources especially from the ICT industry which by itself is a major provider of big data and since we are trying to measure the information society and there are challenges in countries in terms of regularly collecting data and providing data on ICT big data sources from the ICT industry can complement the missing data that we are currently facing or can we can use them to produce new policy relevant indicators so we are in discussion with some of the data providers from the private industry they are also attending the meeting here to see how we can jointly move forward in terms of doing some concrete work on on big data for measuring the information society. We come from the projects and knowledge management department and our primary role in ITU is to make sure that we negotiate, formulate and implement projects across the globe and this touch on infrastructure, human capacity building and many other interesting areas and the idea is we have to go beyond the figures the indicators and statistics and put a human face to that so what we did was to make sure that we incorporated in the report some stories that touch on human life and the timing is great because we are just on the 11th hour of the millennium development goals we also as you are aware in 2003-2005 we had the two phases of the world information society and we are now entering a phase of review to see whether we achieved that which we had set ourselves to achieve and then we will just jump into the sustainable development goals era so we touched on many areas and we know for sure that the penetration levels as Susan has said have grown very high particularly for cellular mobile and the cellular mobile broadband mobile broadband and across the globe I think we have witnessed in terms of internet penetration and so forth real growth and you may be aware that even when the market is going through a financial crisis this sector that is resilient almost resilient is that of information communication technologies so we are busy making sure that we impact every facet of human life and coming back to the MDGs the millennium development goals that's also actually a special feature of this year's report because we have done some analysis to compare the progress in ICT development with the progress on the MDG goals and indicators and we found some very interesting correlations in terms of countries making progress in ICT but also on certain development goals especially those to poverty reduction and health and some others so we are really trying to see how the data and the numbers can also tell us more about progress in other development areas