 Thank you very much for giving me a chance to talk about these these numbers because they're extremely important and Though I hate to be the bearer of bad news. I'm afraid that the numbers this year don't look good. We've been running this research and analysis since 2017 now and In 2021 it was the first time that we saw actually an increase of the mobile gender gap. It increased from 15 to 16 percent 16 percent might not seem much, but if you look at the absolute numbers it translates into 264 million fewer women than men who have access to the mobile internet That's a quarter of a billion and we know it's particularly important because People in low and middle-income country mostly use their mobile to access the mobile internet So if you're not accessing the internet through your mobile you're probably not accessing your the internet overall which creates a loss of Economic and social opportunities Given the size of the issue it certainly looks like a daunting task But we have a lot of experience and there's a lot that we can learn from First of all, you need the data and I think gender desegregated data is extremely important We're extremely thankful for the UK FCDO and Swedish CEDA to help us do this This research once you have the data what you need is targets every Organization private sector public sector civil society needs to set targets around gender and once you have the targets You need to act and in particular we've clearly identified what the barriers are in terms of mobile internet access They affect men they affect women, but the disproportionately affect women the three key barriers are the affordability in particular affordability of handsets And what we've seen in 2021 is the mobile gender gap in terms of smartphone access has also increased So this issue is also increasing, but you also have the digital and general literacy skills and the awareness of the internet And to that you could have safety and security you could have lack of access but also lack of relevant services So you really everybody can play a role in making sure that we Target and we act to bridge the gender gap This is the part that really gives me hope because we now have like quite a few examples of Actions that help reach the gap in particular our connected woman program through its commitment campaign since 2016 have been working with Mobile operator to help reach the gap. We work with more than 40 mobile operators A lot of them across Africa and emerging Asia in particular who have collectively set targets After obviously analyzing their own gender gender gap and design specific actions to bring women online through those actions in the past five years They have managed to bring 55 million additional women online. So that's for us. It's obviously a great success story But when it comes to addressing the barriers on affordability For instance Safari coming Kenya has done a lot to help put smartphones in in the hands of women or the state government in India as well is doing a lot and if you think of digital literacy in particular MTN in Africa has done a lot around digital skills working in particular with our miss digital toolkit So overall there's a lot out there and as long as you set targets act But also share knowledge We think there's a lot that can be done and at the end of the day, it's extremely important It's the only way that we can help reach SDG number five around gender equality And as we all know when women thrive economies and society thrive