 Ladies and gentlemen, it's our pleasure to introduce Mr. Carlos Slim the co-chair of our meeting. Thank you Good morning to all Excellencies industry leaders distinguished colleagues ladies and gentlemen It is a real pleasure to be with with all of you again at a new meeting of the broadband Commission for Digital Development It is also an honor to co-chair this meeting. Good my friend. His Excellency President Paul Kagami President of the Republic and of Rwanda that is coming later And to have by my side The two co-visit chairs of the Commission dr. Hamadun Tourez Secretary-General of ITU and Irina Bokova Director General of UNESCO This is our sixth meeting since we started our work back in 2010 It has been three years of activity and progress Building the case for the potential of broadband networks services and applications To drive economic growth bring social inclusion and promote sustainable development During this period our Commission has maintained a very practical approach Focus on producing concrete deliverables and clear recommendations for policy makers And the industry and the academy the civil society and other stakeholders During the meeting we will have today We will be presenting our latest report the state of broadband 2012 Which has been produced with inputs provided by all of us The report present a clear progress we are making towards the Commission targets for 2015 And we can say very proudly that our Commission and the organization that we represent Have contributed to make the progress possible We will receive further information on this topic during the day But even if we have been successful in this work We shouldn't stop here. We still have two more years of work Up to 2015 and there are still many challenges that need to be addressed Let me highlight some of the areas that I believe should be addressed In our next activities Broadband can help small and medium enterprises To compete and improve their productivity Allowing them to create new jobs offer value-added services and access to new markets This is an area that we are that we will further explore during the upcoming two years and on this regard We could consider adding a new target for our 2013 report to make sure the access of a small and medium in enterprises to broadband The second element Is the need to focus on groups of the population Such as women and youth that they're still not fully benefiting from from broadband In Mexico, we are working with these groups and providing them the tools and in training to improve They would education and bring them to labor market even at executive levels Exignific a significant example of this area is the work. We are going to help and Do to avoid the lack of education and take people to the digital culture With broadband we can positively engage our youth to contribute to the building of prosperous communities and I've under ready eradicating the lack of education and opportunities that often result in despair and crime It's a very important now to use the the technology For education it is not possible to Multiplicate the university campus the professors the cost investments and we need to move from the traditional education To the technology technological education and in this we need to be with broadband like a way to do that Finally, I like to continue Facing emphasizing the need to promote local content and applications To achieve this we need to work at many different levels including promoting and training of a skilled professionals Providing funds so developers can create you know, but innovative applications and show causing best practice best practices Like you remember best practices is one of the things that we've talked Since the beginning and it's very important to know what is done in the countries And take the best practices of these countries and the experience they have to put to work in our countries This is something that we all are also doing in our country Through the initiative site present in past meetings of the Commission and I will be happy to present directly to you In our next meeting of the Commission to be held in March 2013 in Mexico We wait you we will very happy to welcome you in Mexico for the next meeting in March of next year Let me bring this challenge and ideas to the discussion together. We're building broadband inclusion for all In particular for those who need it most Thank you very much