 Dear WISIS stakeholders, as the United Nations Specialized Agency for Information and Communication Technologies, the ITU hosts and co-organizes along with UNESCO, UNDP, and OCTAC, the WISIS Forum on an annual basis. The WISIS Forum is a real demonstration of how the United Nations system joined forces to strengthen the enabling role of ICT for sustainable development goals. The Forum is a key multi-stakeholder platform for multi-stakeholder coordination of implementation as well as collaboration and interplay among stakeholders of government, private sector, civil society, technical community, and academia. The WISIS Forum 2017 will be held from the 12th to 16th of June at the ITU headquarters Geneva, Switzerland. The main theme of this year's WISIS Forum is information and knowledge societies for sustainable development goals. This year, we are expecting 2,500-plus physical participants at the Forum. 150-plus countries represented, 120-plus ministers and deputies, 200-plus workshops and sessions, and 18 WISIS Prize winners. I look forward to welcoming you at the WISIS Forum 2017. Together, we can turn the outcomes of the annual WISIS Forum into real actions on the ground by connecting all stakeholders implementing ICTs to achieve the SDGs at the national, regional, and global level.