 The private sector has been making significant contributions through a range of groundbreaking initiatives and public-private partnerships including the private sector and multi-stakeholder policy discussions enables the exchange of views, perspectives and lessons learned as regulators and policymakers consider the most effective approaches to advanced development in their respective countries and regions. The problems that we are facing are terribly complex and governments cannot work in ivory towers. Industry has a major role to play in feeding public debates with facts and figures to inform government of the possible outcome of the different policy options. The private sector has an enormous responsibility in shaping the future of ICT development. If policymaking is unduly influenced or exclusive in some way it will miss its own objectives and in fact not touch people's lives. The opportunity on the other hand is to involve everyone and so give policymaking the best chances of success because by getting it right we do transform people's lives. ICT technology benefits the world and its population. As a member of the international private sector we pursue a very close collaboration with the three sectors of ITU and for their own functions and we want to make contributions. We think we have been making contributions and we can continue to make our contributions. Industry and private sector are two important limbs for growth of telecoms. Even if you see historically telecoms were a monopoly when they started out and mostly government organizations. However over a period of time these monopolies have converted to private sector play across the globe. So together you know we can really work to shape the future of the ICT development. I believe that part of our job is ensuring that the private sector understands the ITU and its role and understands all of the possibilities for that collaboration and for multi-stakeholderism in general.