 Thank you very much. President Kagami, Mr. Carlos Lim, co-chairs of our commission. Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, it's a great pleasure to be with you here once again for this four meeting of the broadband commission. I'm grateful to our co-chairs, His Excellency Porokagami and Mr. Carlos Lim for their personal presence. I'm also very grateful to my co-vice chair, Madam Andrea Ozure, who is here for the first time. I'm sure that under their leadership, we shall further strengthen our mission. I wish to welcome new commissioners and our guest participants. Later on, I will invite them to stand up, to give a chance to everybody to see who they are. As many of you will recognize, I'm pleased to say that the commission goes from strength to strength. This year, also saw the launch of our updated global broadband target to bring online the worth 3.8 billion people currently not connect to the internet at the special session in Davos in January, attended by many of you as well as heads of UN agencies and industry CEOs. The targets track some of the most important policy priorities in broadband, and we continue to receive widespread media interest in them. The commission benefited from a truly memorable spring session in Kigali, Rwanda in May, co-hosted by our co-chair, His Excellency President Porokagami of Rwanda and Carlos Lim, and then we have co-host at Mr. Mats Grignard of the GSMA for co-hosting. And all participants were very honored to be invited to join the Transform Africa Summit. Memorandum's event, which demonstrated that Africa does not only follow, but can also lead the way in technological development. The commission continues to host a number of very active working groups with three reports published today, and I should like to commend all the working group chairs on the thorough and extensive work they have undertaken over the last year. We have seen important policy recommendations emerging in the area of digital health, epidemic, preparedness and digital entrepreneurship. Distinguished colleagues, this year's State of Broadband 2018 report published at ITU telecom 2018 last week shows that the milestone of the 50-50 moment of internet connectivity is likely to be achieved very soon. From Humber beginnings only three decades ago, getting half of the world population online is an incredible achievement. However, as everyone in this room knows, this is not just a number of games, but it's vitally important to foster high-quality comprehensive digital skills and build national competitiveness in the ICT sector. So our first session today considers how the web will change as more people come online. Are we headed towards cultural and linguistic diversity or dominance? And will real world trends in the loss of languages accelerate or be reversed as the web grows to include the next four billion people? Meanwhile, the policy landscape must also change to accommodate the growth of the internet. More and more of our real world processes are moving online, including personal identification, verification and authentication, banking and voting as well as all sorts of purchases and reservations. We heard this year's global symposium for regulators here in Geneva in July from senior policy makers how they are realizing the importance of regulatory safeguards for data and data protection as a vital step for joining the digital economy. So our second session here this morning, we are examining how the landscape for tech regulation is changing. We have seen significant recent policy developments, and I look forward to hearing what commissioners have to say about these subjects, and I cannot finish without mentioning the new commissioners who are joining us here today for the first time. So I would like to ask you to give a warm welcome to our commissioners. Thank you very much. President Kagami, Mr. Carlos Slim, co-chairs of our commission. Excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, it's a great pleasure to be with you here once again for this four meeting of the broadband commission. I'm grateful to our co-chairs, His Excellency Porokagami and Mr. Carlos Slim, for their personal presence. I'm also very grateful to my co-vice chair, Madam Andrea Ozure, who is here for the first time. I'm sure that under their leadership, we shall further strengthen our mission. I wish to welcome new commissioners and our guest participants. Later on, I will invite them to stand up to give a chance to everybody to see who they are. As many of you will recognize, I'm pleased to say that the commission goes from strength to strength. This year also saw the launch of our updated global broadband targets to bring online the world's 3.8 billion people currently not connected to the Internet at the special session in Davos in January, attended by many of you as well as heads of UN agencies and industry CEOs. The targets track some of the most important policy priorities in broadband, and we continue to receive widespread media interest in them. The commission benefited from a truly memorable spring session in Kigali, Rwanda in May. Co-hosted by our co-chair is Excellency President Procargami of Rwanda and Carlos Lee. And then we have co-host at Mr. Mats Grignard of the GSMA for co-hosting. And all participants were very honored to be invited to join the Transform Africa Summit. Memorandum's event which demonstrated that Africa does not only follow but can also lead the way in technological development. The commission continues to host a number of very active working groups with three reports published today. And I should like to commend all the working group chairs on the thorough and extensive work they have undertaken over the last year. We have seen important policy recommendations emerging in the area of digital health, epidemic, pre-paragraphiness and digital entrepreneurship. Distinguished colleagues, this year's State of Broadband 2018 report published at ITU telecom 2018 last week shows that the milestone of the 50-50 moment of internet connectivity is likely to be achieved very soon. From humble beginnings only three decades ago, getting half of the world population online is an incredible achievement. However, as everyone in this room knows, this is not just a number of games, but it's vitally important to foster high-quality comprehensive digital skills and build national competitiveness in the ICT sector. So our first session today considers how the web will change as more people come online. Are we headed towards cultural and linguistic diversity or dominance? And will real world trends in the laws of languages accelerate or be reversed as a web grows to include the next four billion people? Meanwhile, the policy landscape must also change to accommodate the growth of the internet. More and more of our real world processes are moving online, including personal identification, verification and authentication, banking and voting, as well as all sorts of purchases and reservations. We heard this year's global symposium for regulators here in Geneva in July from senior policy makers how they are realizing the importance of regulatory safeguards for data and data protection as a vital step for joining the digital economy. So our second session here this morning, we are examining how the landscape for tech regulation is changing. We have seen significant recent policy developments and I look forward to hearing what commissioners have to say about these subjects.