 Good morning. Excellencies, dear colleagues, it is a real pleasure to be once again at the meeting of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development and we are talking with Hamadun how glad we are of the presence of all of you and the interest that is maintained after a few years working and it's really very stimulating to be all together with so much good assistance. Thank you for coming to all of you. I am honored to chair this meeting with my co-chair and dear friend, his Excellency President Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda as well as with the two CoVC chairs of the Commission, Dr. Hamadun Ture, Secretary General of ITU and Irina Vokova, Director General of UNESCO. It's a pleasure to be with you here today in New York like I was telling you before. I am also very pleased to see that the Commission continues to have a very strong momentum and energy. The presence is looking that and I thank everyone of you for your continuous participation, dedication and commitment to the fulfillment of the objectives of this Commission. As you know, the Broadband Commission was launched by the ITU and UNESCO in response to UN United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who called to step up efforts to meet the millennium development goals and MDGs. The MDGs should be a strong partnership to direct actions at the national, international levels and they should be a shared responsibility. It is certain that the Broadband can make a tremendous contribution towards the attainment. At this aid meeting, we will be sharing the results of our work and continue our discussions on how to continue promoting Broadband inclusion for all as well as how to use Broadband enabled services and applications to build a sustainable future and a better world. With regards to results, today we will be presenting a new set of reports produced collectively by members of the Commission. And let me highlight in particular the annual report of the Commission, the State of Broadband 2013, which presents a snapshot of the progress made at the global level to universalize Broadband. This report is the result of the compilation of new information, evidence and best practices gathered by all you and the use of Broadband for the social good. I invite all of you to actively promote this report in the forthcoming months. We will also present today new reports on the use of Broadband to achieve gender equality, to promote digital inclusion of persons with disabilities and a new advocacy piece that will be used in the context of the post-2015 Development Agenda. The chairs of each of these groups will describe these initiatives. But in addition to present our work, we will also use this opportunity to continue exchanging ideas about new challenges and future initiatives that we could undertake together as we approach the year 2015 in which we will have to assess if the world has met the Broadband targets that we defined in 2011. In particular, we will pay special attention at this meeting to the perspective of the industry and the private sector on how to promote investment to expand access to Broadband. We will also look at new opportunities and obstacles faced by our sectors and how we can find collective solutions to address these challenges. We will also look at the overall discussion currently taking place at the United Nations on how to define a future Development Agenda after 2015 internally. We all agree that Broadband and ICT should be incorporated into this agenda. These are just some of the elements that we will be discussing today. Our deliberations can provide a fresh look to these issues and hopefully bring new ideas and lines of future work that we can continue throughout 2014. Thank you.