 Well, good afternoon to everybody I want to to start by sending a warm Salute from our president and President de Moreno couldn't be here. He's preparing our annual meeting so he Invite us the technical team to chair today the good thing is that He brought with us a lot of experience in the region that we hope we will inspire some of the solutions to the difficult questions that have been posed by By a doctor today. I want to thank the government of Ireland Did he sell and the broadband Commission for inviting us today and for its warm welcome But I wanted to extend also that thank you to the city of Dublin and the Dubliners who have been absolutely fantastic in welcoming us We invited today Professor Michael K who has been working actively in the last months and I think that's not need an introduction to help us structure The discussion and help us to put a good document after a fruitful discussion I wanted also to thank the members of the Commission working group that send us Very very useful comments and ideas that have been critical to set the course of the discussion that we're going to have today As you have in our paper in front of you we structure and again agenda that It's a structure in the way that we wanted to make this a very active dialogue We wanted to be an opportunity to bring ideas and to have a fruitful discussion So in order to do so what we did was to think about opening Presentation to warm us all up and that will be done by Martin cave And I think that would set some ideas for the dialogue and I think is a very motivating Point of departure for the discussion and we don't want to expect after a long set of presentations to have your reactions So what we think is immediately after he does the presentation if we can make a short a round of Reactions to his presentation on his paper will be ideal and that will be followed by some Three presentations that have been brought to us today that I think bring very interesting ideas that we have to consider One by Alcatel Lucent and other by Intel and the other by Recipco And after that we will have an open discussion I will pass the floor to to Martin cave to help us to Direct the discussion to make sure that he squeeze out of all the members of This group all the ideas for the benefit of the final document that we start to Develop us we go along and finally I would like to close with some agreements on the basics Direction and contents of the document Setting the next step is steps and more important with a very clear timetable to make sure that we do a good job And we do it on time One thing as you might see and I skip the coffee break and that was intentional not to Deprive you from the coffee But actually we thought that the dialogue could flow as we go and we're trying to See how it goes if we stay here and we discuss the coffees open or for us outside. I understand so if somebody sees that Well, you see that everybody is sleeping We will make sure that we change the plan, but we hope that that will not be the case So taking on where dr. Ture left his introductory remarks I think it's clear that the financial investment needs a huge The numbers go runs in the trillions numbers come from 30 trillion 50 trillion And we don't know even what that Intels I think when you see that it seems almost impossible to achieve and I think part of the Task of this commission is to set the path that this is possible and could be finance But one thing that is clear is that we require the action of the public sector and the private sector and That brings me to one idea that I wanted to propose today and Is what is the purpose of this document? Who is the audience for this document is what is what we want? And we thought why don't think about these ideas under the questions of Dr. Ture that the document creates a path for dialogue and action between the public and the private sector and Usually we can do a document that is academic and very very solid We can do one that all this audience is like preaching to the choir But they are actors that require and need and want a clear discussion for the future I think that remains in the public sector My experience working line America and the Caribbean and I want to overextend that shows that we have Excellent dialogue with the telecommunication ministers But we the ones that we wanted to bring to the table is the policymakers and particularly the ministry of finance Those are the ones that take the decisions on finance So if we make this document a very solid document on the issues that we want to raise But in a way that is a live document that we could discuss with them in search for common action I think will be a success So we know that the financial needs are huge and we know that the private sector will provide the majority of Such finance, but it needs a framework and a regulatory environment that allow the private sector to do so so how we can attract the attention of the Public actors the policymakers and I think despite the fact that this huge number on how much we need on the public On on on the finance and investment I think one thing that we have to underline is what is the cost of not doing it Which I think present the case not only about the huge and almost Uncertainable task of getting the 50 billion dollars But also that there's no option that for the government and policymakers in their own countries There's no way to avoid the cost of not financing this and on this I wanted to bring something that comes in the context of the millennium development goals to is that the digital divide Nowadays is also the social divide and I think in a connected and global society the digital divide actually enlarges This social divide. So this is an urgency of the matter for policymakers and society To attend to this matter. We cannot overlook it. I think Dr. Ture pointed out that this is not about commerce or economic transaction This is very much the tool for social interaction and the interaction of the between the government and its citizens So it is very very important to attend to this matter Not because of how much we need to raise, but the cost that we will pay if we don't On this I think is very important from the point of inclusion talk about that socio-demographics to matter Financial solutions will change depending where you're going to or who you're going to reach and how the population is deployed And on that very short. I wanted to talk about Not only that we should talk about not only how to finance supply But also how to make sure that we have Finance for demand that we have an effective demand and I mentioned with that Not only access but also adoption and use and I think today We're going to have a very very interesting discussion on things that are being done, which are extremely innovative So again thinking about I wanted to propose that we address the questions that Dr. Ture put to the table and we think about those in How to present public intervention tools with high productivity hopefully low cost and Possible implementation so we can present social sort of a path or menu for very very different countries to start a very productive dialogue and With a very clear presentation of facts and options. So the path for action is is is clear So I invite apart from the very technical discussions that in the final report We're very aware of the audience when we want to make this not an excellent document but a live document that actually we can bring with us and I with us meaning you and I mean the Development banks like the one that I work with in which you can go to go and present something that instead of being these Panic number that will paralyze everybody is there's a way of moving ahead and there are some excellent ideas Because we have to know that there's no going to be one solution even best practices are only Illustrative of things that could happen. We have to fit into national strategies So one solution does not fit all and we but we have the opportunity to influence those national strategies and Provide solutions that fit in them So again, I think we have the opportunity to identify direct actions for public sector intervention Join actions for public and private Interventions private sector innovation and also an opportunity to see how we can tap and tap resources a Final point that I wanted to do is that in my long experience working with Developing countries and bridging public and private sector One thing that is not only what to do, but how to do it The road to success is exactly that I wrote and if we don't think about how you go about those steps My experience is that change takes place extremely Slowly and all almost always in a very ineffective way so I Encourage us to think about at some point institutional arrangements For change is not only that the institutions are solid are good the regulation is good If we want to have change we have to think what is institutional arrangement to make that change happen How to put all the actors together and who's going to take care that that happens? I think we can do that the contribution to the discussion on the on the progress ahead will be huge So with that I thank you very much again for the honor To the IDB to to chair this this group and let's put ourselves to work and with that I am I would like to pass the floor to Martin cave