 Hello. Today we would like to invite you to contribute to the ITU's strategies and priorities for the coming years. The International Telecommunication Union is currently developing its strategic plan for 2016-2019. And your views will help us ensure that we deliver the maximum value to our members, all the stakeholders, every user of ICT services, and ultimately everyone on the planet. We have launched this interactive platform to make it easier for you to contribute. We also welcome your views via email to strategy at itu.int. We are living through a very exciting period in human history. We are about to see as many mobile subscriptions as there are people on the planet. And by the end of this year, some 2.7 billion people will be using the Internet with 2.1 billion active mobile broadband subscriptions. As we enter into 2014, however, almost 70% of people in the developing world will still be offline, without access to the world's greatest library, the world's most active marketplace, and the world's greatest social gathering. ITU, with our commitment to connecting the world, continues to help to bring everyone online, ensuring that the global communications infrastructure runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible, enabling everybody to access the benefits of ICTs and assisting in mitigating new risks. All three sectors of ITU are working to make a difference through spectrum allocation and satellite coordination, through new standards, through policy development, and through the delivery of technical assistance to countries. Our work, defined by our membership, covers a very wide range of issues, from accessibility to e-health, from gender empowerment to interoperability, from cloud computing to machine-to-machine communications, from basic technologies to high-speed mobile broadband, from submarine cables to optical terrestrial fiber, and from microwaves, links to satellites. Without the work done here in ITU, in collaboration with governments, private sector, and civil society, there would be no radio, no phone, no television, and no Internet today. We recognize that our work priorities and strategies need to take into account opportunities and challenges presented by the rapidly changing environment. The Council of our Member States launched the development of a new strategic plan, which will be approved by ITU Planning Potential Conference in October 2014. In preparing my input to this work of the Council, I am asking for your input to the debate. Your views will help us better appreciate the effects that ICTs have now and will potentially have in the future on everyone's daily lives. It will also help us to identify how we should improve or adjust our work, where we should direct our efforts to best serve everyone, including you, and which challenges we should be prepared to meet. Your opinions count. Tell us what you expect from ITU in the future. Please share your views via the interactive platform, or submit your written contributions by email to strategyatITU.int. Thank you very much. I am looking forward to hearing from you.