 The annual GemTech Awards are an important way in which ITU and UN Women recognize the tremendous power of ICTs to transform the lives of girls and women everywhere. I congratulate not just this year's winners and the finalists, but all the amazing projects that were submitted a truly inspiring global effort. I'm co-founder and executive chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation. I'm proud to support the GemTech Awards and the recognition of outstanding work and the promotion of gender equality with technology. Technology plays a critical role in the empowerment of every woman and girl in providing access to education and economic opportunities to enabling personal and professional growth. Switzerland cares about digital equality, empowering women and girls through ICTs. We proudly support the GemTech Awards and extend our warm congratulations to the winners. For their accomplishments in utilizing ICTs to reduce the gender digital divide and mainstream the inclusion of women, girls in the use of ICTs, here are the winners of the 2015 GemTech Awards. Applying technology for women's empowerment. The Research Centre of Communication and Development Knowledge Management, Thailand. Since 2006, CCTKM has set up itself with the mission of ICT for the marginalized empowerment. And then women and girls are one among them also include with others disability group and others. So with the decade of development that we have done with a lot of partners in using ICT to empowering all the marginalized people more than 300,000 people are trained with ICT. We are very proud but anyhow still a challenge in ICT for gender empowerment in Thailand. This is our mission to prolong. So we hope that all the partners can still working with CCTKM to achieve our gender and ICT empowerment. Promoting Women in a Technology Sector. Technovation Challenge. So we should start with the problem. In our school we have 67 cases of COVID-19 because of the water. 18% of women engaged in self-harm and 6% of men said the same. Drunk driving has plagued real problems such as women's safety, waste removal and childhood obesity. I see a lot of problems in our town. We don't have boxes for garbage. Who knows better the problems in the community than the people? A business in technology competition, you have the ability to practice your English, learn some new things. My computer science teacher sent out this huge email to all the students about Technovation. Welcome to the Technovation Pearl Kitchen competition. You need to find the girls to do it. Most of the girls were like no, computer science is for boys. Only 7% of tech startups are led by women. And I feel like I look everywhere and like that's a problem and then this app could solve it. This is the next social media button. We are sophomores and we're all 15 years old. Elclina, Rina, I'm Sefa and by the way... You want to make it perfect. An actual problem and finding a way to solve it like that is a really good feeling. Developing gender responsive ICT, governance policy and access. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Senegal. The reinforcement of the role of the responsibility and the participation of women in the development of all sectors is a priority for the government of Senegal. The new technology of information and communication. Our ambition in any case is to promote female entrepreneurship through the team. Women's entrepreneurship. But also to take care of gender problems in the different public policies. Our ambition is to set up a place where we can support innovation. Where we can support women and girls in the tech sector. And we wish that there will be a global alliance for women's entrepreneurship through the new technology of information and communication. And I think it's possible. Global achievers. The opportunity costs for non-inclusion of women in national mainstream is immense. I strongly believe that women empowerment using ICTs is a key driver for transformation to knowledge society. In my own capacity we focus our work on the most disadvantaged of our women and young girls and to provide them the opportunities that they well and truly deserve. We are taking whatever measures that are required to empower women and young girls of my country through the use of ICTs. We've come up with a new cross-cutting initiative focused on protecting and empowering women and girls and it's called The Future She Deserves. We've been bringing together key diplomats, agency heads, industry experts and business leaders around the same table really forcing each other to think outside the box. These are powerful decision makers. We believe that by working together across sectors, men and women that we can drive toward innovative solutions and really have a profound impact. I'm Nancy Hafkin. I'm greatly honored to have been chosen by ITU and UN Women to be a recipient of the 2015 GEM Tech Award in recognition of the work that I have done for over 25 years to promote gender equality and information technology. This is an area that I think is of tremendous importance for girls and women all over the world.