 Good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you again. More than half of the commissioners here participating for the first time. Let me welcome you all and thank you for joining the team. You come at the right time because wide access to broadband is going to be an important factor in achieving the sustainable development goals. I therefore congratulate you for the work being done to align the broadband commission and indeed our respective institutions with a broader development framework. There is quite a lot to do. The State of Broadband 2015 report released earlier this week indicates that broadband growth is slowing down. Four billion people still have no internet access. There is an urgent need to reverse this trend. Fewer than 7% of households in the listed developed countries are connected. This is a problem, of course, but it also means there is a lot of room for growth. In Africa we are determined to seize this opportunity. An example is the SMART Africa initiative which encourages nations to invest more in infrastructure, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Before I conclude, I would like to invite you all to the Transform Africa Summit that will take place in Kigari, Rwanda next month. We'll be looking at SMART and sustainable ways to harness ICT for Africa's development and your contributions would be most welcome. I thank you and look forward to today's discussion. Thank you once again.