 Dear friends, colleagues, it gives me great pleasure to contribute once again to safer internet day, which is such an important part of efforts to improve the safety and security of the tools we use and rely on each and every day. The team of this year's event is creating a better internet together. I think the key is that last word together. It's a word that we hear very often, a word that is very easy to pronounce. But in reality, the concept of global collaboration is not so easily implemented. That is why safer internet day is such a great example of how the international community can collaborate in a harmonized way to create a better environment for our children. As an intergovernmental organization, ITU is helping leverage the effort of a host of different partners around the world. We are also raising awareness of the issue to our global membership, which comprises 193 member states and more than 700 private sector members from across the ICT industry. ITU has a global reach, but we also understand how important it is to act at the local level between our communities. Step by step by empowering and involving children, young people, parents and teachers, we are striving to educate the next generation on what it means to be a good and responsible global citizen. Today, together with partners such as Action Innocence and ISC2, we are launching a series of interactive educational events around the safer internet day theme. We will be training our own staff in their capacity as parents and family members to use tools that help keep children safe online, as well as educating them about online risks. In parallel, we will be training kids aged 10 to 14 from local schools in the Geneva area to stay safe and secure online. These activities are a natural extension of ITU's highly successful Child Online Protection Initiative. Through a multi-stakeholder approach, we are helping our members to ensure they correctly and effectively implement best practice guidelines to that together strengthen the national, regional and international policy framework for child online safety. Promoting access to ICT is ITU's core mandate, but at the same time as fostering greater access for everybody, we recognize the vital needs to ensure that ICTs are used in a responsible and safe manner, especially for our younger generation. I warmly encourage all of you to work together with us to make this happen. Thank you.