Tuesday, 5 October Italy Italy is ready to serve ITU in the new mandate and is grateful for your support to its candidatures at the Council and at the Radio Regulation Board. We strongly believe in ICT is an essential enabling fac-tor offering innovative and technologically advanced solutions. The Government considers of critical im-portance the issue of security and calls for a shared approach in the definition and implementation of adequate strategies. in improving social and economic development and in making the people citizens of the world. Italy strongly believes that the development of ICT needs to be human-centered, allowing access to all in a free, user-friendly, competitive and secure cyberspace, with specific attention to those who are disadvantaged and in need of protection. We will keep it at the core of our action together with our partners of ITU and the Secretariat, investing human and financial resources in all the areas in-volved, Thank you, Chairman promoting policies and the marketplace, investment and regulation, training and research in a shared effort, to make ICT freer, more robust, secure and accessible to all. As regards the WSIS IGF process, Italy favours a fully representative approach to Internet governance, in-ternationally inclusive and also ensuring that the countries facing challenges in terms of resources and language skills are enabled to take part; the glo-bal character of the Internet requires that all gov-ernments are in a position to fulfil the responsibility in relation to Internet governance and growth. Our high-profile commitment in ITU is in the num-bers of our financial contribution, one of the high-est, to its budget and in the preparation of the stra-tegic and financial plans for the period 2012-2015; in the value of the Italian participation to the activ-ities of the Union and new initiatives promoted by the Secretary-General, through experts and compa-nies that provide their know-how in all the areas of competence of ITU. 53