Internet extraordinaire knows how to be innovative on the world wide web

NEXT month, The North Coast Innovation Festival will bring one ofits workshops, focused on helping individuals, businesses, communitygroups and associations translate ideas into action, to Grafton.

Ian Peter will visit the Valley to discuss how the internet hasbeen deliberately structured as a platform on which multipleinnovations can succeed, and some of the characteristics which havehelped create the internet as a permissionless innovative ecosystem.

Ian began his pioneering experiences with internet usage in theAsian Pacific region in 1986, when he was commissioned by UnitedNations Environment Program to create an email network of peakenvironmental NGOs in the Asia Pacific Region. From that earlyexperiment, Ian went on to be a founding director of the globalAssociation for Progressive Communications in 1989.

By 1993 he had created global links to non-profit networks acrossmore than 100 countries and was one of the significant buildingblocks of the evolving internet. This also involved setting up andmanaging the growth of Australia's pioneering internet serviceprovider Pegasus Networks.

In more recent years Ian Peter has pursued a number of internettechnology-based initiatives and managed projects across informationmanagement, content management and knowledge management. He has alsoprovided specialist services in internet and intranet siteestablishment and produced the Internet Analysis Report. Ian Peteralso maintains an internet history portal at www.nethistory.info,and is a judge for the International Web Marketing Awards. He isalso an active participant in the United Nations Internet GovernanceForum, a meeting place for governments, corporations, civil societyand the internet industry to discuss evolution of governance for themedium.

Cost is $25. To book your place, call James Patterson on 66426183or email james.patterson@graftonchamber.org.au