PacINET is organised each year by PICISOC, an active chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC), covering 22 Pacific islands states and territories with a membership of over 400 individuals across the region. ISOC is a professional membership organisation with around 100 organisational and over 26,000 individual members in more than 180 countries.

About 300 local, regional and international participants attended PacINET 2007 at the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) conference centre. They took part in a busy programme of conference sessions, parallel workshops and meetings of special interest groups.

These meetings included a Pacific ICT Regulators' Summit supported by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, an Asia Pacific Top Level Domains (APTLD) association meeting, and an IPv6 Forum (IPv6 is the next generation Internet).

The main conference was split into two strains - policy and technical - with workshops also conducted and providing training to participants.
There was strong Solomon Islands participation in PacINET 2007.

PICISOC chairman Rajnesh Singh said moving the conference around helps spread ICT knowledge and developments throughout the region.
"It's good to see a lot of local IT people and other interested people coming in to attend the conference," he said.

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