Throughout
Asia and the Pacific Rim, Internet service providers, backbone
and regional networks, web hosting facilities, firewalls,
and Intranets are being created, deployed, and installed
at a staggering pace. The technicians, managers, entrepeneurs
and decision-makers responsible are under tremendous pressure
to master the skills necessary to build and operate these
increasingly complex systems.
The
mission of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference
on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) is to provide a forum
for those key Internet builders in the region to learn from
their peers and other leaders in the Internet community
from around the world.
Held
annually, the ten day long summit consists of seminars,
workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather
(BOFs), and other forums all with the goal of spreading
and sharing the knowledge required to operate the Internet
within the Asia Pacific region.
In
an attempt to ease the travel burden on attendees, APRICOT
is held in conjunction with one of the Asia Pacific Network
Information Center's (APNIC) two annual meetings, the winter
Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) meeting, and meetings
of other Asia Pacific Internet organisations.
Wherever
possible, APRICOT also attempts to derive synergy by having
the meetings close to or back-to-back with other Internet
events such as Asia Internet World, ICANN etc.
- APRICOT's
mission is to develop and advance the skills and understanding
necessary to grow a robust Internet infrastructure in
the Asia-Pacific region. APRICOT is about bringing the
world's top Internet experts together with those who
can most benefit from their knowledge.
- APRICOT
attendees are the key builders of Asia's Internet. Many
of the world's best Internet engineers attend APRICOT
either to teach, present or do their own human networking.
- APRICOT
provides its sponsors the chance to participate in a
quality, content-rich event with excellent opportunities
to target their products and services at the decision-makers
in the Asia Pacific Internet community.
- APRICOT's
primary goal is to provide a vehicle for the transfer
of technology and techniques to the Asia and Pacific
Rim region. As such, our attendance fees are set below
those of the more promotionally orientated conferences
and in fact are set to match the fees found at many
similar Internet Operator Group meetings.
- APRICOT
is an activity supported by various Asia Pacific Internet
organisations as well as numerous individuals who give
freely of their time and talent, and is not a commercial
profit making venture. Any surplus funds are rolled
over to keep attendance fees low at the next APRICOT
event and support outreach activities in the less developed
areas of the Asia and Pacific region.
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In
September 2002, the APRICOT Executive Committee and the
APIA Board agreed that APIA and APRICOT should work more
closely together. And as from March 2003, APIA became the
legal entity supporting the APRICOT conference effort. APRICOT
is now APIA's main activity, with the board working with
the APRICOT Advisory Committee (formerly the Exco) to ensure
the future development and growth of APRICOT.
The
revised organisation has the APIA Board responsible for
the legal entity which supports APRICOT, with the APRICOT
Advisory Committee replacing the function of the Executive
Committee, and the APRICOT Management Committee taking on
the day to day role of working with the local host on the
APRICOT conference organisation and programme. The APIA
Board has delegated the APRICOT Secretariat responsibility
to PIKOM as from 1st September 2003.
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What is APRICOT? 
