PLANETWORK was founded in 1998 by Erik Davis, Jim Fournier, Elizabeth Thompson and David Ulansey to create a forum for exploring the role that the Internet and information technology can play in creating an ecologically sustainable future. For tax purposes PLANETWORK is a project of SEE, the Social and Environmental Entrepeneurs, a California 501c3 non-profit umbrella organization.

The PLANETWORK conference production team includes:

Jim Fournier: co-director
Elizabeth Thompson: co-director
Erik Davis: programming
J.P. Harpignies: consulting
Cate Gable: marketing & PR
Rick Harris: administrative assistant
Heather Reid: presenter liaison
Mike Vincenty: network administrator
Doug Piercy: database & newsserver
Peggy Nelson: web design and media graphics

Addional collaborators in the ever evolving PLANETWORK collective include: David Ulansey, Stephen Foster, Heather Newbold and Anita Sieff

PLANETWORK's first event was a small invitational gathering in July, 1999. Our current effort is the PLANETWORK Conference, May 12-14, 2000 at the Presidio in San Francisco.

Link to the PLANETWORK Database Listserver