Garth Graham has extensive Canadian and international experience in enabling communities and governments to apply Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in community development and to plan national strategies for ICT use. In a career that spans work in Yukon Territory, East Africa and Vietnam, he has been dedicated to ensuring that decision-making about the development choices which communities face occurs at the community level. He says, "Creating situations where people can define their own choices about what they want to be or do motivates me."
Since 1993, he has been committed to the cause of community networking. Via his policy research work with Telecommunities Canada, a national voice for the practices of community networking, and others, he now has 18 years experience in the collaborative development of capacity for community use of ICTs, and in the design of national and local programs to support the evolution of community networking practices. He has also been active with Canadian citizens' organizations concerned with the public policy debate on Canada's transition to a knowledge society and a digital economy. His home base and page is now in Victoria, British Columbia.
Currently, Garth Graham and SALASAN are partnering as project monitors for CIDA's Electronic Governance for Efficiency and Effectiveness (E3) Project in the Philippines.