Ted Sad to hear this. He was a very warm and inviting editor - very nice man - who asked me to peer review articles for the Journal of Communiy Informatics. Molly
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 4:11 PM t byfield <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sad to pass this news on. > > T > > < https://www.facebook.com/gurstein/posts/10155671874752457 > > > Michael Gurstein > > October 2, 1944 - October 8, 2017 > > Michael Gurstein was born on October 2, 1944 in Edmonton, Alberta, > Canada to Emanuel (Manny) and Sylvia Gurstein. While still an infant, > the family moved to Melfort, Saskatchewan where Manny grew up and his > family still lived. In Mike’s youth, Manny and Sylvia ran a successful > retail store. There, the family grew with a younger sister, Penny. > Mike excelled at school. He spent his summers working at a golf club in > Waskesiu and graduated from Melfort Composite Collegiate Institute high > school, and then completed an undergraduate degree in philosophy at the > University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Mike was driven by pragmatism > and curiosity about the wider world that motivated his doctoral studies > in Sociology at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. While a student, > he began his life-long exploration of the world, with trips through > North Africa and a long journey from Southeast Asia through Afghanistan > and Iran and back to the U.K. > > Upon Mike’s return to Canada, he worked in politics and policy, as a > senior civil servant for the Province of British Columbia under > Barrett’s NDP government (1972-4) and for the Province of Saskatchewan > under Blakeney’s NDP Government (1974-5). While teaching at York > University, he ran unsuccessfully for the NDP in the riding of Parkdale. > > Mike moved to Ottawa in the late 1970s where he met his wife, Fernande > Faulkner. Together they had two children, Rachel (1981) and Marc (1983). > He and Fernande established and ran a management consulting firm, > Socioscope, which studied and guided the social aspects of the > introduction of information communication technology. In Ottawa, Mike > also built and managed a real estate portfolio. In 1992 the family moved > to New York, where Mike and Fernande worked for the United Nations. > > In 1995, Mike became Associate Chair in the Management of Technological > Change at the University College of Cape Breton. There, he founded the > Centre for Community and Enterprise Networking (C/CEN) as a community > based research laboratory exploring applications of ICT to support > social change in one of Canada's most economically disadvantaged > regions. > > Grown out of his early experience in rural small town Saskatchewan and > his later experiences in impoverished but culturally and communally rich > Cape Breton, Mike's work provided the conceptual framing for > “community informatics”. He published the first major work in the > field, and introduced the term "community informatics" into wider usage > as referring to the research and praxis discipline underpinning the > social appropriation of ICT. Within the area of community informatics a > major contribution has been Mike's introduction of the notion of > "effective use" as a critical analytical framework for assessing > technology implementation superseding approaches based on the more > commonly accepted frameworks such as that of the "digital divide". > > In 1999, the family moved to Vancouver to be closer to Mike’s parents > and sister. In 2000, Mike and Fernande returned to New York, to work at > the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the UN, respectively. Mike > returned to Vancouver in 2006 and established the Center for Community > Informatics Research Development and Training (CCIRDT). With this > platform, he traveled the world to consult with governments and civil > society organisations, present at conferences, and conduct research. > > Mike was the founding editor of the Journal of Community Informatics and > was Foundation Chair of the Community Informatics Research Network. He > was at the time of his death the Executive Director of CCIRDT, and > formerly an Adjunct Professor in the School of Library and Information > Studies Vancouver Canada, and as well as Research Professor at the New > Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey, and Research > Professor at the University of Quebec (Outaouais). He was also a member > of the High Level Panel of Advisers of the UN's Global Alliance for ICT > and Development. He has also served on the Board of the Global > Telecentre Alliance, Telecommunities Canada, the Pacific Community > Networking Association and the Vancouver Community Net. > > In recent years he was active as a commentator, speaker and > essayist/blogger articulating a community informatics (grassroots ICT > user) perspective in the areas of open government data and internet > governance. Through all of his work, Mike was motivated by his > commitment to democratising access to the tools of information > technology and the advancement of civil society. > > Mike passed away peacefully at home on October 8 after a two year battle > with prostate cancer. He is survived by his wife Fernande, his mother > Sylvia, his sister Penny, his children Rachel and Marc, his > step-children Bruno and Nina, his grandchildren Emmanuelle and Daniel, > step grandchildren Patrick, Emilly, Jessica and Erica, and niece, > Natasha. > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
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