[NetBehaviour] From 1997, Nova Scotia, mainly Sydney, working with Mike Gurstein

[Alan Sondheim]

Working with Mike Gurstein

http://www.alansondheim.org/mike.txt


From 1997, Nova Scotia, mainly Sydney, working with Mike Gurstein


Revisiting, Notes and Pieces

Telecommunications in Rural or Non-Metropolitan Areas:

What sorts of uses can CMC be put to in rural areas? In terms of

[...]

(Mike Gurstein, one of the founders of community informatics,
died today)

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[NetBehaviour] RIP Michael Gurstein & much respect for being a decent himan being...

[marc.garrett]

Really sad news, such a lovely guy.

Through the years, Michael contributed some excellent ideas and texts on the 
Netbehaviour email list, in the UK.

He has been involved on some of the most important discussions on Netbehaviour 
and contributing with in depth, some critical insights, whether it was in 
relation to Furtherfield projects and or its various ventures, such DIWO, and 
he always was generous in offering thoughtful perspectives in an open way. Such 
a shock :-(

This was found on his FB page

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 

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[Alan Sondheim]

This is fantastic and fantastic company!

- Alan

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