Michael Gurstein

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Biography

Executive Director
Centre for Community Informatics
Research Development and Training,
Vancouver, Canada

 

Dr Michael Gurstein is currently the Exectuive Director of the Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training in Vancouver Canada; a Director of The Information Society Institute, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town South Africa; an Honorary Professor at Central Queensland University in Australia, a Fellow of the Center for Community Networking, Monash University; and an Honorary Fellow of the Claremont Information Technology Insititute, Claremont Graduate University. In 2006 he was selected to be on the United Nation's Global Alliance for Information, Communications, and Technology and Development High Level Panel of Advisors. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Community Informatics and a key member of Community Informatics Research Network and moderates the Community Informatics and Community Informatics Researchers elists.