Michael Gurstein

Michael Gurstein, Ph.D completed a B.A. at the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in the Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Gurstein was a senior public servant in the Provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. For a number of years Dr. Gurstein was the president of the consulting firm Socioscope Inc. in Ottawa, Canada which specialized in the human aspects of advanced technologies. From 1992-95 Dr. Gurstein was a management advisor with the United Nations Secretariat in New York. From 1995-99 Dr. Gurstein was the ECBC/NSERC/SSHRC Associate Chair in the Management of Technological Change at the University College of Cape Breton and the Founder Director of the Centre for Community and Enterprise Networking (C\CEN) of that institution. C\CEN specialized in the application of information and communications technology to local economic development, particularly rural development. Dr. Gurstein has published widely and in addition to this book has authored the book "Burying Coal: Research and Development in a Marginal Community" by Collective Press. Dr. Gurstein is currently an Associate Professor of Management and Technology at the Technical University of British Columbia, in Vancouver Canada and the Director of the Centre for Community Informatics.

Publications

Remote Management of a Province-Wide Youth Employment Program Using Internet Technologies
Remote Management of a Province-Wide Youth Employment Program Using Internet Technologies
Bruce Dienes, Michael Gurstein. © 2006. 19 pages.
A province-wide network of Community Access Internet sites was supported during the summers of 1996 and 1997 by Wire Nova Scotia (WiNS), a government funded program to provide...
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies
Michael Gurstein. © 2000. 596 pages.
Community Informatics is developing as an approach for linking economic and social development efforts at the community level to the opportunities that information and...
Community Informatics: Enabling Community Uses of Information and Communications Technology
Community Informatics: Enabling Community Uses of Information and Communications Technology
Michael Gurstein. © 2000. 30 pages.
There is an emerging need for all sectors of society to find ways to optimize the opportunities which information and communications technologies present. Research and...
Remote Management of a Province-Wide Youth Employment Program Using Internet Technologies
Remote Management of a Province-Wide Youth Employment Program Using Internet Technologies
Bruce Dienes, Michael Gurstein. © 1999. 15 pages.
A province-wide network of Community Access Internet sites was supported during the summers of 1996 and 1997 by Wire Nova Scotia (WiNS), a government funded program to provide...
Remote Management of a Province-Wide Youth Employment Program Using Internet Technologies
Remote Management of a Province-Wide Youth Employment Program Using Internet Technologies
Bruce Dienes, Michael Gurstein. © 1999. 15 pages.
A province-wide network of Community Access Internet sites was supported during the summers of 1996 and 1997 by Wire Nova Scotia (WiNS), a government funded program to provide...