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Dr. Gurstein is currently a Visiting Professor in the School of Management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Principal with Michael Gurstein & Associates, Vancouver BC specializing in community based technology applications. He is an Honorary Professor at Central Queensland University in Australia. A Canadian, he completed a B.A. at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and was a senior public servant in the Provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. From 1992-95 Dr. Gurstein was a Management Advisor with the United Nations Secretariat in New York. Prior to this Dr. Gurstein was the President of Socioscope Inc. a management consulting firm based in Ottawa Canada which specialized in policy and program analysis and evaluation including a long term assignment with the Canadian Office of the Auditor General developing evaluation methodologies for implementation by line departments and agencies of the Canadian Government. Among the projects with which Dr. Gurstein was directly engaged was an extensive analysis and evaluation of a major program in Community Radio among the Inuit and Cree aboriginal people of Northern Quebec funded by the Government of Canada.

 

Dr. Gurstein has pioneered in the development of the strategic and policy thinking concerning community ICT implementations and has advised and consulted widely in this area including with a number of UN agencies, and Departments and agencies of the Canadian, US, and Australian governments among others. He is currently the Chair of the (Global) Community Informatics Research Network and the Editor of Community Informatics: a Global Journal whose first edition appeared in September 2004.