Michael Gurstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 255679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Gurstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurstein |
| SIGNATURE | GURSTEIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Vancouver, BC |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Neighborhood in the Internet: Design Research Projects in Community Informatics
Making Information Technologies Work at the End of the Road
Remote and rural areas face many challenges, including the provision of telecommunications services. Regardless of universal service policies or other political promises, rural communities can be deemed unprofitable by service providers while government assistance is managed by faraway regulators who lack understanding of the affected communities and citizens. The authors assess these challenges in the context of the First Nations of Canada, via …
A decision support system to assist the rural poor in Bangladesh [Commentary]
Agriculture is Bangladesh's most important sector for sustaining growth and reducing poverty. However, a lack of adequate nutrient supply, the depletion of organic matter in soils, and soil erosion are major obstacles to sustainable improvements in agricultural production. Katalyst initiated and supported a process where SRDI would collaborate with a Bangladeshi software developer to design a computerized decision support system able to undertake…
Open data: Empowering the empowered or effective data use for everyone
This paper takes a supportive but critical look at “open data” from the perspective of its possible impact on the poor and marginalized and concludes that there may be cause for concern in the absence of specific measures being taken to ensure that there are supports for ensuring a wide basis of opportunity for “effective data use”. The paper concludes by providing a seven element model for how effective data use can be achieved
Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide (originally published in December 2003)
A huge industry has been created responding to the perceived social malady, the "Digital Divide". This paper examines the concepts and strategies underlying the notion of the Digital Divide and concludes that it is little more than a marketing campaign for Internet service providers. The paper goes on to present an alternative approach - that of "effective use" - drawn from community informatics theory which recognizes that the Internet is not si…
Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide
A huge industry has been created responding to the perceived social malady, the "Digital Divide". This paper examines the concepts and strategies underlying the notion of the Digital Divide and concludes that it is little more than a marketing campaign for Internet service providers. The paper goes on to present an alternative approach - that of "effective use" - drawn from community informatics theory which recognizes that the Internet is not si…
Community enterprise networks: The Potential for Partnerships for Local Economic Development
A Community Enterprise Network (CEN) is an alliance of many stakeholders, including Community Access sites, libraries, schools, municipalities, local businesses and other interested groups. Public access Internet sites are not likely to stimulate significant economic activity as isolated units. However, when these nodes come together to form a CEN, they form both a distribution network for the delivery of government, educational and corporate ser…
Flexible networking, information and communications technology and local economic development
This paper examines the impact of information technologies on rural communities and suggests new efforts to support local economies with globally connected networks
Social impacts of selected artificial intelligence applications
Towards the nationalization of Canadian sociology
Social impacts of selected artificial intelligence applications
Towards the nationalization of Canadian sociology
Making Information Technologies Work at the End of the Road
Remote and rural areas face many challenges, including the provision of telecommunications services. Regardless of universal service policies or other political promises, rural communities can be deemed unprofitable by service providers while government assistance is managed by faraway regulators who lack understanding of the affected communities and citizens. The authors assess these challenges in the context of the First Nations of Canada, via …
Towards the nationalization of Canadian sociology
Social impacts of selected artificial intelligence applications
Community enterprise networks: The Potential for Partnerships for Local Economic Development
A Community Enterprise Network (CEN) is an alliance of many stakeholders, including Community Access sites, libraries, schools, municipalities, local businesses and other interested groups. Public access Internet sites are not likely to stimulate significant economic activity as isolated units. However, when these nodes come together to form a CEN, they form both a distribution network for the delivery of government, educational and corporate ser…
Flexible networking, information and communications technology and local economic development
This paper examines the impact of information technologies on rural communities and suggests new efforts to support local economies with globally connected networks
Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide
A huge industry has been created responding to the perceived social malady, the "Digital Divide". This paper examines the concepts and strategies underlying the notion of the Digital Divide and concludes that it is little more than a marketing campaign for Internet service providers. The paper goes on to present an alternative approach - that of "effective use" - drawn from community informatics theory which recognizes that the Internet is not si…
Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the Digital Divide (originally published in December 2003)
A huge industry has been created responding to the perceived social malady, the "Digital Divide". This paper examines the concepts and strategies underlying the notion of the Digital Divide and concludes that it is little more than a marketing campaign for Internet service providers. The paper goes on to present an alternative approach - that of "effective use" - drawn from community informatics theory which recognizes that the Internet is not si…
Open data: Empowering the empowered or effective data use for everyone
This paper takes a supportive but critical look at “open data” from the perspective of its possible impact on the poor and marginalized and concludes that there may be cause for concern in the absence of specific measures being taken to ensure that there are supports for ensuring a wide basis of opportunity for “effective data use”. The paper concludes by providing a seven element model for how effective data use can be achieved
A decision support system to assist the rural poor in Bangladesh [Commentary]
Agriculture is Bangladesh's most important sector for sustaining growth and reducing poverty. However, a lack of adequate nutrient supply, the depletion of organic matter in soils, and soil erosion are major obstacles to sustainable improvements in agricultural production. Katalyst initiated and supported a process where SRDI would collaborate with a Bangladeshi software developer to design a computerized decision support system able to undertake…
Making Information Technologies Work at the End of the Road
Remote and rural areas face many challenges, including the provision of telecommunications services. Regardless of universal service policies or other political promises, rural communities can be deemed unprofitable by service providers while government assistance is managed by faraway regulators who lack understanding of the affected communities and citizens. The authors assess these challenges in the context of the First Nations of Canada, via …
The Neighborhood in the Internet: Design Research Projects in Community Informatics
Computer Science (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · World Wide Web (6 works) · Knowledge management (5 works) · Marketing (5 works) · Data science (4 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Telecommunications (4 works)