in Community Informatics, was published in 2012, based on the work of the Community Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN), a major community informatics research project of which Gurstein was a co-principal investigator. Later activities - academic and civil society Gurstein was the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Community Informatics, was Foundation Chair of the Community Informatics Research Network and moderates the Community Informatics and Community Informatics Researchers, an adjunct professor in the School of Library and Information Studies in Vancouver Canada, and was formerly 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 also served on the Board of the Global Telecentre Alliance, Telecommunities Canada, the Pacific Community Networking Association and the Vancouver Community Net. In more recent years he had become 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. Until 2016, Gurstein wrote a community informatics blog. Death Gurstein died on October 8, 2017, after a two-year battle with prostate cancer. Principal publications Clement, A., Gurstein, M., Longford, G., Moll, M. and Shade, L.R. (eds): Connecting Canadians: Investigations in Community Informatics, Athabaska University Press, 2012 Gurstein, M.: What is Community Informatics (and Why Does It Matter)?. Polimetrica, 2007 Gurstein, M. (Ed.) Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey PA, 2000 Gurstein, M.: Effective Use: A Community Informatics Strategy Beyond the Digital Divide, First Monday, December 2003 (translated into Russian and Spanish) Gurstein, M.: Flexible Networking, Information and Communications Technology and Local Economic Development, First Monday, February 1999 Gurstein M., and Civille, R.: Towards a Citizen’s Technology: Final Report to the Ford Foundation on a Sector Analysis of the Community Informatics Systems Sector, 2004. Gurstein M., Menou M., and Stafeev S., (Eds.): Community Networking and Community Informatics: Prospects, Approaches and Instruments. Part 1: Global Experience St. Petersburg, CCNS, 2003 (English and Russian) References External links http://ci-journal.net https://web.archive.org/web/20101020194257/http://www.communityinformatics.net/ http://gurstein.wordpress.com http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/info/ciresearchers 1944 births Living people Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Canadian computer scientists Canadian social scientists Digital divide activists New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty People from Melfort, Saskatchewan Scientists from Edmonton Scientists from Saskatchewan Canadian bloggers