Dr Peter Day (University of Brighton, UK)
Dr Peter Day is a Director of the Sussex Community Internet Project
(SCIP), a community sector training provider and advocacy organization
that raises awareness of the potential of ICTs to support and underpin
the social networks upon which community life is based. Dr Day was
a Steering Group member of the recent Brighton and Hove City Council
funded ‘Information and Communication Development’ (ICD)
pilot project. He has recently been awarded a £220,000 project
to develop a Social Network Analysis process to evaluate community
informatics projects in Brighton/Hove.
Active in the international field of community informatics. Dr
Day has co-edited two books intended to inform and influence policy
and practice on the challenges and opportunities facing local community
attempts to utilize ICTs. His emerging international reputation
is underlined by a recent Open Society Institute (OSI) community
informatics consultancy in Hungary.
Dr Day is also a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
(CPSR), a founding member of the UK Telecottage Association and
sits on the Executive of Community Informatics Research Network
(CIRN).
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Professor Michael Gurstein (New Jersey Institute
of Technology, USA)
Professor Gurstein is Professor in the School of Management at
the New Jersey Institute of Technology specializing in international
aspect community based technology applications. A Canadian, he completed
a PhD at the University of Cambridge and was a senior public servant
in the Provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. From 1992-95
Professor Gurstein was a Management Advisor with the United Nations
Secretariat in New York and during 1995-99 he 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.
Professor Gurstein's publications include Community Informatics:
Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies,
published by Idea Group, 2000; Burying Coal: Research and Development
in a Marginal Community, published by Collective Press, Vancouver
and Community Innovation Systems: ICT and Development in a Rural
and Remote Community, published by UCCB Press Spring 2002.
Until his recent appointment, Professor Gurstein was on the Board
of the Vancouver Community Network, the British Columbia Community
Networking Association, Telecommunities Canada, and a Charter Member
of the Steering Committee of the Global Community Networking Partnership.
He was Chair of the first Community Informatics Conference in the
Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR). He is the principal
investigator in Community Informatics Projects tended by the National
Science.
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Professor Steven Coleman, Visiting Professor in
e-Democracy, Oxford Internet Institute, UK
BA hons and PhD from London University. Formerly
Director of the Hansard e-democracy programme, which pioneered online
consultations for the UK Parliament, and lecturer in Media &
Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Chaired the Independent Commission on Alternative Voting Methods.
Recent publications include ; Bowling Together (with John
Gotze), Hansard Society, 2001; Realising Democracy Online: A
Civic Commons in Cyberspace (with Jay G. Blumler), IPPR, 2001;
2001: A Cyber Space Oddysey: the Internet in the UK Election,
Hansard Society, 2001; Televised Election Debates: International
Perspectives, Macmillan 2000; Parliament in the Age of
the Internet (edited with J. Taylor and W. van de Donk) OUP,
1999. At the Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Coleman will be
working on the adaptation of representative institutions in the
digital age; the development of spaces for public democratic deliberation;
and a global evaluation of a range of e-democracy exercises.
