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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT 2022, VOL. 28, NO. 1, 210–213 https://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2021.2022882 OBITUARY Tribute to a prodigious scholar, mentor and global thought leader: Professor Peter Keen Sajda Qureshi Editor - in Chief When the internet was a figment in most people’s imagination, Peter Keen was paving the way for us to understand the many ways in which our lives would be changed forever. He wrote seminal works and textbooks in the area of Decision Support Systems (DSS), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Commerce including Mcommerce. His textbooks on Decision Support Systems gave us an understanding of how organizational decision making needs good information (Keen, 1978; Scott- Morton & Keen, 1978). When speaking to my students he would stress that as all commerce is becoming electronic, it is about the relationships that keep businesses alive. The phrase he coined ‘the organization that lives by the online transaction will die by it’ is true today. As his mentee, I knew him to be a prolific writer, speaker who led us in our understanding of the many ways in which ICTs are changing the world we live in. Going through our notes, his words take on a new significance. He told us