[1] In 1960-61, he was an American Field Service exchange student in Kenmore East Senior High School in Tonawanda, New York (US).

[6] He has advised numerous governmental bodies, including the Ministère de la Recherche (France) for their e-publication project in the humanities and the social sciences; the Agence de la francophonie for matters pertaining to new technologies; the Quebec Minister of Communication in charge of the information highway; and the Quebec Ministry of education for the integration of the new technologies into the curriculum.

[7] He is the founder of the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal Surfaces (started in 1991)[8] and a Steering Group member of Open Humanities Press, an international open access publishing collective specializing in critical and cultural theory.

[10] He has won academic prizes such as Prix International Charles Hélou de la francophonie (1996)[4] and the Excellence Prize of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (formerly known as COSH-COCH) in 2005.

[11] In 2018, the Jean-Claude Guédon Prize was established to reward "the best article on the issues of scholarly publications and/or open access.