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Don Tapscott at SXSW 2013

Don Tapscott shares some initial conclusions from a multi-million dollar study he is leading about how new patterns of connection can fulfill their enormous potential in fixing a broken world. Read the full description on …   Read more

Governing the Web (And Everything Else)

Representatives of more than 190 governments begin a profoundly important 12-day closed-door meeting in Dubai on Monday to hammer out how the Internet should be run and who should pay for its operation. The International …   Read more

Clay Shirky Interviews Don Tapscott on The Atlantic

Clay Shirky, a widely published authority on the Internet’s effects on society, and Don Tapscott, an author and adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, are two of today’s …   Read more

Fast Company Interview on Don Tapscott’s New App

Don Tapscott, author of 14 books including, most recently Macrowikinomics, recently announced he is publishing his first iPad application–New Solutions for a Connected Planet. “I haven’t given up on books completely and am also pursuing the …   Read more

The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries

The following is an excerpt from the convocation speech given by Don Tapscott to the 2012 class of INSEAD, a graduate business school with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. You don’t need my advice …   Read more

Don Tapscott ‘s TEDGlobal Talk: Four Principles for the Open World

The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. In this inspiring …   Read more

MaRS Global Leadership Series: New Solutions for a Connected Planet

On Thursday, June 21, at 5:30 p.m. Don Tapscott, who will be giving the opening talk at TEDGlobal 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland, will visit Toronto to present at the MaRS Global Leadership Series.   Read more

The Need for a Personal Digital Privacy Strategy

The tensions between information freedom and personal control are exploding, and not simply because of the benefits of sharing information using new media. Massive commercial and government interests, along with malevolent individuals, have much to gain as each of us reveals highly granular personal information, much of it in the public domain by default.   Read more

Is privacy an outmoded idea in the digital age?

In the real world, we have many faces, roles or identities that we present in different contexts: mother, daughter, wife, boss, employee, shopper, citizen, participant, attendee, bystander, volunteer, coffee drinker, etc. They are all “public” …   Read more

Corporate Secrecy and Personal Privacy are Opposites

the advocates of personal openness err in thinking the same principles should apply to individuals. Corporations are fundamentally different from persons. Corporations are legal entities that society allows to be created and tasks them to achieve certain societal objectives. Corporations benefit enormously from the privilege of limited liability that society extends to them. As such they have obligations to us, including being appropriately transparent.   Read more