NGO’s & Government

12/20/2011 | Don Tapscott | NGOs & Government

Part Two: My 20 Big Ideas for 2012

In Egypt and Tunisia we saw a revolution in how to foment revolutions.  Now we need to reinvent how to build democracies. Enabled by social media, anti-government leadership in these two countries came from the …   Read more

12/09/2011 | Macrowikinomics | NGOs & Government

Don Tapscott at European Commissions’s first Innovation Convention

On the 5th and 6th of december the European Commission held it’s first Innovation Convention @ Brussels. A conference full of top political leaders like President of the Commission Barroso and Angela Merkel who presented …   Read more

11/09/2011 | Macrowikinomics | NGOs & Government

Don Tapscott on the Occupy Movement on CBC Metro Morning

Matt Galloway, host of number one Toronto morning show, CBC Metro Morning, interviews Don Tapscott on the Occupy movement.
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08/19/2011 | Macrowikinomics | NGOs & Government

Remaking Government in a Wiki Age

The New York Times interviews Don Tapscott on open data and Government 2.0 to reinvent the value of government: But a few people — writers, activists, even politicians — are examining the current woes of …   Read more

08/03/2011 | Macrowikinomics | NGOs & Government

Open Data, Open Government

There’s been a lot of talk about open government, but one province is finally walking the talk. Last month, the B.C. government unveiled DataBC, a broad initiative to make available at no charge a wide array of data gathered by government that had previously mostly sat unused in filing cabinets.   Read more

07/05/2011 | Macrowikinomics | NGOs & Government

Don Tapscott Four-Part Series on The Agenda

The Agenda with Steve Paikin is the flagship current affairs program of TVOntario, Ontario’s public broadcaster. The Agenda explores local and global social, political, cultural and economic issues. The week of July 4, The Agenda …   Read more

05/27/2011 | Don Tapscott | NGOs & Government

G8 and the Internet: Sarkozy Messes With a Good Thing

The irony couldn’t be more obvious. After staging a piece of political theater called the E-G8, which French President Nicolas Sarkozy used as a platform to champion the notion of much tougher government control over …   Read more

05/20/2011 | Don Tapscott | NGOs & Government

Social media can help build Arab governments too

In the Arab world this winter, social media proved that it can facilitate rebellion and even topple regimes. Now it faces a much harder challenge. Can social media help to build new governments? The wiki …   Read more

05/19/2011 | Macrowikinomics | NGOs & Government

Digital Technology Can Bring Democracy to Life

Don Tapscott and Bill Gillies write: On Monday at the MaRS Centre in downtown Toronto, Research and Innovation Minister Glen Murray unveiled an important example of how digital technologies can bring to life the fuzzy …   Read more

05/02/2011 | Don Tapscott | NGOs & Government

Why did we ignore Obama’s social media lesson?

After watching how Barack Obama revolutionized campaigning for the digital age, it’s bizarre that, nearly three years later, the parties in our election all ran old-style campaigns of the broadcast era. The upshot was a …   Read more