Science, Education & Health

02/07/2012 | Don Tapscott | Science, Education & Health

Episode Three of ReCivilization is Now Online: Collaborative Healthcare

In part three of ReCivilization, Don examines the future of health care and medicine, where patients become co-managers of their own wellness, and use the web to network with each other for support, knowledge, and …   Read more

02/02/2012 | Macrowikinomics | Science, Education & Health

This week on ReCivilization: Collaborative Health Care

In part three of ReCivilization, Don Tapscott examines the future of health care and medicine, where patients become co-managers of their own wellness, and use the web to network with each other for support, knowledge, …   Read more

02/01/2012 | Macrowikinomics | Science, Education & Health

ReCivilization Episode 2: Open Source Knowledge, Education and Science

In episode two of ReCivilization, Don Tapscott looks at the transformation of education and science, and how the sharing of knowledge is moving from the industrial-age model of a one-way broadcast from teacher to student to collaborative, discovery-driven learning, enabled by the web. He also examines a new model for science that favours open data over isolated, patent-driven research.   Read more

01/17/2012 | Don Tapscott | Science, Education & Health

This Thursday, Catch My Segment on The Nature of Things With David Suzuki

This Thusday, at 8pm, Don Tapscott presents surprising new research that explains the peculiarities and immense power and potential of the teen brain. Watch the episode at CBC Television.

12/22/2011 | Don Tapscott | Science, Education & Health

Final Installment: My 20 Big Ideas for 2012

Without fundamental reform, universities will not be able to compete with cheaper and more effective online education providers. While many young people are still going to university, a growing portion of the best and the …   Read more

12/20/2011 | Don Tapscott | Science, Education & Health

Part 3: My 20 Big Ideas for 2012

Countries everywhere are struggling to develop effective yet affordable healthcare systems.  But all these debates assume an old model of health where patients are passive recipients of medical care and play little or no role …   Read more

11/10/2011 | Don Tapscott | Science, Education & Health

Collaborating for Change in Healthcare

Despite the advancements of modern medicine, our basic approach to healthcare has remained unchanged for centuries. It assumes that physicians are smart and patients aren’t. Doctors wait in their office or hospital for sick people to come to them in order to be told what to do. Traditionally, patients have been passive and ill-informed, playing little or no role in deciding their own treatment.   Read more

07/18/2011 | Macrowikinomics | Science, Education & Health

Memo To Merck: Rethink Big Pharma!

In a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal, Don Tapscott, co-author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, notes that in last five years the rate of business model innovation has not accelerated. Overall, the gains have been modest.

In the article, Tapscott offers to help out five struggling industries– big pharma, music, financial risk management, green manufacturing and health care—with interesting suggestions as to how they should rethink their business models.   Read more

07/15/2011 | Macrowikinomics | Science, Education & Health

Rethinking How We Teach The ‘Net Generation’

Few will argue about America’s colleges and universities being critical to our economic and intellectual future. And by many measures, that future looks promising: Competition for places in the country’s top schools is fiercer than …   Read more

03/31/2011 | Anthony Williams | Science, Education & Health

Science’s Big Data Revolution Yields Lessons for all Open Data Innovators

The big data revolution arguably hit science before it hit other institutions. Powerful scientific instruments and pervasive computing have driven quantum leaps in the amount of data available to scientists, raising new challenges for researchers who have had to develop new methods, tools and institutions for managing and exploring massive datasets.   Read more