Macrowikinomics

RSA Keynote: Solving the World’s Problems Differently

Macrowikinomics — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:21:50 +0000

Don Tapscott’s February keynote at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) on how new global non-state networks are offering powerful new solutions for cooperation, problem solving and governance. Watch … Read more

Telefonica Guest Post: New Global Networks Offer Great Promise

Don Tapscott — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:36:20 +0000

From our inability to come to agreements on everything from climate change, fighting poverty, Palestinian statehood or how to govern the global financial system, many people are questioning why existing approaches have proven so inadequate to fixing a broken world. Are the problems simply too hard to solve?

Read the full article in Telefonica.

Forbes: 9 Approaches to Addressing the World’s Problems

Macrowikinomics — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:03:30 +0000

We are reaching a point in history where we are seeing alternatives to the idea of nation-states as governing bodies and cooperation on a global level. According to thought leader Don Tapscott in his recent speech at SXSW Interactive 2013, there is an urgency to rethink our aging global institutions. This is already happening in the form of new organizations that transcend national boundaries, and even our model of the organization, into what Mr. Tapscott calls multi-stakeholder networks (MSNs). I described this notion in prior posts right after SXSW last year, and need to return to it on its anniversary.

Read the full article in Forbes.

Don Tapscott Appointed Chancellor of Trent University

Macrowikinomics — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:49:54 +0000

The Senate of Trent University is pleased to announce its decision to approve the appointment of Mr. Don Tapscott to be installed as Trent University’s eleventh chancellor at Convocation ceremonies to be held Friday, June 7 at 10 a.m. A bestselling author, entrepreneur and one of the world’s top business Thinkers50, Mr. Tapscott is also an alumnus of Trent University.

Read the full article at Trent University.

Why Apple Has to Become More Open

Macrowikinomics — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:00:37 +0000

This is an age of openness and transparency. Hierarchies and tyrants are so 20th century. So why is it that the most successful corporation on the planet in this new millennium has been a secretive hierarchy run by a (now-deceased) tyrant? It’s a question I couldn’t help asking Don Tapscott after reading the new ebook he has co-authored with Anthony D. Williams, Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success. (There’s a related TED talk by Tapscott, in case that’s how you prefer to digest your information.)

Read the full article in Harvard Business Review.

Don Tapscott at SXSW 2013

celina — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:23:52 +0000

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

Don Tapscott On CBC Books

Macrowikinomics — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:55:32 +0000

Don Tapscott discusses Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success, a short e-book that he co-authored with Anthony Williams. It’s based on a TED Talk Tapscott gave last year.

Read the full article and listen to the podcast at CBC Books.

Let’s Crowdsource Canada

Macrowikinomics — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:02:38 +0000

The Globe and Mail features high-profile Canadians commenting on the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Top 10 reasons Canadian competitiveness is dropping.

Read Don Tapscott’s feature in The Globe and Mail.

Tapscott & Williams Launch a TED Short eBook

Macrowikinomics — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:26:01 +0000

Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams launch a new short ebook with TED Books, Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success. Tapscott and Williams show how transparency, collaboration and openness are part of a revolutionary new philosophy that is affecting every facet of our society, from the way we do business to whom we chose to govern us.

Learn more at TED Books.

The Week University (As We Know It) Ended

Don Tapscott — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:08:43 +0000

If there is one issue that is buzzing through Davos like a prairie fire among thoughtful people, it’s that the time has finally come to reinvent higher learning.

Read the full article.

Philanthropy In The Age Of Networked Intelligence

Don Tapscott — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:12:34 +0000

As we enter the age of ‘networked intelligence’, philanthropy is going through a profound change. This has big implications for fundraisers and donors alike. In the old model, NGOs courted individuals and institutions. If successfully seduced, donors provided funds. But today, largely because of the internet’s slashing of transaction and collaboration costs, NGOs can build deep relationships with philanthropists.

Read the full article [pdf].

White Paper: The Great Technology Take-Up

Macrowikinomics — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:01:00 +0000

In his foreword of the white paper ‘The great technology take-up’, Don Tapscott makes the case for collaboration, co-creation and a new set of business principles. Tapscott, among others known as the author ofWikinomics looks at the changing paradigms in increasingly connected times.

Read the full article and download the white paper at BT Global.

Don Tapscott Moves Into The App World

Macrowikinomics — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:26:29 +0000

Don Tapscott is making the digital leap.

Tapscott is a management guru, consultant and the author of 14 books, which mostly discuss technology and how the digital revolution is changing society. His latest venture embraces the wired world he so often discusses; instead of the printed word, it comes in the form of an app.

The Thinkers50 organization, colloquially referred to as the “Oscars of management thinking,” chose Tapscott as the first person upon whom to base this kind of compendium app, with plans to release more to highlight the people it honours.

Read the full article in The Toronto Star.

Governing The Web (And Everything Else)

Don Tapscott — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:12:01 +0000

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.

Read the full article in The Globe and Mail.

Discovery Learning Is the New Higher Learning

Don Tapscott — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:45:11 +0000

Encyclopedias, record labels and publishers were once in the business of producing unique content that generated big revenues. All are being bludgeoned by the digital age that brought abundance, mass participation, democratized production and the rise of a new delivery channel — the Internet.

A similar fate could soon await Canada’s universities. On the surface, they may seem in good health. Competition is fierce and lecture halls are packed with young, tech-savvy learners. But as the Globe and Mail‘s series on higher education has clearly revealed, deep anxieties exist.

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields. Students are beginning to wonder whether to pay today’s hefty tuition fees, especially if third-party testers will provide certificates, diplomas, even degrees.

Read the full article in The Huffington Post.

Governing the Web (And Everything Else)

celina — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:06:56 +0000

The International Telecommunication Union, a low-profile United Nations agency that’s sponsoring the meeting, sets out the technical standards for the world’s communication technologies, and the last time the group met was in 1988, when the information superhighway was geek talk and the World Wide Web didn’t exist. The Internet’s subsequent explosive growth occurred not so much because of the ITU but despite it.

Read the full article in The Globe and Mail.

Economist Interview: Don Tapscott on Nation States

Macrowikinomics — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:04:51 +0000

Don Tapscott discusses the nature of global networks and why they are better equipped to deal with problems like climate change and nation states.

Watch the interview on The Economist.

CTV National News Interview: Internet Age Problem-Solving

Macrowikinomics — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:44:24 +0000

CTV News, Canada’s national news broadcast interviews Don Tapscott on his latest app, New Solutions for a Connected Planet.

Watch the full interview on CTV News.

Making It Through The Storm

Macrowikinomics — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:00:59 +0000

GOLDMAN SACHS’S latest shrewd investment was in sandbags and back-up electricity generators. As Hurricane Sandy approached New York, the bags were stacked around its headquarters. It was one of the few offices in downtown Manhattan to remain dry and well-illuminated as “Frankenstorm” battered the city.

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Each new disaster tends to surprise firms that thought they had good plans in place. Hospitals in New York that had moved their back-up generators above ground nonetheless lost power during Sandy because they had failed to put fuel and pumps where floods could not reach. Running disaster-readiness drills regularly, it turns out, is a common-sense idea practised all too rarely.

“Firms are increasingly reliant on networks, but often fail to understand the risks that networks bring,” says Don Tapscott, a management guru. Global supply chains, just-in-time and shifting to the “cloud” tend to bind once unrelated activities ever closer together, making them more prone to failing at the same time. The current fad for moving data to the “cloud” may appear to reduce risk because there is so much spare capacity in the web. Yet some firms offering cloud services have more concentrated operations than others.

Read the full article in The Economist.

Clay Shirky Interviews Don Tapscott on The Atlantic

celina — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:06:00 +0000

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 most sought-after thinkers on our networked world. Recently, they took the time to pose tough, timely questions to each other on how social media, intellectual property laws, and generational divides are affecting politics, business, and culture.

What follows is their written exchange taking place over the course of two months in late summer and early fall. Their interview will be published next week in design mind, a print magazine from the design and innovation firm, frog. Here is Part I of their conversation. We will run Part II on Sunday.

Read the full article in The Atlantic.