Connecting to Solve the World’s Problems
Last month, MaRS had the pleasure of welcoming Don Tapscott, one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology, as a guest speaker in our...
View ArticleWhy Open-Source Principles Are a Recipe For Innovation
Two weeks ago, Amy Clark wrote that an open-source model can — and should — be applied to scientific research in the pharmaceutical industry. Using insights from Ashoka Fellow Stephen Friend, she...
View ArticleOn CBC’s Ideas: ReCivilization, Part 2: Open-Source Knowledge
ReCivilization airs on Ideas on July 13, 20, 27, August 3 and 10 on CBC Radio. Don Tapscott looks at the transformation of education and science. The sharing of knowledge is moving from the...
View ArticleAfter 14 Books, Don Tapscott’s New Book is Not a Book – It’s an App.
Thinkers50 and Rotman School of Management launch a groundbreaking app that provides an encyclopedic look at one of the world’s most influential thinkers: The Don Tapscott iPad App: New Solutions for a...
View ArticleDon Tapscott: Collaboration and the Age of Networked Intelligence
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...
View ArticleMaking It Through The Storm
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...
View ArticleCTV National News Interview: Internet Age Problem-Solving
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.
View ArticleEconomist Interview: Don Tapscott on Nation States
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.
View ArticleDon Tapscott Moves Into The App World
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...
View ArticleWhite Paper: The Great Technology Take-Up
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...
View ArticleTapscott & Williams Launch a TED Short eBook
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...
View ArticleLet’s Crowdsource Canada
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...
View ArticleDon Tapscott On CBC Books
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...
View ArticleWhy Apple Has to Become More Open
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...
View ArticleDon Tapscott Appointed Chancellor of Trent University
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...
View ArticleForbes: 9 Approaches to Addressing the World’s Problems
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...
View ArticleRSA Keynote: Solving the World’s Problems Differently
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...
View ArticleThe Agenda With Steve Paikin Don Tapscott Reinventing Democracy
Technology advisor Don Tapscott on the shifting relationship between citizen and government and how it could rise to a new form of democracy in 20 years. Watch the full interview on TVO’s The Agenda...
View ArticleAsk Tapscott Q&a on Reinventing International Relations
In his latest book, Macrowikinomics, Don Tapscott posits that the web is ushering in nothing less than a new civilization, one defined by collaboration, sharing, openness, inter-dependence, and...
View ArticleDon Tapscott in Detail on The Inside Agenda Blog
Decades before this publishing deluge, Don Tapscott was thinking about how the Internet changes society, publishing numerous widely-read books over the last 30 years. The reason for this decades-long...
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