The following is the condensed version of Don Tapscott's commencement address during his installation as chancellor at Trent University.
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Speech by Don Tapscott to the 2013 graduating classes of
Business Administration and Nursing on the occasion of his installation as
Chancellor of Trent University
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The continuing global economic mess, growing inequalities and environmental destruction, to name a few crises, are causing many to ask: Is global capitalism fixable as a system, and if so, what is to be done? Three perspectives from Don Tapscott, Richard Florida and Roger Martin, in preparation for their Prosperity Experts @ Rotman Discussion Series.
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Join Don Tapscott, Richard Florida and Roger Martin on May 21 from 5:45pm to 7pm at the Prosperity Experts @ Rotman Discussion Series on the Future of Capitalism.
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Like a phoenix from the ashes, Blackberry may actually be making a comeback.
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After much ballyhoo, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen have published The New Digital Age. The authors are as smart and plugged-in as it gets. And they have the resources and connections necessary to break new ground.
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Tapscott and Williams collaborate on a new short ebook with TED Books, Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles For Success.
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Thinkers50 and Rotman School of Management launch the Don Tapscott App: New Solutions for a Connected Planet. Learn more
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RSA Keynote: Solving the World’s Problems Differently
RSA presentation on how new global non-state networks are offering powerful new solutions for cooperation, problem solving and governance.
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Global Problem Solving at Digital Life Design Conference 2013
Don Tapscott’s keynote at Digital Life Design conference 2013 where he shares his first findings from the research on how non-state networks may surpass international institutions, like the UN, IMF and World Bank, in their roles as global policy makers. Digital advancement enables these networks to form new patterns of connectivity, which were not possible on this scale ever before.
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Making Internal Collaboration Work: A McKinsey Interview with Don Tapscott
How do we get beyond e-mail to these new social platforms that include an industrial-strength social network?
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Davos: A Playground for the World’s Elite?
The World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland unites the accomplished and the acquisitive at a high altitude but are they doing anything that matters to the rest of us?
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Episode Four Extras: LinkedIn, Nike, Zipcar and GoodGuide
Extended versions of Don’s interviews with LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, Zipcar and Buzzcar’s Robin Chase, Nike’s Vice President of Sustainability and Innovation, Hannah Jones, and GoodGuide’s Dara O’Rourke.
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Episode Four on ReCivilization: ReIndustrializing the Planet
In episode four of ReCivilization, Don examines how the digital revolution has cut transaction costs and changed the notion of the firm, and how business needs to operate collaboratively and transparently — to meet the needs of increasingly savvy consumers concerned about sustainability and ethical behaviour. As Don says, the level of scrutiny made possible by the web means businesses operate nakedly. And if you’re going to be naked, you’d better be buff.
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Latest Books
In their compelling new short ebook Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles For Success, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams show how this revolutionary new philosophy is affecting every facet of our society, from the way we do business to whom we chose to govern us.
This TED book is based on Tapscott's talk from TED Global 2012.
Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet is the follow up to the New York Times 2007 bestselling Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. In every corner of the globe, Macrowikinomics presents groundbreaking innovations in how businesses, organizations, and individuals are using mass collaboration to revolutionize not only the way we work, but how we live, learn, create, and care for each other.
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SXSW 2013 Keynote: How To Solve the World’s Problems
June 12th, 2013 | SXSW
The growing problems of the world — from climate change, conflict, poverty, water scarcity, infectious disease to economic stagnation — are not too hard to solve. Rather progress is stalled because our model is wrong. The good news is that traditional state based institutions such as the UN, the International Monetary Fund or the G8 summits are being supplemented and even eclipsed by non-state networks of civil society, the private sector, government and individual stakeholders. Call them Global Solution Networks.