Although Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech on Thursday in Davos was received well, many of the delegates that I spoke with told me they thought Harper’s vision was too blinkered. With the conspicuous exception of global warming, Harper acknowledged that many challenges face the world, but told delegates that the two most appropriate arenas for [...]
I mentioned in an earlier post that Davos can be a catalyst for great ideas, and one example is the GreenXchange conceived by Nike. Nike formally launched the Xchange Wednesday morning at a CEO breakfast in Davos. The venue was a conscripted hairdressing salon that was pressed into service by the Forum as a meeting [...]
Don Tapscott presents the future of government during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos 2010.
Notwithstanding that some very good things will likely happen at this year’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, it’s tough to solve the world’s problems in a week. A couple of years ago the Forum’s founder, Klaus Schwab, launched, to say the least, a rather bold undertaking to use the Internet to turn Davos into [...]
As a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, I’ve been attending the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland for a dozen years. But I’ve never anticipated the event more than this year (Jan. 27-31). The theme is to “Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign and Rebuild.” Music to my ears. Evidence is mounting that [...]
By Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams Dear Friends of Wikinomics. We are just finishing the manuscript of a new book. The basic idea is that the principles of Wikinomics, the new Web and mass collaboration provide the keys to transforming more than the corporation (that’s what Wikinomics was about). Rather we can reinvent and rebuild [...]
As the second decade of the new millennium begins, a major issue that will increasingly confront governments is whether the Internet is becoming so integral to day-to-day life that access to the Internet should be considered a basic human right. The governments of Finland and Spain considered the question and concluded that the answer is [...]
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