In the current issue of EDUCAUSE Review, Anthony D. Williams and I have a 6,000-word essay discussing the urgent issues facing universities, that left unresolved, would see intuitions of higher learning going into a death spiral akin to what we see happening to encyclopedias, newspapers, and music record labels.
For fifteen years, we’ve been arguing that [...]
The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I posted themes 1 – 5 yesterday. Here are themes 6 – 10.
6. The world needs better governments.
Some governments in Central America and Africa are just [...]
The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I’ll post five today and five tomorrow.
1. The state of the world is not good.
The theme of Davos was Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild, which may sound a [...]
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 discussion [...]
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 space. [...]
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 a [...]
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 the [...]
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 just about [...]
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 Yes. [...]
I wrote yesterday that the new polling just released by Harvard’s Institute of Politics shows that young Obama supporters continue to say they will volunteer on his behalf despite misgivings with how the president is handling a number of issues. For many young people, the bloom is off the Obama rose.
Many young adults are [...]
