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The New Digital Age: Review by Don Tapscott

And while countless books have been written on the subject, none has created such buzz as the recently released The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen. Justly so; this is for your must-read list.

Change Networks

Thanks to the internet revolution and the digital space's communication tools, alternatives to nation-state-based institutions have evolved in the quest for a better world.

Telefonica Guest Post: New Global Networks Offer Great Promise

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?

Why 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 hierarchy run by a (now-deceased) tyrant?

Don Tapscott on CBC Books

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

Let’s Crowdsource Canada

This piece is one of a series of high-profile Canadians commenting on the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's Top 10 reasons Canadian competitiveness is dropping.

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DLD 2013

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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ReCivilization Episode 4

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.