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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Finale Episode on ReCivilization: Rebooting the Public Square
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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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Interview on CBC Spark: The Future of Crowdsourcing
We recently heard about a new initiative called the “Cool Japan” project. Run by the Japanese government, the idea is to have leading creative lights in Japan post questions or problems to a site called Mazer, and crowdsource the answers.
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ReCivilization Episode Extras and Web Exclusives on Collaborative Healthcare
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Episode Three of ReCivilization is Now Online: Collaborative Healthcare
In part three of ReCivilization, Don examines the future of health care and medicine, where patients become co-managers of their own wellness, and use the web to network with each other for support, knowledge, and healing — outside the old, institutional, medical framework.
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In episode two of ReCivilization, Don looks at the transformation of education and science, and how the sharing of knowledge is moving from the industrial-age model of a one-way broadcast from teacher to student to collaborative, discovery-driven learning, enabled by the web. He also examines a new model for science that favours open data over isolated, patent-driven research.
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