May 17th, 2013 on The Huffington Post, The Toronto Star
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...
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May 6th, 2013 on The Huffington Post
Like a phoenix from the ashes, Blackberry may actually be making a comeback.
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April 29th, 2013 on The Huffington Post
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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April 27th, 2013 on The Toronto Star
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...
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March 28th, 2013 on RSA
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.
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March 25th, 2013 on The Globe and Mail, The Huffington Post
The obsession with “now” is the topic of Present Shock, the new book from well-known media theorist Douglas Rushkoff.
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March 15th, 2013 on Telefonica
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...
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February 20th, 2013 on The Globe and Mail
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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January 28th, 2013 on The Globe and Mail
One occurrence this week caused me to stand back and reflect more broadly on the meaning of this event and the challenge of improving the state of the world.
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January 27th, 2013 on The Globe and Mail
If there is one issue that is buzzing through Davos like a prairie fire among thoughtful people, it’s that the time has finally come to reinvent higher learning.
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January 25th, 2013 on The Globe and Mail
I’ve just come from an amazing discussion by some brilliant people about how connected vehicles and transportation systems will transform mobility. The discussion focused on how self-driving cars will improve road safety and traffic flow and reduce transportation’s carbon footprint.
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January 24th, 2013 on The Huffington Post
An informed society is one where citizens have the resources, education and skills to access and participate in the free flow of reliable and pertinent information.
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January 23rd, 2013 on The Globe and Mail, The Huffington Post
Highlights from the World Economic Forum's annual Global Agenda Outlook.
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January 21st, 2013 on The Globe and Mail, The Huffington Post
The theme of this year’s congress is a Resilient Dynamism.
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January 16th, 2013 on
Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams launch their latest collaboration with a short ebook published by TED Books.
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January 7th, 2013 on Alliance Magazine
As we enter the age of ‘networked intelligence’, philanthropy is going through a profound change.
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January 7th, 2013 on BT
In his foreword of the white paper ‘The great technology take-up’, Don Tapscott makes the case for collaboration, co-creation and a new set of business principles.
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December 3rd, 2012 on The Huffington Post
The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields. Students are beginning to wonder whether to pay...
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December 3rd, 2012 on The Globe and Mail
Representatives of more than 190 governments begin a profoundly important 12-day closed-door meeting in Dubai on Monday to hammer out how the Internet should be run and who should pay for its operation.
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October 23rd, 2012 on World Economic Forum
This year The World Economic Forum, in partnership with the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, launched a multi-million dollar global investigation of emerging non-state networks of civil society, the private sector, government and individual stakeholders.
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