Privacy Articles
What Blockchain Could Mean for your Health Data
In Harvard Business Review, Don and his son Alex discuss the concept of the digital identity, run on a blockchain, as a means to balance privacy and data accessibility as we grapple with big healthcare problems exposed by COVID-19. Read the full article here:...
It’s Time for Corporations to Return their Customer Data to the People
In his feature in the Toronto Star, Don explains the state of digital feudalism and reminds individuals that they have rights to their data - and should demand ownership over it. With blockchain, digital identity can be owned by the individual and used according to...
Why Canada Needs a New Social Contract for the Digital Economy
In his Toronto Star series, Don writes about the need for the creation of new institutions, models, and agreements in order to fundamentally address deep issues facing Canadian society, such as climate change, reconciliation, populism, and xenophobia. This is the new...
We’re Living in an Era of Digital Feudalism. Here’s How to Take your Data and Identity Back
In this Quartz article, Don reviews the feudal nature of our relationship to data companies such as Google and Facebook, and prescribes blockchain as the tool that can return data ownership back to the individual that creates that data. This is self-sovereign...
Understanding Coders
The following is a review of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, by Clive Thompson. The original, abridged version was published last week in the Globe & Mail. Digital technologies surround us, and we all know there are digital...
The Blockchain Future Don Tapscott Wants for his Grandchildren
In this IT World Canada feature, Don argues for the advent of a social contract to meet the digital and privacy needs of his grandchildren by the time they reach 18. He argues that this new age can be run on blockchain, which can fix democracy and free individuals...
Digital Transformation: Interview with Don Tapscott, Author of “Blockchain Revolution”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZY0L3O1sVg Don Tapscott talks about the dark side of the digital age and the need for a new social contract.
Creating a New Social Contract for the Digital Economy
Friends. At the end of Blockchain Revolution, Alex Tapscott and I call for the creation of a new social contract. Technology is breaking down our the agreements that grew from the industrial age – about employment, economic opportunity, public discourse, the...
Don Tapscott on HBR: After 20 Years, It’s Harder to Ignore the Digital Economy’s Dark Side
In 1995, I published The Digital Economy, a book that became one of the first best-sellers about the internet in business. To mark its 20th anniversary, my publisher asked me to write a dozen mini-chapters for a new edition. As I revisited it, I was struck...