Wikinomics Articles
My top ten themes from Davos, part 1
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...
Davos: Nike and partners launch the GreenXchange
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...
Digitizing Davos
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...
What Should be the Title to The Sequel to Wikinomics?
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...
The friend of my friend is my friend
Suddenly yesterday I started receiving hundreds of friend requests on Facebook, far more than I normally receive. I Tweeted this fact and others replied that they had experienced the same phenomenon. Finally pieced together why. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg...
The UK government's Digital Economy Bill is deeply flawed.
As the person who coined the term The Digital Economy in my 1995 book of that title, I feel obliged to comment on the UK government’s Digital Economy Bill, which was unveiled last Friday. The proposed law is fundamentally flawed because it punishes Internet users...
What should the new book's title be?
I have a group project. Anthony D. Williams, my co-author of Wikinomics, and I are writing a new book about rebuilding the world for an age of networked intelligence. We need to redesign all of our institutions for the global, knowledge economy. The global economic...
Macrowikinomics on TVO’s Allan Gregg
Don Tapscott discusses his latest book, Macrowikinomics with Allan Gregg.