Don Tapscott is chief executive of the Tapscott Group and the chancellor of Trent University. With his son Alex, he is the co-author of Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business and the World and the co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute, a think tank conducting 70 projects about blockchain opportunities and challenges.
The theme of this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum was “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World.” Delegates were asked to consider a renewed commitment to international collaboration to solve global challenges. “Our first response must be to develop new models for co-operation that are not based on narrow interests, but on the destiny of humanity as a whole,” WEF founder Klaus Schwab said.
