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Meet the (Real) Net Generation

This is the first generation to come of age in the digital age. Don Tapscott says to under-30s, “You are the dumbest generation.”

New Graduates Must Help to Fix a Broken World

Today's Toronto Star excerpts Chancellor Don Tapscott's convocation address to the new graduates of Trent University. Your liberal arts and sciences degree positions you well to Design You Life as a learner, professional, and a citizen. A new civilization is emerging, enabled by a communications revolution and created by a your generation. It is surely an amazing time to graduate and to be alive.

Latest GSN Research Paper: Knowledge Networks

The latest research paper is complete at GlobalSolutionNetworks.org. Kenneth Abbott and Dr. Thomas Hale present A Guide for Organizational Entrepreneurs

View the research paper on site at: http://gsnetworks.org/research_posts/orchestrating-global-solution-networks/

The Digital Economy Re-Release

The Digital Economy is 20 years old! A new look forward: the original text with brand new essays and updates.

Trent University Convocation Speech

Convocation 2014: Address by Chancellor of Trent University Dr. Don Tapscott

Businesses Should Move on From Cold Hard Cash

According to a new study by the Global Solution Networks program at The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, companies that base their transactions and business on money made of atoms, not digital bits, suffer big time. Is cash bad for business?

Read the full article on Huff Post

What Can a Toronto Mayor Actually Do to Create Jobs?

Don Tapscott writes: Our mayor must understand the key to job creation is entrepreneurship. Canada needs to become an innovation economy and with Toronto at the centre. Close to 80 per cent of new jobs come from companies five years old or less. Entrepreneurship requires innovation, money, partnerships and above all, entrepreneurs.

Read the full editorial on The Toronto Star.

Taking Care of Business

Don Tapscott is well known to many Canadians for his insights on business and technology, and as the author of 15 books. But he’s also a passionate musician who cobbled together a band 15 years ago made up of himself and six executives from the finance and investment world: Gerry Throop, Jim Hardy, Stewart Borden, Vince Mazza, Trish Fonberg and Duke McKenzie.

Read “Bay Street rockers are takin’ care of business – and charities, too” on The Globe and Mail

The Flow of Governance: An interview with Don Tapscott

Many of the world’s problems often seem intractable. Yet as strategy consultant Don Tapscott explains, there are also new ways of solving them.

Watch the video at McKinsey »

The Misguided Attack on Arts and Science Degrees

It’s wrong for governments to shift funding to more practical trades or technical colleges, away from universities. We need both, Don Tapscott writes in this article.

Read the full article at The Star