Don Tapscott of Wikinomics: We're undergoing a shift away from institutions to people

Don Tapscott says that from the past, where individuals worked for companies and that was their relationship to the economy, we have entered a new age of participation, where people can not only read an encyclopedia, they can write it. They can not only watch the evening news, they can produce it. They can not only be the recipient of a lecture, they can become an educator as part of the global economy. They can not only be the passive recipient of government services, they can get engaged and shape the directions of governments.

In this video interview, author and visionary Don Tapscott shares his idea of the Web as a giant programmable computer with Ideas Project, a new website brought to you by Nokia. Ideas Project is an online space that provides a new way to interact with thought leaders and their big ideas about the future of connected communications. For more on this idea from Tapscott, visit http://www.ideasproject.com.

Don Tapscott, a business executive and an internationally recognized author, consultant and speaker based in Toronto, specializes in business strategy, organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society. Tapscott is chairman of the business strategy think tank New Paradigm (now nGenera). Author or co-author numerous widely read books on the application of technology in business and society, his most recent book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (co-authored with Anthony Williams and published in 2006) is also a widely visited Web site. His popular 1997 book Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation explained the business and social impact of the first generation to come of age in the digital age. Digital Economy: Promise and Peril In The Age of Networked Intelligence, published in 1995, was one of the first books to describe how the Internet would change business and society. Tapscott is probably best known for his 1992 book Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology. Tapscott holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and Statistics and an M.Ed. specializing in Research Methodology.

Ideas Project, a project of Nokia, brings together the most visionary and influential big thinkers to contemplate the big ideas that matter most to the future of communications. It is also a new kind of conversation platform aimed at uncovering the connections between these big thinkers and their disruptive ideas.

Explore the Ideas Project website at http://www.ideasproject.com, subscribe to its RSS feed, join its Twitter feed, and come back often to learn about great new big ideas as they break.

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[applesweeter]

@ThePappaStu

Yes, I agree with your vision.

How does wikinomics relate to the values of lean, leadership and working together?

[ThePappaStu]

@applesweeter i'm an engineering graduate at Airbus and i can say that we've just started to recognise the potential of wikinomics in our department, and are looking into the benefits. I've formed a small group of like minded people to look into the long term deployment of user friendly collaboration and shared knowledge tools, to see how they will make our jobs easier.

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some questions:

*Why does wikinomics closely related to aeroplane production? (Airbus has "Fly You Idea" program to gather new idea to design environmental friendly aeroplanes)

*What is the essential elements for the idea od wiki to work well in aerospace industry? (eg. Lean, leadership, working together...etc)

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)