Feb 13, 2015 | Blog
New York’s Department of Financial Services has issued a revision to its proposed “BitLicense” regulatory scheme following a round of public hearings and forums on the first draft that was issued last July. The revision, which addresses topics of...
Feb 3, 2015 | Blog
Don Tapscott reports from Davos: (Davos) With extreme wealth also comes extreme political clout which results in extreme human suffering, said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International at a panel session this week in Davos. Byanyima helped set the...
Feb 2, 2015 | Blog
Don Tapscott reports from Davos: The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos is over for another year. Amazingly, most of what was discussed this year had not been on the radar a year ago. A year ago there was no discussion of oil prices dropping to say $50; the...
Feb 2, 2015 | Blog
Don Tapscott reports from Davos Davos: One of the most anticipated discussions at this year’s meeting was the plenary session on The Digital Economy. Given that I wrote the book that coined that term 20 years ago, I attended with great interest. On the panel were...
Feb 1, 2015 | Blog
Don Tapscott reports in from Davos 2015. Davos: Do you agree or disagree that in the future we will think “Inserting radio-frequency identification in our babies’ bodies is as normal as vaccination”? This is just one of many provocative questions put to the...
Jan 31, 2015 | Blog
Davos: There is much discussion of global risks this week at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, and illustrating today’s volatility, the biggest threat to the stability of the world was not even on last year’s list — international conflict. That is the...
