Mar 25, 2011
Following my posting and video on the public leadership deficit, BNET journalist Phil Dobbie called me from Australia to discuss how the issue is having impact on elections in New South Wales. In Phil’s view: “NSW goes to the polls this week with the choice between one of the most unpopular Labor governments ever, and
Mar 2, 2011
The world, as we all know, faces a massive leadership deficit (see video below). This has become painfully clear in recent weeks across the Arab world, but has long been the case. Faced with crisis in issues of health, income disparity and climate change (to name a few) we now need great leadership more than
Sep 14, 2010
Watch out Al Gore! I heard a fascinating presentation from the Chairman of Nestlé, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, on the global water crisis. Not since seeing Gore present an early version of the presentation that became An Inconvenient Truth have I seen an environmental issue presented in such a compelling and urgent manner. For context, this was
Feb 16, 2010
One of my favorite people in the zone of Social Media-meets-idealism, Nancy Lublin of Do Something introduces 3 trends to watch in 2010 for the use of Social Media for activism: 1- Crowdsourced philanthropy enables “the crowd” to decide to whom organizations and companies grant money. As the advisor of both Chase Community Giving and
Feb 14, 2010
On land, do we eat tigers and lions? No, of course not. In the oceans, however, many of us often do. Sharks, tuna and similar ocean hunters play an important role by maintaining the health of the ecosystem. Saving them from human consumption is an obsession by National Geographic Ocean Explorer Enric Sala. I have
Jul 26, 2009
During a dinner in Washington, Zainab told me the remarkable story about her family’s home in Baghdad. The house has really lived the recent history of Iraq in full. If only the walls could talk… This video really is worth listening to.
Jul 11, 2009
As President of the Thunderbird School of Global Management Angel Cabrera has observed a fascinating new trend in US university education, largely driven by the Internet. First, the Ivy League model: Get as many highly paid Nobel laureates and great researchers as possible and select a small number of elite students. This model has been
Feb 16, 2009
Author of Philanthrocapitalism and the less interestingly titled Essential Economics, Matthew Bishop is Chief Business Writer and US Business Editor of The Economist. Some years ago he was honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. It is a little known fact that 2005 was the United Nations International Year of Microcredit,
Jan 31, 2009
The most amazing session I attended this year in Davos was a 2-hour Dignity Day event in a local school auditorium. Speakers included the schoolchildren, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel, who sang Biko a capella. Hearing Desmond Tutu speak was an incredible experience. I have rarely seen someone captivate and hold an
Apr 7, 2008
The morning after I heard her in concert, I had a chance to do a video quizzing composer, pianist and poet Lera Auerbach about the meaning of music. As a non-musical person, this quest for the meaning of music has become a bit of a crusade. I asked the same of the Chinese composer Chou
Feb 11, 2008
It is hard to fit the sprawling Outblaze empire into one sentence (or YouTube video), so here’s two videos and a few sentences to describe the company founded in Hong Kong by Yat Siu. Starting life in 1998 as an email service provider for ISPs around the world (Currently 40 million users), Outblaze has branched
Dec 19, 2007
Van Jones, a green economy activist and founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, describes how US corn ethanol subsidies have created a dangerous perversion of the food prices. The great ethanol swindle: Ethanol is supposed to saves the environment by offering a renewable source of energy (corn and sugar), but the truth
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
