Dec 10, 2007
Jennifer Corriero, co-founder of TakingITglobal.org, describes innovations to their Online service that helps young activists The site, claiming hundreds of thousands of visitors each month from countries around the world, aims to help students and young people improve the world through organized community action. Activist toolkit TakingITGlobal gives advice and offers online tools for organizing
Dec 9, 2007
In this video, Leslie Maasdorp and I speak about the program we just attended that Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government created for the World Economic Forum‘s Young Global Leaders. Entitled Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century, the program has been described by the World Economic Forum and written about by Harvard, so
Nov 24, 2007
Disruptive ideas, by their very nature, are difficult execute. This is a problem for someone trying to push through innovations. Simultaneous agreement of conservative decision-making bodies such as governments, boards and city councils can be near impossible. Opposition can often only be overcome with strong sequential negotiation skills. Citing coalition-building tactic from Gulf War I,
Nov 1, 2007
In a video featuring many photographs of Young Global Leaders, David Aikman of the World Economic Forum explains in this video how, why, who and for what reason the group was formed. Operating under the umbrella of the World Economic Forum – the Geneva-based organization founded by Klaus Schwab that has a high profile annual
Oct 26, 2007
Nice article today in the International Herald Tribune on Angel Cabrera, a friend who, as president of the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, has been pushing an ethics oath for business school students. The oath: Students at Thunderbird have voted to adopt a Professional Oath of Honor, which they helped formulate. Graduating students
Oct 22, 2007
Thomas Friedman highlights, efforts by Jack Hidary, a good friend who recently visited us in Beijing, to turn New York’s car fleets green: Take the New York City taxi story. Two years ago, David Yassky, a City Council member, sat down with one of his backers, Jack Hidary, a technology entrepreneur, to brainstorm about how
Oct 9, 2007
A new breed of super-rich is now facing the decision of what to do with their money and Matthew Bishop, US business editor of The Economist has been looking at their philanthropic activities. They certainly have the potential to do a great deal of good, but they could easily pervert the current aid and development
Oct 2, 2007
Salman Iqbal, President and CEO of the ARY Digital Television Network, speaks about the vast changes sweeping through Pakistan’s television and media market. Some background: When launched in 1997, ARY was the first private television network and has been a key force in modernizing Pakistan’s television. The network operates out of Dubai Media City. The
Oct 1, 2007
By Thomas Crampton October 1, 2007 – Niklas Zennstrom, CEO and co-founder of Skype, today stepped down from the company ahead of the scheduled work-through period for its acquisition by eBay. Shortly before the public announcement of his departure, Zennstrom agreed to give an exclusive English-language interview to this blog. (He has also agreed to
Sep 30, 2007
Penny Low, one of the youngest women ever elected to the Singapore Parliament, speaks in this video about the Social Innovation Park in Singapore that she heads. The SIP, as it is called, aims to cultivate and nurture Singapore’s social entrepreneurs. While the world has never been so affluent and never had so much technology,
Sep 20, 2007
While newspapers may be a suffering in most markets, they remain a growth business in India, according to Raju Narisetti, the former editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe, who recently launched what is now India’s newest and fastest-growing business newspaper, Mint. Narisetti said his English-language newspaper has quickly gathered readership among the highly sought-after
Sep 14, 2007
A lively critique of “The Speech” that China’s leaders seem to offer up each time they address an international audience was delivered by Clay Chandler of Fortune magazine when he moderated a panel at the World Economic Forum’s Summer Davos in Dalian At 4 minutes 40 seconds in this video, Clay expresses extreme disappointment at
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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...
