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Thank you!

2012-02-22T15:00:00Z

We would like to thank everyone who's contributed to ReCivilization, joined the conversation, and elevated to the fore a very important discussion about the future of our world.

ReCivilization will air again this summer on the program Ideas, so if you missed us on the radio this time around, please check back for exact air dates! In the meantime, you can also listen to the shows online or download the podcasts.

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Inside the CBC, that means the people of CBC Radio's Ideas: especially Dave Field, Lynda Shorten and Bernie Lucht.

Outside the CBC, Don's assistant Jody Stevens, who sent a lot of e-mail and adjusted a lot of schedules, deserves a big hand.

And then there are the guests: Tim Berners-Lee, Eric Schmidt, Tom Kalil, Sue Gardner, Mitchell Baker, Hannah Jones and Reid Hoffman and all the other people we interviewed are very busy people with very important jobs. They happily gave their time to us because they believe in the ideas we are trying to promote. So a huge thanks to everyone who collaborated with us on the air.

Lastly, and most important, are the people who collaborated in the broader way: the listeners, tweeters, e-mailers, and people who contributed with their comments, ideas, criticisms and thoughts. This was a collaborative project through and through, and we were thrilled to start and engage in a very important conversation.

We'll continue this on the web!

Thanks again,

Don, Anthony and Adam

Web Extra: making ReCivilization

2012-02-20T01:01:00Z

Don sits down with ReCivilization's producer, Adam Killick, and talks about his first foray into radio broadcasting!

Listen: Don chats about radio (Pop-up)

Episode Five Extras: Extended interviews

2012-02-19T15:00:00Z

As with each other episode of ReCivilization, there was so much more we wanted to tell you. So here are three extended interviews from the finale!

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First, an extended version of Don's interview with Thomas Kalil, the deputy director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy:

Listen:Thomas Kalil - Extended interview (Pop-up)

The full interview with Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Google:

Listen: Eric Schmidt - Extended interview (Pop-up)

And Don's chat with the Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker:

Listen: Mitchell Baker - Extended interview (Pop-up)

Episode Five: Rebooting the Public Square

2012-02-15T14:28:50Z

In the finale of ReCivilization, Don takes us into the public square, to look at how governments must re-engage with citizens. This means leaving behind the industrial age model of command and control and into moving into an era of openness, transparency, and accessible data that allows citizens to participate fully in designing effective policy and public services. And it means protecting the web as a public space.

Listen: Rebooting the Public Square (Pop-up)

Join the ongoing conversation on Twitter at #recivilization! And you can follow us @recivilization.

Featured Guests:

Thomas Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, Inc.

Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, makers of the Firefox web browser

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web

Replay the live chat

2012-02-15T14:00:02Z

Thanks to everyone who joined Don Tapscott and Leo Laporte for a live chat on TwitTV.

It was a great discussion of the issues brought up in the series, whether it was about the recivilization of the media, education, science, health, medicine, industry, or even about our upcoming final episode about the public square, which features interviews with Eric Schmidt of Google and more from Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web.

Episode Four Extras: extended interviews

2012-02-12T15:00:00Z

As usual, we had far too much terrific content the single hour we're alloted on the radio. So here are extended versions of the interviews that went to air. Enjoy! ]]> An extended version of Don's interview with Reid Hoffman, at LinkedIn's offices in Mountain View, California:

Listen:Reid Hoffman - Extended interview (Pop-up)

The full interview with Robin Chase, the founder of Zipcar and Buzzcar, from Paris:

Listen: Robin Chase - Extended interview (Pop-up)

Our interview in Portland, Oregon, with Nike's Vice President of Sustainability and Innovation, Hannah Jones:

Listen: Hannah Jones - Extended interview (Pop-up)

And, finally, our full-length studio interview with Dara O'Rourke, the co-founder of GoodGuide:

Listen: Dara O'Rourke - Extended interview (Pop-up)

Episode Four: Re-Industrializing the planet

2012-02-08T01:25:16Z

In episode four of ReCivilization, Don examines how the digital revolution has cut transaction costs and changed the notion of the firm, and how business needs to operate collaboratively and transparently -- to meet the needs of increasingly savvy consumers concerned about sustainability and ethical behaviour. As Don says, the level of scrutiny made possible by the web means businesses operate nakedly. And if you're going to be naked, you'd better be buff.

Listen: Episode 4 (Pop-up)

Join the ongoing conversation on Twitter at #recivilization! And you can follow us @recivilization.

Featured guests:

Reid Hoffman, founder and CEO of LinkedIn

Hannah Jones, Vice President of Sustainable Business and Innovation at Nike Inc.

Robin Chase, founder of car-sharing companies ZipCar and BuzzCar

Dara O'Rourke, director of GoodGuide, which evaluates companies based on a scale of corporate responsibility

Gord and Susan Fraser, homeowners in Toronto who operate the Ravina Project, an ongoing, well-documented green-energy experiment that allows them reduce their home's reliance on the electrical grid.

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Episode Three: Collaborative Health Care

2012-02-05T19:39:05Z

In part three of ReCivilization, Don examines the future of health care and medicine, where patients become co-managers of their own wellness, and use the web to network with each other for support, knowledge, and healing -- outside the old, institutional, medical framework.

Listen: Episode Three: Collaborative Health Care (Pop-up)

Join the ongoing conversation on Twitter at #recivilization! And you can follow us @recivilization.

Featured guests:

James Heywood, founder of PatientsLikeMe, an networking site for people suffering from rare diseases

Dr. Mike Evans, Director of the Health Design Lab at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto

Dr. Jay Parkinson, a doctor in Brooklyn, New York, who uses technology to make house calls

Sir Andrew Witty, global CEO of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline

For the extended interviews with James Heywood and Sir Andrew Witty, click here.

Episode Three Extras: Web exclusive and extended interviews!

2012-02-05T15:00:00Z

As usual, we had far too much terrific content to fit into one, 53-minute episode. So again, we're offering some extended versions of the interviews you heard on the radio program or on the podcast. And we're also offering a web-exclusive segment that wasn't on the radio or podcast version of this week's ReCivilization. ]]> PatientsLikeMe an online network where people suffering from rare diseases can collaborate about their care with others who have the same condition.

Listen (Pop-up, runs 26:39)

We also have a longer edit of Don's interview with Sir Andrew Witty, the global CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, recorded at last December's Pan-European Innovation Convention.

Listen (Pop-up, runs 37:07)

And a web exclusive: a short soundscape from a "meetup" of the Toronto chapter of the Quantified Self group, where people use technology to track all sorts of human activity and behaviour.

Listen (Pop-up, runs 3:48)

As always, keep checking back for more content!

Episode Two Extras: extended interviews

2012-01-29T15:01:00Z

Like last week, we had far too much terrific content to fit into one, 53-minute episode. So again, we're offering some extended versions of the interviews you heard on the radio program or on the podcast.
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First up is the almost full-length interview with John Seely Brown, the author of numerous books on radical innovation, particularly when it comes to learning.

Listen:John Seely Brown - Extended interview (Pop-up)

We also have a longer edit of our interview with Shigeru Miyagawa, the char of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare's faculty advisory board.

Listen: Shigeru Miyagawa - Extended interview (Pop-up)

This is a longer version of the short soundscape and interview from the lab of Dr. Aled Edwards of the Structural Genomics Consortium.

Listen:Dr. Aled Edwards - Extended interview (Pop-up)

And finally, this week, here's an extended version of Anthony's interview with Kevin Schawinski, the co-founder of GalaxyZoo and Zooniverse.

Listen: Kevin Schawinski - Extended interview (Pop-up)

Keep checking back for more content!

Episode Two: Open-Source Knowledge

2012-01-24T16:52:58Z

In episode two of ReCivilization, Don looks at the transformation of education and science, and how the sharing of knowledge is moving from the industrial-age model of a one-way broadcast from teacher to student to collaborative, discovery-driven learning, enabled by the web. He also examines a new model for science that favours open data over isolated, patent-driven research.

Listen: Episode Two: Open-Source Knowledge (Pop-up)

Join the ongoing conversation on Twitter at #recivilization! And you can follow us @recivilization.

Featured guests:

John Seely Brown, Visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and author of numerous books on radical innovation, learning and pedagogy

Cecilia d'Oliveira, Executive Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare initiative

Shigeru Miyagawa, Chair, MIT OpenCourseWare Faculty Advisory Committee

Aled Edwards, Director of the Structural Genomics Consortium, which oversees collaborative and patent-free pharmaceutical research

Kevin Schawinski, co-founder of GalaxyZoo and Zooniverse, scientific research projects that engage citizen scientists

Episode One Extras: Video & extended interviews

2012-01-22T14:00:30Z

There's only so much you can fit into 53 minutes of radio, which means that a lot of really interesting stuff ends up on the cutting room floor. Or, at least, in a folder called "extra stuff" on our editing stations.

We'd like to share some of that with you, here on the web, where we have a little more space.

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Listen: Sue Gardner - Extended interview (Pop-up)

Listen: Alan Rusbridger - Extended interview (Pop-up)

We also have a video interview; in this week's show, online broadcaster and Emmy-award-winner Leo Laporte took us on a tour of his California studio. That's what's in the radio and podcast version of this week's ReCivilization. But Don and Leo also sat down for a more formal chat, which we filmed. That's below.

In coming weeks, we'll have more exclusive web content, including behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, as well as other videos and extended cuts. We're also planning to do a live online chat, where you can ask questions about the series and what you've heard.

We hope you enjoy listening and watching as much as we've enjoyed creating.

Cheers,
Adam Killick
Producer, ReCivilization

Episode One: Turning the media inside out

2012-01-04T21:32:03Z

Join us on Sunday, January 22nd at 11am for our first episode!

ReCivilization is a five-part series that examines some of the the biggest challenges facing our world. It charts a path to the future enabled by the revolutions underway in communications, innovation and learning in this new, post-industrial, digital age. Celebrated Canadian author and thinker Don Tapscott guides us along this path with some of the most prominent minds in education, government, industry, the media, science, and health and medicine -- along with the pioneers who are collaborating to create a new era of networked intelligence.

In the first installment of ReCivilization, Don looks at the media and how the industrial-age model of mass production is giving way to new, collaborative and citizen journalism, enabled by the web. Under the old model, newspapers and broadcasters delivered the news to passive listeners and readers; in this new, digital age, anyone can be a publisher or a broadcaster - and traditional media is being forced to adapt. The episode also introduces Anthony D. Williams, Don's longtime collaborator and a regular contributor to the series.

Listen: Turning the media inside out (Pop-up)

Featured guests:

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, on its impact and future.

Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, on Wikipedia and collaborative journalism.

Alan Rusbridger, Editor of Britain's Guardian, on the future of the newspaper.

Leo Laporte, founder of TWiT TV, an entirely online network.