Don Tapscott is Chairman of Digital 4Sight (formerly the Alliance for Converging Technologies), a think-tank that is currently conducting a series of multi-million dollar investigations regarding how the Internet and new media are transforming business, government and society.

Mr. Tapscott is also President of New Paradigm Learning Corporation. He is described by Vice President Al Gore as "one of the world's leading cyber-gurus" and by the influential Washington Technology Report as one of the most influential media authorities since Marshall McLuhan. He is an internationally sought consultant, speaker, and authority on information technology in business and consults to the world's largest corporations. His clients include top executives of many Fortune 100 Companies and other leading enterprises around the world. Mr. Tapscott travels internationally where he presents to government and business leaders on information technology policy and strategy.

                                   Mr. Tapscott has authored seven widely read books on the application of technology in business. The  Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence (1996) is one of the best selling books about technology in business ever, appearing on a number of best-sellers lists, including Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation, won the first Amazon.com Bestseller Award in the summer of 1998. It has been "recommended for all libraries" by the Library Journal.Mr. Tapscott is also the co-author of the international bestseller Paradigm Shift: The New Promise of Information Technology (1993). which was the first book to describe the fundamental change in computing from host-based systems for controlling costs to networks for transforming business models and strategy Creating Value in the Digital Economy (1999) is a selection of the best articles from the Harvard Business Review on how networks change business models and strategy, edited and with an introduction by Mr. Tapscott
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His new book, co-authored with David Ticoll and Alex Lowy, entitled Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs, (June 2000) describes how b-webs are replacing the traditional model of the firm and changing the dynamics of wealth creation and competition. Digital Capital is an instant best seller and described by Warren Bennis as "arguably the single best guide to corporate survival in the new economy."

Deeply committed to the issue of mental health, he is a former member of the Board of Trustees at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and a current member of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation Board. He and his wife, Ana Lopes, are the benefactors of the Tapscott Chair in Schizophrenia Studies at the University of Toronto. He is also involved extensively in the transformation of education, working with many universities, school boards and Educational Secretaries and Ministers around the world. As such, he is the Chair of the Trent University Capital Fundraising Campaign.

Mr. Tapscott holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and Statistics and a M.Ed. specializing in Research Methodology

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