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Don Tapscott fonds
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- Source of title proper: Fonds based on the creator of the fonds.
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1981-2012 (Creation)
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- Tapscott, Don
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3 m of textual records
ca. 60 photographs : ca. 20 negatives
ca. 535 slides
92 compact disks
1 VHS tape
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Biographical history
Don Tapscott (b. 1947) is one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology; in this capacity, he advises business and government leaders around the world. In 2013 and 2015, Thinkers50 ranked him fourth among the world’s most influential management thinkers. In 2013, he was also awarded the Global Solutions Award for launching and leading the Global Solution Networks program based at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Tapscott has authored or co-authored 15 widely read books including the 1992 bestseller Paradigm Shift. His 1995 The Digital Economy changed thinking around the world about the transformational nature of the Internet. Two years later he defined the Net Generation and the “digital divide” in another publication, Growing Up Digital. His 2000 work, Digital Capital, introduced seminal ideas such as “the business web”. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the bestselling management book in 2007 and has been translated into over 25 languages. In his forward to Tapscott’s newest book, The Digital Economy: 20th Anniversary Edition (2014), Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman, Google) writes: “Don remains one of the most perceptive thinkers about the way technology is transforming business and society. Several of his predictions—from networked intelligence to the demands on leaders to embrace technology — have taken permanent hold.” For over 30 years, Tapscott has introduced many ground-breaking concepts that are part of contemporary understanding. A Trent alumnus, his work continues as CEO of The Tapscott Group and a member of World Economic Forum. Don Tapscott was Chancellor of Trent University from 2013 to 2019. (Taken from the Trent University web site (http://www.trentu.ca/chancellor/), 25 March 2015).
Custodial history
Fonds was in the custody of Don Tapscott before being donated to Trent University Archives in 2014.
Scope and content
Fonds is comprised of correspondence, published articles, photographs, slides, and CDs of speeches, interviews, and meetings pertaining to the career of Don Tapscott.
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Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Fonds acquired from Don Tapscott in 2015.
Arrangement
The materials in this fonds were received enclosed in plastic sleeves inside binders; for the purposes of preservation and space efficiency, the documents were removed from their enclosures and placed in acid-free folders according to a chronological arrangement and by book title. Box 11 Folder 1 contains Lists of press clippings about Don Tapscott. These lists may be helpful in identifying and locating materials arranged chronologically in Boxes 1-9.
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Some of the material in this fonds is comprised of published articles. Copyright applies in all instances.
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See 15-013 for additional materials.
General note
NOTE: Boxes 1, 2, 3, and 4 (folders 1-12a) include generic correspondence and emails, transparencies, press releases, magazine and journal articles by Tapscott, and published reviews about Tapscott and his published works. The materials are arranged in date order.
Box 1
Folder
- September 1981 – December 1983
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990
- 1991
- January – September 1992
- October – December 1992
- January – June 1993
- July – August 1993
- September – December 1993
- December 1993
- January – May 1994
- June - November 1994
- December 1994
- January – May 1995
- June – August 1995
- September 1995
- October – November 1995
- 1–15 December 1995
- 15-30 December 1995
Box 2
Folder
- January 1996
- February 1996
- 1-15 March 1996
- 15-30 March 1996
- April 1996
- 1-27 May 1996
- 28-30 May 1996
- June 1996
Box 3
Folder
- July 1996
- August – September 1996
- October – November 1996
- December 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- January – March 1999
- April – May 1999
- June – July 1999
- August – October 1999
- November – December 1999
- January – February 2000
- March 2000
- April 2000
- May 2000
- June – August 2000
- September – December 2000
- March – December 2000 (correspondence only)
- January – June 2001
- July – December 2001
- January – December 2001 (correspondence only)
- January – March 2002
- April – August 2002
- September – November 2002
Box 4
Folder
- December 2002
- 2002-2003 (correspondence only)
- January – June 2003
- July – December 2003
- January – June 2004
- July – December 2004
- 2005
- June 2006 – December 2007
- March – May 2008
- June – September 2008
- 15 November – 15 December 2008
- 16 December 2008 – March 2009
12a. 2011-2012
The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business
/ Don Tapscott and David Ticoll, 2003
Press releases, reviews, emails
- August – September 2003
- October 2003
- November – December 2003
- January – May 2004
- June – December 2004
EnRoute (2002-2004)
Binder of EnRoute magazine articles by Don Tapscott, 2002-2004
Box 5
The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence
/ Don Tapscott, 1997
Press releases, reviews, emails
Folder
- March – December 1996
- January – April 1997
- May – September 1997
- October – December 1997
- May – July 1998
- September – December 1998
- 1999
- March – April 2000
- Gabler press clippings
Box 6
Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
/ Don Tapscott, McGraw-Hill, 1999.
Press releases, reviews, emails
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- 1996
- January – June 1997
- July – September 1997
- October 1997
- 1–10 November 1997
- 11–20 November 1997
- 21-30 November 1997
- December 1997
- January 1998
- 1-15 February 1998
- 16-28 February 1998
- 1-20 March 1998
- 21-30 March 1998
- April 1998
- May – June 1998
- July – August 1998
- September 1998
- 1–20 October 1998
- 21-30 October 1998
- November 1998
- December 1998
Box 7
Folder
- January – February 1999
- March – May 1999
- June – August 1999
- September – October 1999
- November – December 1999
- January 2000
- March – May 2000
- November – December 2000
- 2001-2004
Box 8
Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
/ Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, and Alex Lowy, 2000
Press releases, reviews, emails
Folder
- April – May 1999
- June 1999
- July - September 1999
- October – November 1999
- December 1999
- January 2000
- February 2000
- March 2000
- 1–15 April 2000
- 16–30 April 2000
- May 2000
- 1–10 June 2000
- 11–20 June 2000
- 21-30 June 2000
- July 2000
- August 2000
- September 2000
- October 2000
- November 2000
- December 2000
- January 2001
- February – April 2001
- May – June 2001
- July – August 2001
- September – December 2001
Box 9
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
/ by Anthony D. Williams and Don Tapscott, 2006
Folders
1-4. Reviews, 2006-2010
Loose in box:
VHS (1) titled: “Don Tapscott, IBM Industry Executives, Transportation – Phoenix, May 4, 1994”
CDs (92): the titles on the CDs refer to interviews, speeches, and meetings involving Don Tapscott, ca. 1989-2007. Note: A list of the titles provided by the donor is included in the box.
Posters (2): 1) re: public address by Tapscott at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Harvard University, 2000; 2) re: Trent University publicity poster featuring Tapscott, n.d.
Loose on Shelf
White binder titled: “Digital 4Sight PR Database: Digital Capital and Digital 4Sight as of July 10, 2000”
Black binder titled: “Paradigm Shift & DMR Slides, 1982-1992” – contains ca. 535 slides (note: most are unidentified)
Box 10
New Paradigm / Don Tapscott
Publication of New Paradigm Learning Corporation of which Tapscott is Chief Executive: “NGEN Big Idea. The Net Generation: Key Findings from the Qualitative Study “My Internet Life”” by Mike Dover, Nikki Papadopoulos and Karolina Kibis, July 2007
Numerous publications pertaining to New Paradigm’s Big Idea Information Technology & Competitive Advantage Program (Executive Director: Don Tapscott), all dated 2005
Box 11
Folder
- Lists of press clippings on the subject of Tapscott provided by the donor (these lists may be useful in identifying and locating published materials in Boxes 1-9)
- Photographs of Don Tapscott (ca. 60); also pencil sketch of Tapscott signed “Marcel 2008”
- Miscellaneous:
- a biographical sketch outlining Tapscott’s major achievements up to 1997
- a chart of music bands of Peterborough titled “Peterborough’s Rock & Roll Roots”: chart includes “John Bull’s Other Island 1966” of which Don Tapscott is listed as “keyboard” (note: this item was received from Alumni House, 2014)
- invitation to “First International Conference on Reinventing Government”, n.d.