Four principles for the open world

1) What is Don’s term for the generation that has grown up “bathed in bits”?
Net generation

2) When Rob McEwen’s geologists were having difficulty identifying the presence and location of the gold in his mines, what radical approach did he take?
Released his data and held the Goldcorp Challenge

3) What does Don mean when he says we have a “burning platform” for change?

He says that the globalization and the global crisis are creating a "burning platform". "The cost of staying where you are is greater than moving to something different." You have to be innovative rather than keeping your old habits. A new economic and global environment is making the word open up to innovation and change.

4) According to Don’s four meanings of openness, what is the difference between “transparency” and “sharing”?

- Collaboration

- Transparency: communication and giving information to the stakeholders (employees, customers, business partners, shareholders). Example of the "tip of the iceberg". Institutions are giving more and more information and thus, they need to have good values and integrity as to be trusted by stakeholders.

- Sharing: Giving up assets/intellectual property, sharing research/data for the industry and for humanity too. It aims at targeting everybody contrary to transparency.

-Empowerement

5) What happens to power structures as knowledge becomes increasingly distributed?

Power becomes decentralized

6) According to Don, the internet did not give rise to an information age, but instead gave rise to:

The Age of Networked Intelligence

7) Don uses an example from nature to demonstrate his four principles for openness. Which 

example does he choose, and in what ways does it exhibit these principles?

He gives the example of birds' natural behavior named "murmuration", that is to say birds assembling together in order to chase away predators. There is clearly a sense of leadership, but there is not only one leader. This phenomenon represents collaboration since all the birds collaborate together. Don says that we should base on this natural behavior for our human relationships. We have to create a "collective intelligence" as he says, just like birds do.