Four principles for the open world - Don Tapscott

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

Answer D: 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?

Answer  B: 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”?

Transparency is making available to all information or as Don states it ' the communication of information', whilst sharing, he refers to as giving up assets (intellectual property)

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

Answer  B: Power becomes decentralized 

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

Answer E: 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?

To demonstrate his four principles for openess, Don is talking, first of all about the example of birds near Edimbourg that comes in "murmuration". That is one of the most spectacular things in nature. 
Because, it is the aims of this action is to protect birds from predators, to be usefull, birds have to collaborate all together to can create a collective power, like in the human world. He also talk about leadership that was important to create a collective intelligence and a kinf of consciousness.