H.E. Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark; Mitchell Baker, Executive Chairwoman Mozilla (Firefox); Aliko Dangote, Founder and Chair of Dangote Group; Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chair of Bharti Enterprises; Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia and WikiTribune, United Nations General...
Digitization has brought consumers an ever-expanding menu of goods and services to choose from, some of which are free. Many goods and services consumers once paid for are now available online at a swipe or a click. Wikipedia’s English-language pages alone would ...
Secretary of State, Virgin Group, Wikipedia, Zhou Yuan | Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders, An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, will join global thought leaders at CME Group’s Global Financial Leadership Conference (...
In the past few years, the ability to organize communities of Web participants to develop, market, and support products and services has moved from the margins of business practice to the mainstream. Wikipedia and a handful of open-source software...
like you would make to TheGuardianor Wikipedia, just to keep the content going. And that’s helped me. At least probably one of the biggest changes with the newsletter is trying to let more people have ownership over it, so letting other people contribute translations...
Whatever welfare or consumer surplus Wikipedia is creating, that’s pure welfare, on top of what GDP was even capturing, because GDP would have actually gone down. Michael Chui: So in the perfect case of the new set of national accounts, you would actua...
It is important to appreciate that there might be unintended consequences for a major platform like Wikipedia. Also, if you look at the comparison between incentives on the part of WhatsApp, for example, which is owned by Facebook, or Signal, which is also a not for profit, we can see ...
How do you move your hands? There’s so many of these tacit knowledge things that a dentist has that you can’t read in Wikipedia—that a pilot has when the pilot is flying a plane. None of us want to get in a plane where the pilot says,...
But you also get things like Wikipedia or Twitter. Twitter was Plan B out of Odeo. Odeo was about to tank. They’re, like, “Well, we’re going to run out of money. There’s got to be something else we can do.” And the mission statement ...
Finally, trade statistics do not track soaring cross-border flows of free digital services, including email, real-time mapping, video conferencing, and social media. Wikipedia, for instance, encompasses 40 million free articles in roughly 300 languages. Every day, users worldwid...