ESSAY CONTEST 2014

Topic/Context

The exponential development of digital technologies is transforming society and business – creating new industries, new organizational models, new business models, and a new open culture where collaboration and sharing is the norm. At the same time that it offers great promise, it has the potential to destroy jobs on a very large scale, as the same forces of automation that have relieved humans of repetitive assembly work now advance toward making many of us unnecessary to service work and even knowledge work.

There is no obvious path through this digital wonderland – we must find our own ways individually and collectively. The future is open; all of us are called upon to enhance the good and mitigate the bad. Your essay will offer your personal insights and forward-looking perspectives on the challenge.

Questions

How do you envision your life as a knowledge worker/entrepreneur ten years from now?

How can the capabilities of this "digital wonderland" be leveraged for the benefit of society and individuals?

How can the destructive and dark side of digital technologies be tamed and neutralized? What impact of digital technology do you anticipate in your lifelong learning journey?

Where do you see the best opportunities to create a new Industrial Revolution with digital technologies across all sectors of the economy?

Winners of the Drucker Challenge Essay Award 2014

Students Category

1. Divya Aggarwal (IN)
"Being The Alice Generation"

 

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2. Adarsh Ramesh (IN)
"A Canvas for Tomorrow’s Intellectual Global Village"
 

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3. Abhinav Jha (IN)
"Micro-organizatons and Samvedna: A more effective and empathic knowledge worker"

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3. Sam Goan (AU)
"Our recent past as a road map for the future"
 

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Places 4th to 10th

5. Nayyara Rahman (PA)"Rich cybercitizen, poor cybercitizen - Indigenous technology development for a better world" Download Essay
6. Fabio Di Certo (IT)"On Knowledge, Technology and Society" Download Essay
7. Pedro A. Cardoso de Oliveira (PO)"Aesthetics, Ethics and Technique - A model built upon Druckers knowledge society theory" Download Essay
8. Olivia Osmond (UK)"Employing and Adapting Drucker’s Key Lessons for the Digital Wonderland of Tomorrow" Download Essay
9. Chipo N. Ngongoni (ZW)"Re-Thinking Bits and Bytes" Download Essay
10. Sushanth Bhushan (IN)"How Deep the Robot-Hole Goes" Download Essay
10. Joel Modestus (IN)"Having the whole world and Keeping our soul" Download Essay

Winners of the Drucker Challenge Essay Award 2014

Managers/Entrepreneurs Category

1. A. Venkateswaran (IN)
"Lost in Digital Wonderland? Finding a Path in the Global Knowledge Society"
 

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2. Temitayo Olofinlua (NG)
"The Knowledge Worker in the New Wonderland"
 

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3. Isabella Akinseye (NG)
"The power of online in the knowledge economy: The Nolly Silver Screen Example"

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Places 4th to 10th

4. Zofia Baranska (PL)"Future belongs to travelers" Download Essay
5. Wolfgang Sieberth (AT)"Cyberspace: A New Banana?" Download Essay
6. Shrey Goyal (IN)"Virtual vs. Reality: The Computer as a Companion" Download Essay
7. Yavnika Khanna (IN)"Navigating the New Frontiers of the Great Transformation" Download Essay
8. Nathaniel Manaloto (PH)"Digicraft: Art and Science of Managing Creative Destruction" Download Essay
9. Piotr Hrebieniuk (PL)"Genuineness as an adaptation strategy for organizations" Download Essay
10. Siddharth Wadehra (PH)"A Canvas for Tomorrow’s Intellectual Global Village" Download Essay
10. J. Meyer Andersen (DK)"Lost in Digital Wonderland - Finding opportunities for reflection in the digital age" Download Essay

Our Judging Panel includes

Deepa Prahalad

Deepa Prahalad (US)
Author "Predictable Magic"
and Business Strategist

Elizabeth Edersheim

Elizabeth Edersheim
Creator of ThEME,
Author "The Definite Drucker"