Renting a stranger’s house on the other side of the world, sharing an office space with fellow self-employed creatives, finding out about breaking news before the journalists themselves: often without knowing it, many 21st century citizens now lead a life that has been deeply impacted by the open web and its values of collaboration. A new awareness of our interdependence transforms the way we consume, work, and travel.
Learning is also profoundly transformed by this novel global proximity. As the CEO of E-180, a Montreal-based social entreprise which creates matchmaking tools connecting like-minded people interested in sharing knowledge over a coffee, Christine aims to turn everyone into a lifelong teacher. In order to do so, she is working on turning spaces into peer-learning hubs, just like this: https://vimeo.com/69124866.