Presentation from 2012 Deepak Chopra Sages and Scientists about the linkages between connectivity and happiness. How to drive public policy to connect communities and create a global consciousness through connected communities.

1. The Transformative Currency of
Connectivity

2. Credit: We Are Social

3. Credit: We Are Social

9. The new currency of global growth
is the network and the network
happiness effect

10. The Social Glue of Oxytocin
Paul Zak discovery that social networking
triggers the release of oxytocin, a chemical in
the brain that heightens feelings of
trust, empathy and generosity similar to when
we fall in love.

11. New England Journal of Medicine: The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network
Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., and James H. Fowler, Ph.D.
N Engl J Med 2008; 358:2249-2258May 22, 2008

12. If I were the King of Bhutan and my
mandate was happiness would I
connect my country?

16. The correlation between happiness and connectivity

17. Bhutan case
YEAR Users Population % Pen. GDP p.c.*
2000 500 812,184 0.0 % US$ N/A
2007 30,000 812,184 3.7 % US$ 767
2010 50,000 699,841 7.1 % US$ 2,042
Source: ITU

18. It is not the strongest of the species
that survives, nor the most intelligent
that survives. It is the one that is the
most adaptable to change.
- Charles Darwin

19. Questions
Erin Mote
Principal
The Verban Group
erin@verbangroup.com