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(OFF) Thanks very much...

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(David Price) This is the 
........ - shrinking (check) presentation.

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It was originally 25 minutes,
last night it was 23,

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now it's 22.

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I've got a 45-minute presentation,
I'm just going to speak twice as quickly.

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No, I'm only kidding, it's only 
20 -- 22 minutes.

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And I've got to think of the time 
to make sure I don't go over.

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About four moths ago, I was diagnosed
with cancer of the colon.

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And what was it? Seven weeks ago,
I had the operation

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which kind of went OK, 
got rid of the tumor,

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But when the colon got reconnected,
it sprung a leak

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and I got a thing called sepsis, 
which I later discovered,

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is fatal in 60% of the cases.

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What essentially happens with sepsis is

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the organs start to pack in, 
one after the other, so

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my heart was fibrillating, I lost --
kidneys stopped working,

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lungs stopped working, so they
pumped me on a ventilator.

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And my wife Claire (check)
who is here somewhere

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was told to bring the family around, 
because they didn't expect me

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to get through the week-end.

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As you can see, I survived, and this is
actually the first talk I've given

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since I was in intensive care.

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I was in intensive care for a week.

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So, when a sick -- no, no honest
(Applause)

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But when I say I'm delighted to be here,
I'm not just being polite.

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(laughter)

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I'm talking existentially 
rather than conversationally.

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But I wanted to start with that story
because, in that process of the journey

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from diagnosis to operation,
I met with some remarkable people:

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on forums and ingress (check) groups,
but I also visited and interviewed people.

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So I interviewed some people 
in the Netherlands

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who are treating their loved ones,
who've got end-stage cancer.

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They are lay people, computer technicians

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who, frankly, conventional medicine
has given up, they're stage 4,

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they said there is nothing more we can do,

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so they're administering 
endovenous cocktails of drugs.

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some of which are approved, 
some of which are off-patent,

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some of which are off-label (check).

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I visited a clinic, here in Germany,
which I can't name, because

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they kind of operate in the shadows
in fear that they'll be closed down.

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And what it seemed to me,
once I looked beyond health

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is that this is a phenomenon 
which is happening

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in all kinds of areas of public life.

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That we're seeing what I call 
people-powered innovation.

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And I think it's a real challenge for
institutions and organizations.

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So, why is it important?

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I think it's important because it's
kind of a natural consequence

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of the issues I talk about 
in my book "Open".

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where, now that we're able to share
and exchange knowledge,

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we're now at a point where 
we want to do something about it,

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we want now to be more in control
of our own lives.

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But I think it's particularly important
for the people who are in this room today:

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educators and human resource people. 3:05