I'd be posting these videos even if Paul Bennett and I weren't colleagues at IDEO, so rich and fascinating is this conversation between Paul and Egill Helgason, the host of the Icelandic show Silfur Eglis. Design thinking is a central theme of their time together, and they touch on many important topics of the day, including transparency, community, and how we might move ourselves out of this mess. It's definitely worth a listen.
And don't worry — it's all in English! Enjoy.
Vanity Fair did a fantastic in-depth article on Iceland that chronicles how it got into its financial mess. Thought you might be interested:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904