Us Now
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| Us Now | |
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| Directed by | Ivo Gormley |
| Produced by | Hugh Hartford (Banyak Films) |
| Edited by | Mark Atkins |
| Music by | Orlando Roberton |
Release dates | April, 2009 |
Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
Us Now is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. It is a description of a world on the cusp of the greatest social change since the invention of the printing press.
Us Now tells the stories of online networks that are challenging the existing notion of hierarchy. For the first time, it brings together the fore-most thinkers in the field of collaborative governance to describe the future of government.
All of the material generated during the project will be available to view online and the project will culminate in an hour long documentary to be released in April 2009.
Synopsis
In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is staring intently into his computer screen. He is picking the team for Ebbsfleet United’s FA Trophy Semi-Final against Aldershot . Around the world 35,000 other fans are doing the same thing, because together, they own and manage the football club. If distributed networks of people can run complex organisations such as football clubs, what else can they do?
Us Now takes a look at how the internet could allow us to do away with politicians and run the government ourselves. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government for ever.
Us Now follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United; a football club owned and run by its fans[1], Zopa; a bank in which everyone is the manager, and Couch surfing; a vast online network whose members share their homes with strangers.
The founding principals of these projects; transparancy, self-selection, open-participation, are coming closer and closer to the mainstream of our social and political lives. Us Now describes this transition and confronts politicians George Osborne and Ed Milliband with the possibilities for collaborative government as described by Don Tapscott and Clay Shirky amongst others.
Contributors
Saul Albert
Giles Andrews
Lee Bryant
Alan Cox
David Courtier-Dutton
William Heath
Ed Miliband
Paul Miller
George Osborne
Sophia Parker
MT Rainey
Clay Shirky
Tom Steinberg
Matthew Taylor
Don Tapscott
Mikey Weinkove