Us Now
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Loading ... - Published date: July 11, 2010
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A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. 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 match 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 this type of participation could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government forever. Us Now follows the fate of Ebbsfleet United, a football club owned and run by its fans; 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 principles of these projects, transparency, 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 participative government as described by Don Tapscott and Clay Shirky amongst others.
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Hello.
I like the vision shared in your movie. It is not about the internet or the power of the internet. It sheds a powerful and visionary light on people like you and me, which use the internet with good and brave intent.
Thank you very much.
At least it is something to think about. Since there are so many actions by individual governments as well as multilevel governmental networks on the one side and industrial complexes on the other side, and since there are hundreds of millions of people even in the “well developed” regions of this world without access to this kind of communication network, your vision very likely will remain in the scope of theory. The real value of your movie though is, in my humble opinion, about values connecting individuals and people alike. And therefore I would like to keep your movie as a reminder of social, ethical and moral values we must not throw or give away.
Put in other words: This movie is about freedom of speech!
Thank you very much for sharing.
Fred
this is funny because i am a student, living in a student flat, in colchester!
i don’t own a share of the football club…
say YES to a resource-based economy when the time has come
I see clearly how a resource based economy can work & yet I am surrounded by people who do not or more frustratingly, agree that it is a a good idea & then go back to being good slaves without really acknowledging that the movement is very real. The sound logic that comes out of the zeitgeist movies as well as information from clips on the internet go a long way to actually making people stop & realise that there are so many like minded people who are at the point where critical mass movement is the next step. I am a 49 year old male who has been a good slave & following orders for over 30 years & it is only in the last 2 years that i have bothered to take my head out of the sand & say wait a minute…something aint right here….