Us Now
1x 1hr documentary produced in association with the RSA
Buy this film on DVD £11.50...
"An important and provocative film that people who believe in democracy need to watch"
- Don Tapscott (Wikinomics)
"Everywhere you look, groups of people are using the internet to come together to share with one another, work together, or take some kind of public action" Clay Shirky.
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.
"There's a whole new model emerging where we become part of the government" - Don Tapscott
Read More at the Us Now Website
Directed by Ivo Gormley, Produced by Hugh Hartford, Edited by Mark Atkins (Kurt & Courtney, Biggie & Tupac, Complete History of My Sexual Failures).
Contributors: Don Tapscott, Ed Miliband, William Heath, Martin Sticksl, Lee Bryant, Tom Steinberg, Charles Leadbeater, George Osborne, Saul Albert, Mikey Weinkove, Sunny Hundal, Sophia Parker, JP Rangaswami, Paul Miller, Becky Hogge, Matthew Taylor, MT Rainy, Giles Andrews, Clay Shirky, Paul Miller, Shane Kelly, Liam Daish
Aerial Footage from Optimistic Productions