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If a million people that never met can come together online and create an encyclopedia as good or better than Britanica's, What else can we do?
Can technology enable mass collaboration for legislation and government and do away with lobbyists and corrupt politicians?

A film by IVO GORMLEY and Banyak Films, distributed by VODO and FrostWire.


SYNOPSIS

Film Maker Ivo GormleyIn 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.

US NOW - A film about mass collaboration featured on FrostWireThe 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.

Related Links
US Now - Official Website
An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
VODO.net

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  • randybrown

    US NOW...a terrifying concept.Terrifying is that they the people using this tool had the intelligence to do it before the regular tax paying Joe.Ive forever maintained if the young generation of late 60s early 70s armed with this same tool would have taken the world in a different direction,largely for the better.That tool is at our disposal...wake up...use it...participate in drowning the Monster.A few with no fiancial backing cant do it for the masses,there is strength in numbers with knowledge and communication.

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  • gubatron

    I guess this generation could be even more participative, but the technology has also been used by the pupeteers to distract the young, and worry them about other things (and lies).

    It's indeed a terrifying concept. I've thought that another way to really excercise true democracy, the tax system could be a great instrument.

    If you were able to (optionally) decide where say 20% of your tax money goes to on your 1040 (you mark the percentages to different broad budgets, say education, healthcare, infrastructure, international aid, scientific research, social programs), that'd be a great step into excercising democracy every quarter, not every 4 years.

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  • tz87107

    What details does the aversge joe convey, to aide global social reform? How varied are the subject matters? Does each subject/issue have its own domicile/forum?

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  • krysia27

    Terrifying concept, yes. But come to think of all the possible changes that technology could do - the better ones. It shows that somehow there's still innate goodness in people - take Couch Surfers as an example. Too bad others do not realize that because corruption clouded their minds...

    Global social reform would never happen if we don't start with ourselves, then the immediate people which surrounds us, and hopefully the whole world.

    A great film, indeed.

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  • katmanwon

    The govts. of today are a fraud - it is time for We the People to rule!

    E-mail me & I will send you a short paper that proves the
    THE UNITED STATES is a corporation.

    Start here - pursuant to 28 USC 3002. Definitions.
    (15) "United States" means (A) a Federal corporation (B) an agency, department,...or other entity of the United States; or (C) an instrumentality of the United States,

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  • charlestwilliams

    Katmanwon, please send to me the paper proving america is corporately run and owned... frostygray

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  • lyons194

    hey man, e-mail me that paper. I'm only 15, and I see this country as the sham it really is. Spread the revolution! To quote Alex Jones, "we could have a new Renaissance!"

  • gubatron

    it's nice to see people getting fired up with these concepts, specially the young people.

  • ColeCheri

    I'm a almost 50 year old lady that belives that our teenagers of today will make tommorrow a better place.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=706755809 Anonymous

    Please do email me this work, [email address] man hit me up, if anyone is open for discussion lets talk.

  • newworld

    HI all people in this world,It should not come of any surprise that we ARE SEEING THE RISE OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER. I am 50 years old and i watch daily as we say peace and friendship , and freedom , But still some of the biggest countrys economys around this planet are makeing money from WARS and weapons : The worst thing to happen was for all countrys and peoples to be able to have world wide comunication and see and hear all about what is going on around our small lives. I have heard many times that the freedom we have is only what we are allowed : Surely if one earns moneys and pays tax on that right to work then saveing it should not be taxable again after all when countrys fall and banks dissapear it is the workers who lose all whithout a secound thought. THE KEY ISSUE IS THE WORLD POPULATION AND ITS DEMANDS ON THIS PLANETS RESOURCES , We are not in control of our destany it is only what we are allowed to do and what we pay for : NO ONE CAN WIN <or make any impact on this road of destruction and lives lost

  • gubatron

    I don't agree with you on the part of us having world wide communication being something bad. If anything having us disconnected was awesome for whoever is behind NWO.

    If I ran my my own secret NWO society, the first thing I'd hate to loose is the power of controlling people's beliefs via my Media and News outlets. Thanks to the internet we have loads of people documenting what actually happens even before it goes out through the older channels, which we used to believe in blindly until not long ago where all other information wasn't as readily available and so many things were based on rumors.

    I agree though with your key issue about population growth and planet resources demand ever increasing. Let's hope the problem will not be solved by killing loads of people during the next years, although things like Tobacco being legal seem to me like population growth control products, Tobacco alone is responsible for 1 in 5 deaths in the United States (source http://www.cancer.org)

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    Katmanwon Please send me what you have and I will have a look. I too agree the world is going to shit but if everyone stands up to the bad guys what are they gonna do? There are millions of us..how many run the government?!?! :)

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    hi.. im dominique,17 years old. I find the thing that you said really intriguing and i'm eager to know more about it. I believe that the youth should be more aware of these things. can you email me that paper...? please?

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  • jcroc

    I agree completely with the A merica being a corporation. I have felt like this for many years and have been spreading the wrod where I live about my feelings. Everyone that I have talked to even high ranking members of church and others agree with me once they take a look at the structure and way America is governed.

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  • ijames

    i'm definitely interested in reading your paper. email me.

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    Hey - I'd LOVE to read that paper!
    Completely agree with you.

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  • cameron1983

    I think your doing a great thing to many people stand by care free hoping our guvorment & economy will repair themselves not realizing if we were all to take action we ourselves could resolve so many of our basic problems and i dont mean anything like radiculizum but to simply take some kind of action is better than watching & i quote our nation go to shit during proebition there was a saying .The power is with the people.This is just as true now as it was then

  • cameron1983

    You see ! This is why i so rearly even read blogs any more hear they want to unite and use the power of numbers to emprove the rediculous flows our goverment has and yet people are already talking about NWO we need to unite and do exactly what there talking about reconstruct our goverment so we no longer find ourselves in these deficites if we could all unite as a mass and resolve these type of issuse then we might could talk of a globle benificil NWO but for the most part you guys sound like a cult the way your talking of instiantainous NWO and im not trying to ofend but i want to reply to all your blogs as honestly as possible and please reply.

  • gubatron

    I'm not sure however if the masses are wise. There should be some sort of qualification process, some sort of test to rid the opinions of the fools. Even if the masses could vote, there would still be a lot of money from the usual suspects in promoting their ideas to the masses, so things wouldn't change.

    It's a great idea, but It has to be thought out well, for what I say is also not unfair since you don't want to be elitist and exclude less smart people from decision making.

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  • fallenfighter

    Amazing, im in, send me one and heck, im only 13

  • clint

    katmanwon ... can you please e-mail that paper on the US government? i have some ideas also if you're interested in me forwarding some e-mails to you.

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  • clint

    katmanwon ... can you please e-mail that paper on the US government? i have some ideas also if you're interested in me forwarding some e-mails to you.

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