In a world in which information is like air, what happens to power?
New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.
This website features all material being created during the making of the film.
Alan Cox" It is like the industrial revolution took quite a while to change the world, I don't think the Internet revolution will take any less time."
Blog
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Us Now Global Screening project announced
Following the success of previous Us Now screenings, Celina Agaton is organising a series of screenings across the globe in association with Net Tuesdays, One Web Day and Open Everything. Don Tapscott and Director Ivo Gormley, based on availability, will Skype/video/keynote the events and/or answer audience Q&As. Promotional, event and audience content will be shared via [...]
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Invite your MP
On Wednesday evening Us Now will be screened in the Houses of Parliament. Some MPs are coming but not all of them, we’d like as many as possible to come. If you’d like your MP to come along then please write to them and let them know. You can do that really easily here. If you [...]
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Us Now in parliament
Us Now will be screened in parliament next week at an event in association with More4 and Reboot Britain. Respondants will include Lord David Puttnam and Rupa Huq. The discussion will be chaired by Catherine Fieschi, director of the British Council thinktank. For more details and to attend the event please go here: www.usnowparliament.eventbrite.com
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Us Now and European Governments
Us Now has been screened at the Hague and the French National Assembly in the last two weeks. The Dutch screening was hosted by the Minister for Agriculture and the event itself was organised on a new collaborative civil servant’s website - Ambtenaar 2.0. The French screening was organised by the 27e Region; a public [...]
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Watch Us Now online now!
Follow the links at the very top of the page to watch Us Now online. Thousands of people tuned in yesterday to watch the film and view the launch events’ panel discussions in London and Harvard coordinated by FutureGov and the British Council. The film is now freely available online to stream or download, if you’d [...]
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Us Now - Part 1 of 7
Buy the full length film on DVD here: http://banyak.co.uk/shop-usnow.php
Uploaded Thursday 27 November 2008
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Sophia Parker - Feedback & Consultation
Uploaded Monday 23 February 2009
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Don Tapscott - Corporate Behaviour
Uploaded Thursday 19 February 2009
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JP Rangaswami
Uploaded Thursday 19 February 2009
