Us Now - Part 1 of 7

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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 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.

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
Sane Kelly
Liam Daish

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interesting, i should make one of these