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RSA Screens - Us Now

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (GMT)

London, United Kingdom

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The RSA in association with Banyak Films presents a documentary-film about mass collaboration, the internet and its power to transform society.

Join us for this special screening and discussion.

Chair: JP Rangaswami, Managing Director, BT Design

Directed by Ivo Gormley, Us Now follows the story of online networks whose radical self-organising structures challenge existing notions of hierarchy. Ebbsfleet United, a football club owned and run by its fans, all 35,000; and  Zopa, a bank in which everyone is the manager.

Us Now
takes a look at how the internet’s capacity to create new participatory structures could transform governance and deepen democracy. With contributions from Clay Shirky, Tom Steinberg, Matthew Taylor, MT Rainey and other fore-most thinkers in the field of participative governance, Us Now, also has contributions from politicians George Osborne MP and Ed Miliband MP on the possibilities for the internet to enhance democracy.

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Durham House Street entrance
WC2N 6EZ London
United Kingdom

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (GMT)


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For more than 200 years, the RSA has provided platforms for leading public thinkers. That tradition lives on in our free events programme.

Our distinguished and diverse roll call of speakers has recently featured, amongst others, Kofi Annan, Wangari Maathai, Al Gore, Clay Shirky, Jeffrey Sachs and Craig Venter.