Contact RSA for event and ticket information.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (GMT)
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.
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.
 |
View other RSA events |
 |
Contact the Host |
 |
Subscribe to receive notifications of future events by this host |
Email
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
MySpace
Digg
del.icio.us
Reddit