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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 organization. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.

This hour long film, while focusing on government, gives a good introduction to social collaboration through the internet. Social collaboration, while not a new concept, is starting to pick up mass acceptance on a larger scale.  For those that don’t know, it’s the concept of being able to use the power of numbers to distribute the work load and gain a better end product that ends up helping the rest of the society. While watching this documentary (in full or in part), remember to apply the basic concepts to all areas of a process. The entire documentary can be seen embedded above. In the event that you would like to watch it at your own leisure, there is a torrent of it here.

Beyond just the video, the site also opens up the conversation to the twitterverse through #hashtags. These conversations can be seen on their website here.

For me this was a bit inspiring to see the topic being discussed in a more traditionally covered medium – the documentary. I love the concept and hope to integrate it in a lot of the work that I do personally. I hope that you’ll find it influential as well.

Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo.

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UPDATE: If you find yourself interested in this topic, Wired just released a really good article on it as well entitled The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society is Coming Online