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Free Movie Night with Mayor Miller & Don Tapscott

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

Join Mayor David Miller and Don Tapscott at Volunteer Toronto’s Free Movie Night featuring Us Now, a UK documentary about how the web enables people of all ages to participate in their communities.

After the screening, a panel discussion on the role of technology in community engagement will take place with Toronto’s social innovation and non-profit organizations:

Allyson Hewitt, Director of Social Entrepreneurship, MaRS Discovery District
Christine Cooper, Executive Director, Family Assoc. for Mental Health Everywhere (FAME)
Mark Surman, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
Mark Kuznicki, Principal, Remarkk and Co-organizer of ChangeCamp
Marco Campana, Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI)

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“Us Now” – Mass Collaboration on Film

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

Us Now is a ground-breaking documentary project about the power of mass collaboration, the internet and its potential impact on society. Directed by Ivo Gormley, the film explores how the web is changing the ways we can organize ourselves. From a democratic football club where the fans pick the team to a lending service where everyone can be a bank manager, Us Now tells the story of new technology through human eyes, and for the first time brings together the leading thinkers in the field of participation and web culture to describe how mass collaboration could change society.

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