Video Review: Playing for change “Stand By Me”

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I recently gave a pre­sen­ta­tion where I dis­cussed  how the explo­sion of pro­cess­ing power and com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­works have enabled col­lab­o­ra­tion across bound­aries like we have never imagined.

Today’s video show­cases an exam­ple of off-line col­lab­o­ra­tion that has taken the inter­net by storm. Play­ing for Change is a move­ment that aims at con­nect­ing peo­ple through­out the world through music. The twist? Songs are com­piled vir­tu­ally; a tech­ni­cal crew trav­elled the world, and with record­ing equip­ment, asked peo­ple who were on the street “play­ing for spare change” to col­lab­o­rate. The result is incred­i­ble, and has now been shared with mil­lions through social media and other plat­forms on the internet.

I hope you enjoy the music as much as I did.

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