A commons is a practice of care.
Keep the knowledge
in people's hands.
People need ways to understand, correct, carry and maintain the resources they use. Start with portable records and a group that agrees how to care for them.
Take the evidence with you.
The international divestment network, finance ledger and sources are ordinary JSON. Read them independently of the interface, keep them with your group's research, and use them to make a different view.
This edition runs on Cloudflare. Portable exports reduce dependence on that host; they do not make the running website decentralized or anonymous.
Plan the social infrastructure
Who maintains it?
Who gets a say?
A copy of a dataset is not yet a community archive. Agree on consent, access, correction, care work and the right to leave before collecting more information.
These checks stay in this open page. Download them to keep or share them.
Make a contribution someone can review
Add a record.
Show your reasoning.
Use this worksheet for a missing country, a procurement record, a correction or a community translation. A precise, limited claim is more useful than an unsupported connecting line.
The form creates a file on your device. It does not send or publish your contribution. Bring the file and original source to your group's review process.
Choose an open research question ↗Compare a static copy, community hosting and federated tools by real maintenance capacity.
Collective governanceWrite decision rules, a correction process and a budget for the people doing the work.
Participation & accessMake room for different languages, disabilities, schedules and levels of technical confidence.