Knowledge is a
commons, not
a commodity.
Open knowledge infrastructure for civil society: many organisations, one searchable public library, every contribution attributed to its source.
The Knowledge Commons for Civil Society is shared infrastructure where nonprofits make their public-interest knowledge searchable, multilingual, and lasting. Eligible organisations can join free, choose what to share, and keep control of what remains private.
Why a commons?
Civil society produces knowledge the public needs: reports, testimony, methods, recordings, research, and field experience. Too much of it disappears when a project ends, a website changes, or funding stops.
The Commons gives that knowledge a longer life. Member organisations publish selected public content into one shared surface; it is transcribed, translated, indexed, and made searchable as a single library, with answers cited back to the organisation and source they came from.
What makes it worth joining
Reciprocity: you do not only deposit your work; you search everyone's. Permanence: public-interest knowledge stays findable after the funding cycle ends. Collective leverage: the sector becomes searchable and citable as one body of evidence.
Control stays with contributors
You decide what belongs in the open and what stays protected. You keep your own site, donations, attribution, and editorial control. Many archives, one commons - every voice kept whole.