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Overview
Keep Open Digital Knowledge is a mission to ensure digital knowledge remains accessible to everyone, everywhere. This donation page supports the Keep Open Digital Knowledge Initiative by sustaining open archives, open licenses, and open protocols that underpin thoughtful research, education, and collaboration. By contributing, you help maintain reliable hosting, ensure long term preservation, and empower learners and professionals to draw on trustworthy information without barriers.
In practical terms, your support fuels curating and moderating content, coordinating with educators, and funding infrastructure that keeps resources searchable, accessible, and discoverable. The project embraces openness, accountability, and inclusivity, so that a student in a remote region and a developer in a city classroom share the same access to knowledge.
Why Your Support Matters
Your generosity directly underwrites the work that makes digital knowledge open and durable. With the funds we raise, we invest in:
- Sustainable hosting and infrastructure to preserve digital collections over time.
- Open-source tooling and knowledge management systems that scale with community needs.
- Accessibility improvements, including inclusive design, screen-reader compatibility, and multilingual support.
- Quality assurance, peer review, and community governance to maintain trust and reliability.
- Outreach, education programs, and partnerships that broaden access and awareness.
How Donations Are Used
Transparency guides every step of the process. Donations are allocated to core pillars that sustain and grow open knowledge resources. A typical allocation includes development and maintenance, hosting and bandwidth, content moderation and curation, and community engagement initiatives. We also reserve funds for emergency preservation efforts and ongoing security improvements to protect public access to information.
We publish annual funding reports and maintain open metrics so supporters can see progress, milestones, and impact. Your contribution enables the ongoing work of librarians, researchers, and technologists who collaborate to keep digital knowledge available, verifiable, and useful for communities around the world.
Latest Updates
We share progress through concise updates that highlight milestones, new partnerships, and improvements to access. When available, these posts offer a window into how donations translate into tangible outcomes for learners and researchers.
Transparency & Trust
Open governance, clear reporting, and accessible metrics sit at the heart of this effort. We maintain public funding dashboards and maintain documentation that explains how every dollar is used. By supporting this project, you join a community that values accountability as much as mission. Every contribution is a vote for open access and for a more collaborative, informed world.
Support Options
Choose the donation method that works for you. Each option connects you to secure, privacy-conscious processing and aligns with the project’s standards for openness and stewardship.