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Overview
Open Knowledge is a community-driven effort to sustain and advance Creative Commons and open licenses that power education, research, and culture. By clarifying licensing, ensuring attribution, and promoting open standards, this initiative helps creators and educators share work with confidence. The project relies on the generosity of supporters to maintain licensing infrastructure, preserve license metadata, and keep open knowledge accessible worldwide.
With your support, we can fund licensing stewardship, archive essential license data, and build tooling that makes open knowledge more usable. Donations support translation, accessibility, and long‑term preservation of open materials, ensuring the work remains available for future generations.
Why Your Support Matters
For Open Knowledge, your support matters because it sustains a global network that makes licensing simpler and more reliable for everyone. The impact goes beyond a single project; it helps create a cultural norm where sharing and attribution are the default, not the exception.
- Sustain open licenses across education and research to preserve access for students, teachers, and independent researchers.
- Enable translations and accessibility so knowledge can be used by non‑English speakers and people with diverse needs.
- Strengthen governance and transparency through open metrics, roadmaps, and public reporting.
- Reduce friction for creators who want to license their work under open terms while receiving fair attribution.
- Invest in open tooling and hosting to keep services reliable and scalable.
How Donations Are Used
Open Knowledge commits to clear, accountable use of all contributions. Donations are distributed toward core areas that sustain licensing ecosystems, infrastructure, and community work.
- Development and licensing stewardship 30%
- Hosting infrastructure and data backups 25%
- Documentation translation and accessibility improvements 15%
- Outreach, governance, and transparency initiatives 15%
- Multilingual expansion and auditing processes 15%
These allocations are designed to move Open Knowledge forward while maintaining stability. A balanced approach ensures reliability and continuous momentum for open licensing initiatives.
Community Voices
The Open Knowledge community believes that accessible licensing strengthens collaboration across campuses, labs, and classrooms. Here are a couple of perspectives from supporters and contributors.
Open Knowledge has shown that licensing clarity can empower classrooms and creators around the world.
Through open standards, we can collaborate across borders, knowing our work remains freely usable with attribution.
Transparency And Trust
Open Knowledge maintains a transparent funding ledger, public roadmaps, and annual reports to ensure accountability for every contribution. Public metrics, governance decisions, and audits are available to supporters and participants alike.
- Public funding ledger and open budget summaries
- Open roadmap with milestones and timelines
- Regular governance updates and decision logs
- Independent audits and verification of spending where applicable
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