Projects - Open knowledge

The Uncensored Library

Censored articles were republished in books within Minecraft, giving readers the chance to inform themselves about the real political situation in their countries and learn the importance of press freedom.

alphaXiv

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Students at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers

Invest in Open

EveryCRSReport.com

Washington, DC

We’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already available to the well-connected — we’re making them available to everyone for free.

The Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard Law School Library

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Strengthening society’s connection to knowledge by advancing our access to and understanding of the data that shapes AI.

libraries

Wiki Education

Chico, California

Wiki Education engages students and academics to improve Wikipedia

AMBER

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

Amber is a tool for blogs & websites to keep linked content accessible

extensions

EveryDoor

EveryDoor is an OpenStreetMap editor for POIs and entrances.

SketchMapTool

The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge. The tool has a variety of applications. For example, do you want to work together with people in a community to map their experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood in a paper-based format, but still be able to quickly analyse the results digitally? Then, the Sketch Map Tool is exactly what you need!

StreetComplete

This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.

Field Tasking Manager (FieldTM)

FIeldTM allows for coordinating field mapping activities in Open Mapping campaigns. While there are existing field mapping applications, there is a lack of efficient tools to coordinate these activities. The FMTM builds on the HOT Tasking Manager and other mapping applications to provide a more streamlined and organized process for completing field mapping tasks.

BudLib

Calgary, AB, Canada

BudLib is an open-source Library Management System, built and designed from ground up, primarily for smaller and independent schools.

Public Domain Works Search Engine

We created a search engine for public domain works that can be adapted to work in each country as the legislation changes according to the nationality of the author of the work.

Open knowledge

Common Crawl

Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.

Digital Public Library of America

Chicago, IL

Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

Open knowledge

Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN)

Alexandria, VA

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

United States (federal government)

Measurement Lab

Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.

arXiv.org

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

WikiProject Medicine

WP:MED as it is known aims to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles.

Open knowledge

Wikidata search tool for Venezuelan works in public domain

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

An automated query in Wikidata of all existing profiles of Venezuelan authors, scientists and creators whose works are in the public domain according to national and international laws by virtue of the time elapsed since their death.

Open knowledge

OA.Works

Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.

vc-ed (Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force)

The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials

Quality education

World Health Organization (WHO) Academy

Lyon

Now under development, the Academy will offer online and in-person courses to millions of health workers and others around the world. 

LearnCard

What if we worked together to enable learner sovereignty, mobility and agency?

Learning Economy Foundation

A Steward of the Internet of Education, Web3, Blockchain, Digital Wallets, Crypto, DOAs, and Verifiable Credentials for Learning

Quality education

Open knowledge

Open Knowledge Foundation France

La Cantine - 12 Galerie Montmartre 75002 Paris

Nous sommes l’Open Knowledge Foundation France, un groupe local de l’Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF), créé en décembre 2012.

culture

Open knowledge

Alliance For Taxpayer Access

21 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 US

The Alliance for Taxpayer Access works to ensure that the published results of research funded with public dollars are made available to the American public, for free, online, as soon as possible.

Open knowledge

Public Knowledge

Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works.

Open knowledge

Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda

Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda is a team of self-motivated individuals who improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally. They also invested in projects that sensitize and train communities about Wikipedia.

Wikimedians of the Caribbean User Group

The Caribbean

The Wikimedians of the Caribbean Usergroup is a Wikimedia user group focused on the peoples of the Caribbean and the Caribbean Diaspora, bringing together cultures and languages, and also the communities with their diasporas.

diaspora

The Turing Way: Community-led guides for data science and open research

The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UK

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work.

guides
books

Social Science One

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Social Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.