This convention has the following main objectives:
- to articulate and make globally visible which knowledge is in the public domain;
- to ensure globally a maximal provision of the content commons on which this knowledge builds, as explained at knowledge conversion;
- to enact services to localize content commons as part of projects and programmes aiming for sustainable development and trust in their communication plans.
The Convention on Knowledge Commons will become an international contractual instrument through which the signatories publicly commit to content publishing practices that are conducive for knowledge conversion by stakeholders, and respect the inviolability of the content commons.
The convention will motivate both public and private sector actors, as listed at Actor Atlas, to jointly contribute to content commons published via wikis, such as those introduced at systematized content commons.
Specific background and embedding information for this wiki is provided at http://www.wikiworx.info/global-agreement
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Forum also for Non-member Input
Non members can express their viewpoints on the draft convention by using the Forum, and they can see how their inputs influence the articles of the draft convention.
Alongside this wiki which focusses on understanding and, where possible improving, the texts of the agreements, there is a linkedin group Convention on Knowledge Commons where relevant news is bundled, and its pertinence to the convention draft texts is commented upon.
Any linkedin member can join the Convention on Knowledge Commons.
