Open know-how

Open Know-How is a global initiative that promotes the sharing of designs, instructions, and knowledge to solve real-world problems. The idea behind Open Know-How is to provide free, open-source resources that can be used by anyone to create sustainable solutions. From agriculture to renewable energy, open-source knowledge helps empower communities to address their own challenges.

Open know-how refers to the combination of two concepts:

• Open, in relation to the use of open licenses, and
• Know-How, which relates to procedural knowledge, or knowing how to do things.

The concept refers to the use of open licenses for the documentation of procedural knowledge.

By making knowledge freely available, Open Know-How encourages innovation and resourcefulness. People in underserved areas can access technical knowledge to create solutions tailored to their specific needs, whether it's building a simple wind turbine or creating a community garden.

Appropedia engages in the documentation of open know-how that relates to learning how to do things,^[1] which makes us different from and Encyclopedia. See Appropedia is different from Wikipedia.

There are several benefits to sharing knowledge through Open Know-How:

• Open Know-How empowers communities to solve their own problems by giving them access to knowledge and resources that are typically hard to obtain.
• Open-source projects encourage collaboration between individuals and organizations across the globe. This collective effort helps improve the quality and reach of open-source designs.