{"id":83676,"key":"Open_know-how","title":"Open know-how","latest":{"id":1127305,"timestamp":"2024-09-19T18:23:09Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"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.\n\nOpen know-how refers to the combination of two concepts:\n\n* [[Open]], in relation to the use of open licenses, and\n* Know-How, which relates to procedural knowledge, or knowing how to do things.\n\nThe concept refers to the use of open licenses for the documentation of procedural knowledge.\n\n==== How Open Know-How Supports Sustainable Development ====\n\nBy 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.\n\n==== Open know-how on Appropedia ====\n\nAppropedia engages in the documentation of open know-how that relates to learning how to do things,<ref name=\"know-how\">Bengson, John, and Marc A. Moffett, eds. Knowing how: Essays on knowledge, mind, and action. Oxford University Press, 2011.</ref> which makes us different from and Encyclopedia. See [[Appropedia is different from Wikipedia|Appropedia is different from Wikipedia]].\n\n==== Benefits of Open Know-How ====\n\nThere are several benefits to sharing knowledge through Open Know-How:\n\n* Open Know-How empowers communities to solve their own problems by giving them access to knowledge and resources that are typically hard to obtain.\n* 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.\n\n==== References ====\n\n<references />\n\n{{Page data}}"}