Bank of Common Knowledge

Posted by Rebecca Eggleston on July 31, 2008

Here’s another example of some of the ideas we’ve been exploring with city leaders through our Remix and Creative Cities work.  This exemplifies ideas of connecting and tapping diverse knowledge as a starting point for individuals to contribute to community or public challenges. 

The Bank of Common Knowledge is an experiment to research social mechanics of collective production of contents, mutual education, and citizen participation.  “BCK is a workshop that looks for other ways to distribute and share practical knowledge.”

“The Bank of Common Knowledge is organized as an open source model of knowledge transfer, a laboratory for inventing and trying out new forms of production, education, organization and distribution.”

The next step that offers exciting opportunities for cities is how to turn knowledge sharing into self-organized action and problem-solving.