Knowledge Futures Group

The Knowledge Futures Group builds technology for the production, curation, and preservation of knowledge in service of the public good.

Programs

The battle over the control of knowledge is a defining struggle of our time. We imagine a future where the infrastructure to create, access, curate, and build upon knowledge is controlled by researchers, journalists, libraries, publishers, museums, and other organizations that serve the public's interest. The KFG is building this future through our programs by developing core infrastructure, advocating through writing and events, and providing opportunities for research and sustainable development.

Knowledge Ecosystems

We examine how knowledge ecosystems exist today, develop playbooks to improve them, and facilitate new knowledge life cycles accelerated through multi-institution collaboration.

Focus Areas:

Education, Economics, Justice, Inclusion

Community Publishing

We build infrastructure to enable community-driven publishing toward more thorough, trustworthy, and inclusive models for publishing platforms and tools.

Focus Areas:

Scholarship, Publishing Models, Trust

Universal Data

We research and develop tools for discovery, provenance, and interoperability of data, to ensure transparent and universal access to public knowledge.

Focus Areas:

Health, Disinformation, Democracy

Measuring Knowledge

We craft and deliver new analytics that aligns with the growth, learning, and empowerment afforded by modern knowledge ecosystems to redefine impact and success.

Focus Areas:

Impact, Analytics, Incentives

Products

PubPub

PubPub is an open authoring and publishing platform. It socializes the process of knowledge creation by integrating conversation, annotation, and versioning into short and long-form digital publication.

Primary Partner: The MIT Press

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Underlay

The Underlay is a free and open source system for structuring, storing, and aggregating open, distributed knowledge.

Visit: Underlay

The Commonplace

The Commonplace is a publication of the Knowledge Futures Group. It serves as a conversation and idea hub for mission-aligned individuals and organizations working to make knowledge open for the public good.

Visit: The Commonplace

Partners and Funders

The Knowledge Futures Group, founded as a partnership between the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab, is a nonprofit organization powered by academic, industry, and advocacy groups. Together we build and support products to make knowledge open and accessible to all.

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