On site
Edinburgh Tool Library
A community-run and largely volunteer-operated tool library that lends tools, teaches repair and practical skills, and supports local community projects.
2 public locations
Commonworld
Commonworld catalog
All entries are distributed alphabetically by stable CommonProject ID. Each page contains at most 24 entries.
On site
Ekuri Community Forest
A forest collectively owned and managed by the Old and New Ekuri communities in Nigeria's Cross River State, with rules linking conservation, sustainable use and local infrastructure.
1 public location
Current operating status has not been verified recently. Sources reviewed on 2026-07-19; priority re-review 2026-08-19.
Digital · Cooperation and Self-Organization › Community Governance and Cooperatives
Enspiral
A collaborative network originating in Aotearoa New Zealand that develops community-oriented forms of enterprise, shared resources and openly documented tools for decentralized collaboration.
Location-independent digital presence
On site · Digital · Provision, Land and Ecology › Seeds, Food and Agriculture
Ethiopian Community Seed Bank Network
A nationwide network of community-run seed banks that connects farmer-maintained varieties, organizes exchange of experience and strengthens farmers’ authority over seed diversity.
1 public location
Commons
Federation of Community Forestry Users Nepal
A nationwide federation of community forest user groups in Nepal that strengthens local use rights, democratic self-organization, sustainable forest management, knowledge exchange and members' participation in policy.
1 hidden location
Digital · Provision, Land and Ecology › Land, Urban Green and Ecology
Fiji Locally Managed Marine Area Network (FLMMA)
A Fiji-wide support network for locally managed marine areas in which communities use customary and collectively agreed rules, local monitoring and shared stewardship to manage inshore fisheries and marine habitats.
1 hidden location
On site
Fordhall Organic Farm
A community-owned organic farm in Shropshire whose land is held by a charitable community benefit society with thousands of shareholders and secured for ecological farming, education, public nature access and social programmes.
1 public location
Digital · Communication and Networks › Community Networks
Freifunk
A non-commercial initiative for free, community-built communication networks and open digital infrastructure.
Location-independent digital presence
On site · Digital · Communication and Networks › Community Networks
Freifunk Hamburg
A local Freifunk community that operates a community-supported digital network in Hamburg and connects participation, open infrastructure and free communication.
1 public location · 1 hidden location
Commons
FUCVAM
Uruguay's federation of mutual-aid housing cooperatives combines collective land ownership, democratic self-management and mutual aid in building and maintaining housing.
2 hidden locations
Digital · Cooperation and Self-Organization › Civic Tech and Self-Organization
g0v
An open civic-tech community from Taiwan that works collaboratively on public problems and publishes results, source code and documentation as freely accessible digital commons.
Location-independent digital presence
Digital · Software, Tools and Production › Data and Software Bridge
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
A globally federated biodiversity data infrastructure in which participating countries, organizations, nodes and data publishers jointly provide data, standards and technical services for open biodiversity access and coordinate them through formal governance bodies.
Location-independent digital presence
On site
Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust
A resident-led community land trust in Liverpool that secures permanently affordable housing, community spaces, greening and local economic activity in the neighbourhood.
1 public location
Digital · Provision, Land and Ecology › Water and Irrigation
Great Lakes Commons
An open bioregional network that treats the Great Lakes as a living commons and seeks to strengthen community and Indigenous governance, shared responsibility and long-term water stewardship across political borders.
1 hidden location
Digital · Cooperation and Self-Organization › Community Governance and Cooperatives
Green Coop
A member-led federation of 16 consumer cooperatives in Japan in which about 432,000 member households jointly develop and use supply, social-support, environmental and mutual-aid infrastructures; participation and co-governance are membership-bound.
1 hidden location
On site · Digital · Communication and Networks › Community Networks
guifi.net
An open, free and neutral telecommunications network whose infrastructure is built and used collectively as a commons and can be developed further by different participants on equal terms.
1 public location · 1 hidden location
On site · Digital · Provision, Land and Ecology › Energy Cooperatives
Hepburn Energy
A member-owned energy cooperative in Australia's Hepburn Shire that operates community wind power and continues to develop its local generation capacity.
1 public location
On site
Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust
The Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust owns and manages the island for its residents; four directors elected by the Residents’ Association shape decisions on land, housing, infrastructure, natural heritage and the local electricity grid.
1 public location
On site
Kawawana
APCRM and residents from eight villages in central Casamance protect local fish stocks through colour-coded use zones, fishing restrictions, monitoring and patrols under coastal management rights devolved in 2010.
1 public location
Current operating status has not been verified recently. Sources reviewed on 2026-08-04; priority re-review 2026-09-04.
On site
Kibera Public Space Project
A growing network of public spaces co-designed and operated with resident groups in Kibera, linking flood resilience, basic services, gathering places and local economic use.
1 public location
On site · Digital · Provision, Land and Ecology › Energy Cooperatives
Kobulu Community Micro Hydro
A community-managed micro-hydropower system in Kampung Buayan, Sabah, whose local committee organizes consumption tariffs, operator pay, spare parts and future repairs.
1 public location
Digital · Provision, Land and Ecology › Water and Irrigation
National Union of Water Users’ Associations of the Kyrgyz Republic
A national union in Kyrgyzstan that supports community-based water users’ associations which organize water users, collectively maintain on-farm irrigation systems, coordinate joint action and represent members’ water-management interests.
1 hidden location
Digital · Cooperation and Self-Organization › Community Governance and Cooperatives
l’Asilo
A public cultural common in Naples whose rooms, artistic production facilities and urban garden are self-governed by an open community through assemblies, thematic working groups and a shared civic-use declaration.
1 hidden location
Current operating status has not been verified recently. Sources reviewed on 2026-08-13; priority re-review 2026-09-15.
Digital · Provision, Land and Ecology › Land, Urban Green and Ecology
Lebanon Hima Network
A Lebanese network of Hima sites in which municipalities and local communities establish and steward natural-resource areas through municipal decisions, community guardianship and locally rooted conservation and use rules.
1 hidden location