Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model

Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on it most.

Funding the Commons | Public Goods Funding

We convene researchers, builders, and institutions to develop the funding mechanisms, governance systems, and coordination tools that public goods need in an age of AI.

Public AI Network

A coalition building AI as public infrastructure.

Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power

[This document serves as a memo for investors]

SCA - News and views from across our networks

Over the last few years, SCVO has been engaging with organisations across the voluntary sector to collect evidence on the issues and barriers faced around access to funding. The evidence collected clearly demonstrates the urgent need for Fair Funding. We, along with many of our intermediary network members have contributed to this work, providing case studies relating to Government priorities as well as sector wide themes, illustrating why implementing Fair Funding is an investment in Scotland’s essential voluntary sector for a sustainable future.

PARA

Civic social infrastructure for communities, governance, and public participation.

Home

Solidarity Infrastructures is a class that brings together creative practitioners from respective communities to investigate, strategize, upskill, and dream toward alternative socio-technological systems.

How We're Funded

IOI is supported through a mix of philanthropic support and financial commitments from institutions, consortia-based organizations, and more. As a sustainability focused not-for-profit initiative, we are keenly aware of the strains that exist on the current funding landscape for open infrastructure non-profits. We are dedicated at IOI to exploring revenue

Open Systems Foundation

Building open infrastructure for a thriving planet.

Yes we can! Why 2026 will be the Year for the UK to Accelerate Infrastructure Delivery

At times it seems that for the better part of the last decade, the UK infrastructure sector has lived in a state of perpetual delivery rehearsal – debating reforms, publishing strategy papers, and navigating post-pandemic inflation. But as we enter 2026, our collective resolve must stiffen.