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The commons are the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately. Commons can also be understood as natural resources that groups of people (communities, user groups) manage for individual and collective benefit. Characteristically, this involves a variety of informal norms and values (social practice) employed for a governance mechanism. Commons can be also defined as a social practice of governing a resource not by state or market but by a community of users that self-governs the resource through institutions that it creates . (Wikipedia and to be updated)

"Catalysis"

"Catalysis" - the effect caused by a change agent, a 'catalyst'

World Heritage, through the international network of heritage sites, communities, people and organisations (stakeholders), lends itself as a unique domain and catalyst launching a commons oriented community of practice. 

Through World Heritage Catalysis and WHETS everyone has the potential to become a change agent - a catalyst - contributing positive transformative change.

ICT 4 the commons

The global development agenda (2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development) looks to the potential in information and communication technology (ICT) and global interconnectedness for accelerating human progress through development of knowledge societies. Building on ICT4D - the application of ICTs to achieve social, economic and political development, with a particular emphasis on helping poor and marginalized people and communities. United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ITU) states under its ICT4SDG initiative that ICTs will be absolutely crucial to achieve towards the SDGs.Building on ICT4D - the application of ICTs to achieve social, economic and political development, with a particular emphasis on helping poor and marginalized people and communities.

Seeking to contribute towards a commons based transition through use of commons convergent technologies, World Heritage Catalysis community of practice will be transparent in its use of both open as well as proprietary technologies.

Copyrights & fairs

This section will address user rights applied through World Heritage Catalysis and WHETS (copyright, creative commons, copyfair, copyleft, copyfarleft)

Commons Based Reciprocity Licenses (CBRLs or “CopyFair” licenses) are specifically designed to find a middle ground between the full-sharing Copyleft licenses, such as the General Public licenses, the Non-Commercial licenses, such as those offered by Creative Commons, and the copyright regime which privatises knowledge. (https://commonstransition.org/commons-based-reciprocity-licenses/)