Open knowledge

International, national, and local organisations, citizens from different countries, communities and collectives, projects with innovative proposals, ancestral and digital technologies, replicable prototypes, free licences. All of it in just one model. A method that makes the lABIC a referent in innovation and people´s participation, a model that brings the communities to the international cooperation field, not only as recipients of resources but as creators of their own solutions.

The five principles that guide the LABIC are: open knowledge, attainable solutions, experimentation, collaboration, and caregiving.

We consider that the main priority in civic innovation, is to share the results universally and free of cost, be it through open repositories9 or through free licences10. In the lABIC, knowledge is a common asset that must be democratised and

(9) A repository is a digital file that contains comprehensive information that can be accessed by anyone without any restrictions. (10) The open licenses are permitted by the authors who waived their legal rights under certain conditions so that user can use or distribute their copyright materials. For example, Creative Commons o GPl.