neighbourhoods foundation

In March 2023, the Neighbourhoods Foundation Charitable Trust was incorporated in New Zealand. This move represents our commitment to maintaining the Social Sensemaker as a free and open-source technology.

The Trusts objectives are to build and maintain our suite of tools for sense-making, for the creation of digital social spaces that are community and mission-driven.

In addition, the Trust hold our commitment to

• the participant ownership and control over their means of communication, information sharing, and record-keeping;
• the development of local systems of discoverability of content and services;
• enabling stewardship and enhancement of archives of local knowledge;
• community-centered auditing and validation of the provenance of data sets;
• facilitation and support of the use of the Social Sensemaker at no cost;
• the development of an ecosystem of compatible applications;
• and free educational opportunities for community members in New Zealand and virtually