Market:Observatory/Potential-Partners
This observatory is under construction and not yet active. It is part of the WikiDeal observatories: citizen-run, participatory and volunteer-based.
The Potential Partners observatory is intended to watch organizations with which WikiDeal could cooperate rather than compete: foundations, networks, cooperatives and platforms bringing complementary strengths. A first list of potential partners already exists in the Competition & Cooperation observatory; this observatory would extend and maintain it, and prepare concrete cooperation proposals.
Commons-based communities
A first family of potential partners consists of commons-based communities, watched since the earlier open observatories:
- Wikimedia Foundation: encyclopedia commons
- Mozilla Foundation: open web
- OpenStreetMap Foundation: geographic commons
- Debian Project: free software distribution
- P2P Foundation: research on commons-based peer production
- Platform cooperatives: cooperative alternatives to extractive platforms
See also: All observatories · Co-opetition