Manifesto
Good information is a glue in societies open to change, capable of evolving and improving. Conversely, bad information acts like an acid on social relations, erodes trust, spreads suspicion and resentment, creating the ideal breeding ground for authoritarian regressions. As good information retreats and bad information gains ground, the damage penetrates deeply, becomes lasting and difficult to remedy. It concerns freedoms, rights, economic conditions, relationships between people, the quality and joy of life. Directly or indirectly, that damage affects us.
The journey taken so far allows us today to propose a method based on a set of conditions and values that are also commitments we want to share with those who wish to accompany us on the continuation of the journey.
Digital common goods
We treat data with the same care used in cultivating the plants of a precious garden so that it grows in variety and more and more people can enjoy it.
Community
We make available what we have done so far to enrich and transform it thanks to the economic contribution, ideas, and involvement of others, to find new, different, more effective and enjoyable ways.
Reliability
Information is good when it is reliable, and it is reliable when it is also verifiable. At the heart of our production process are data. Which are collected, processed, and interpreted to produce information, investigations, and analyses. The same data are published so that others can verify them, reuse them, and produce other information and interpretations.
Independence
There are no shares, no owners, no economic or political interests to protect. From an economic point of view, our sustainability is based on the donations we receive from people, to be able to realize and carry forward the projects we believe in.
Sustainability
The goal is not to make profits to distribute but to balance income and expenses to grow the projects and their ability to produce useful things in the interest of everyone.
Advertising
We generally do not like advertising, but above all, we want to avoid influence from advertisers and protect user data. You will not receive purchase recommendations from our channels.
Free Access
There are far too many barriers preventing access to education, culture, and information. We will not add others. Those who contribute to Openpolis's mission do so so that others can also freely benefit from the data, information, and useful things we can create.
Transparency
It is a conduct we demand be followed by those with power and responsibility as a guarantee against abuse, and therefore we practice it ourselves, going well beyond legal obligations. Anyone can easily find out what resources we can count on and how we use them.
Culture
Data is the raw material at the center of a gigantic process of concentration of power and wealth by tech multinationals and governments. Resources taken from people and communities that we instead want to treat and manage as common goods, capable of generating value for the community. A process of reappropriation and restitution that we want to build together, starting from the awareness of the importance that data holds in our lives.
Media
Openpolis is an authoritative and recognized source of information, used by institutions and media organizations with which we have collaborative relationships without any competition, because it is important that good information travels as much as possible to drive out the bad.