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Data Sovereignty
Every organization in the Commonweave directory was ingested from a public source -- a government charity register, a cooperative federation directory, Wikidata, or a similar open dataset. We do not contact organizations before listing them.
If your organization is listed and you want to:
- Remove your listing -- open a GitHub issue using the Org Request template and select "Remove." We will mark your org as opted-out and it will disappear from all exports within one business day.
- Correct information -- same template, select "Correct." Send us what is wrong and what is right.
- Request that your location not be shown on the map -- select "Obscure location." We will replace your precise coordinates with the city centroid (roughly 1km accuracy) so the map still shows what city you serve but not your exact address.
We process requests within 48 hours. We do not require proof of affiliation -- if you say it is your organization, we believe you.
We recognize that being listed in a public directory can be dangerous for some organizations -- LGBTQ+ groups in hostile environments, undocumented immigrant support networks, abortion funds in restrictive states, indigenous land rights organizations operating near extractive industries.
For organizations in countries rated "Not Free" by Freedom House (2024), if the organization's tags or description include terms like lgbtq, abortion, undocumented, or indigenous rights, we apply coordinate obscuring automatically. The organization still appears in the directory and on the map, but at city-centroid precision only.
If your organization needs additional protection not covered here, use the request form above and describe what you need.
For each organization we store: name, description, website, email (if public), phone (if public), city, country, and alignment score. We do not store: names of individuals, private contact information, internal membership lists, or anything not in the original public source.
Currently: one person (Simon Paige). We acknowledge this is a single point of failure and a governance gap. We are working toward a community governance structure where organizations in the directory, regional experts, and civil-society representatives have meaningful input into inclusion criteria, scoring methodology, and dispute resolution.
If you want to be involved in governance, open a GitHub issue labeled "governance" or email hello@commonweave.org.
The alignment score (-10 to +10) is not a judgment of an organization's worth. It is a signal generated by keyword matching and source trust levels to help filter a database of 168,000+ organizations down to those most likely to be practicing cooperative, mutual, or commons-oriented approaches.
The score is English-biased. Organizations that describe themselves in Arabic, Swahili, Quechua, or another language may score lower than equivalent English-language organizations. We are actively working to expand our multilingual term lists (see data/i18n_terms.py).
A low score does not mean an organization is excluded -- organizations in countries with fewer than 50 total entries are exempt from the score cutline (scarcity protection), and human auditors can override the score.
The scoring code is public: data/phase2_filter.py. The curated name list is at data/known_aligned.csv. Both accept community contributions.