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-Here and there we see many initiatives promoting the Commons in different fields (open web, OER, free culture, or seeds). However, only a few have reached critical mass and are well-known by various communities, while the majority are still in their corner, ignored by the mainstream.  Move Commons (MC) is a crazy idea which aims at boostinbg the visibility and diffusion of such initiatives, and to build a network among related initiatives/collectives across the world, allowing mutual discovery.  We think it can facilitate them reaching critical mass.  Besides, newcomers could easily understand the collective approach in their website, and/or discover collectives matching their field/location/interests in [http://movecommons.org movecommons.org].
+Here and there we see many initiatives promoting the Commons in different fields (open web, OER, free culture, or seeds). However, only a few have reached critical mass and are well-known by various communities, while the majority are still in their corner, ignored by the mainstream.  Move Commons (MC) is a crazy idea which aims at boosting the visibility and diffusion of such initiatives, and to build a network among related initiatives/collectives across the world, allowing mutual discovery.  We think it can facilitate them reaching critical mass.  Besides, newcomers could easily understand the collective approach in their website, and/or discover collectives matching their field/location/interests in [http://movecommons.org movecommons.org].
 MC follows the same mechanics that Creative Commons (CC) uses for cultural works: we provide a user-friendly, bottom-up, labelling system for each collective/initiative, with four meaningful icons, together with a complementary set of additional tags to provide further classification (field, geographical location...).  We provide a semantic layer on top of this labelling mechanism in order to allow searches such as: «which initiatives exist in Beirut that are a grassroots organisation, non-profit, delivering Creative Commons content, related to "alternative education" and "teen-agers"» (think of your favorite principles, keywords and places).