We already know the sustainable transport solutions to climate change, but politicians aren’t listening.
Transport Knowledge Wiki is a proposal to build an easily searchable resource of reports, reasearch and data to help campaigners make the case for positive change.
The wiki will provide instant acccess to our vast body of knowledge and an easy to use way for volunteers to add new information.
Why do this?
Organisations and their outputs are often ephemeral. Links rot and websites get updated with a loss of old but still useful material.
Here is an example of what an entry could look like for a report. The live URL is recorded as well as an archive URL that will still work if that one breaks.
Clicking Walking in keywords takes you to a list of resources with that keyword.
From there you can go to another report tagged with that keyword.
Keywords and categories make it searchable and link to similar reports, no matter who pubished them or when.
We will need volunteers
- Transport, enivironment and poicy news junkies to keep things up to date with the latest material
- People who know how wikis work so we get the best from the technology
- Librarians and archivists to help us organise things
- Historians (our starting point is the 1970s, possibly earlier)
- Later on we can encourage organisations to contribute directly to the wiki
We will need funding
- Small grant bid already submitted for start up costs
- Crowdfund and accept donations for ongoing costs
How can you get involved?
If you are interesting in getting involved use the button below to email.
If you would like to make a donation to the project we have an active GoFundMe.