[4] To prevent the misuse of software created by the movement, Stallman founded the GNU General Public License.
[5] Mayo Fuster Morell proposed a definition of digital commons as "information and knowledge resources that are collectively created and owned or shared between or among a community and that tend to be non-exclusive, that is, be (generally freely) available to third parties.
[7] Wikis are a huge contribution to the digital commons, serving information while allowing members of the community to create and edit content.
The digital strategy makes it clear that ‘collaborative working methods will be the norm within the Commission’s IT community to foster the sharing of code, data and solutions’.
The principles and actions of the new open-source strategy will make it easier to obtain permission to share code with the outside world.
Both definitions of Open Data and Commons revolve around the concept of shared resources with a low barrier to access.
Farmers can freely access, modify, and redistribute information, empowering them with customizable agricultural technologies and solutions suited to their unique contexts.
Through its inclusive approach to agricultural innovation, the movement seeks to create a more equitable and sustainable future for farmers and communities worldwide.
The traditional under-representation of women and the lack of gender diversity in the field of STEM and in the programmer culture is also present in digital commons-based initiatives like open science[19] and open-source-software projects like Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap.
[21] There are different initiatives trying to face these challenges and bridging this gap by providing and creating empowering spaces where women and non-binary persons can experiment, exchange and learn with and from each other.
Besides closing the gender gap among participants and creating safe spaces for female and non-binary persons, some projects additionally want to visualize the under-representation and lack of gender-related topics in the movements and in the outcome of their work.
The collective Geochicas for example is engaged in the OpenStreetMap community looking on maps through a feminist lens and visualize data linked to gender and feminism.
[22] In the same years Geochicas created visibility campaigns on Twitter under the hashtag "#MujeresMapeandoElMundo"[23] and the “International Survey on Gender Representation”.
[24] In 2018 they created a virtual map by analyzing data from OpenStreetMap to rise awareness of the lack of representation of women's names on the streets of cities in Latin America and Spain.