BrainCommons is part of the Frontiers of Openness area of work by the Open Knowledge Foundation.
We are examining how openness in hardware, software, data and governance can strengthen existing protections, foster innovation, enable public oversight and preserve individual autonomy in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). The decisions made today about how these technologies are designed, governed and deployed will influence whether they become open tools that expand human agency or closed infrastructures that concentrate power over our cognitive lives.