The Powys Food Map is a Welsh, community-built map showing where food is grown, shared, sold, and supported across Powys, made with the wonderful co-op Cultivate.

Shared knowledge makes supporting local possible. www.cultivate.uk.com/bwyd-powys-f...

DEADLINE UPDATE! The deadline to apply for this remote and flexible full stack dev job with us is Thursday 15 Jan at 10am UK time 💚

We just sent out our last newsletter of 2025. Highlights include...

💻 We’re hiring a part-time full stack developer (21 hrs/week): deadline 10 Jan 2026

🗺 The Co-operative World Map just passed 84,000 co-ops, with major new data added

And more.. ✉️ subscribe here: digitalcommons.coop/contact/

We’ve been working on a big update to the Co-operative World Map this month 🌍

It’s built with our tool Mykomaps & will soon show >84,000 co-ops worldwide, giving a much clearer picture of the scale and diversity of the global co-op movement.

If your co-op isn’t on it yet, get in touch!

We just sent out our last newsletter of 2025. Here's a preview...

💻 We’re hiring a part-time full stack developer (21 hrs/week): deadline 10 Jan 2026

🗺 The Co-operative World Map just passed 84,000 co-ops, with major new data added

And more...

Subscribe here: digitalcommons.coop/contact/

💻 We’re hiring a Full Stack Developer!

This is a fully remote, flexible role (~3 days / 21 h/week). You'll be contributing to the delivery pipeline across our open source tools.

Come help make the digital commons a reality!

🔗 👉 for more info + application form: digitalcommons.coop/we-are-recru...

🌱 The Powys Food Map is live!

Built with Mykomaps + launched by the coop Cultivate.

It brings together farms, food projects, hubs + community groups across Powys, Wales so people can actually see their local food system in one place.

Take a look 👇
www.cultivate.uk.com/bwyd-powys-f...

our november newsletter just dropped 💌

open land data, good food maps, & a reflection on how AI could serve the commons 👀

sign up so you don’t miss the next one 👉 digitalcommons.coop/newsletter

There’s a move at the Land Registry to make land data more open.. but there’s still a way to go.

Currently vital data for land justice is behind a huge paywall (>£20k per year).

There should be a license that allows civic access to this data.

Subscribe to learn more digitalcommons.coop/contact/

🌱 Two NEW features just dropped in Land Explorer 👇

1. Unregistered land: You can now see all unregistered land in your area.

2. Colour-coding: The colour-coding in each ownership level has been improved, so it’s way easier to tell them apart.

Check the updates our here: landexplorer.coop

100s of groups use Land Explorer to uncover who owns the land around them & improve their communities.

Community groups & campaigners should not be priced out of this data.

Here are our recommendations to the Land Registry 👇

digitalcommons.coop/community-ac...

"Make ownership of large landholdings public"

Great report from the @digitalcommons.bsky.social with key recommendation that HM Land Registry should make the ownership of landholdings above a certain area threshold publicly available:

digitalcommons.coop/content/file...

Last week the Digital Commons team (minus the wonderful Lynne) met in Birmingham for our away day 🌱

It gave us a chance to step back and plan what’s next for our tools and partnerships and to reconnect on what drives our work. 👇

Who owns land is one of the most opaque & important questions in the UK today.

Communities cannot tackle the housing crises, respond to environmental changes, or protect local green spaces w/o this info.

That’s why we built a tool that makes it simple to see who owns what.

👉 landexplorer.coop

Hello! We’re Digital Commons Co-op. We build tech for social change.

We’ve built:

🌱 Land Explorer: a tool for finding & evaluating land for community projects landexplorer.coop

📍 Mykomaps: a platform for connecting & collaborating with co-ops worldwide digitalcommons.coop/mykomaps/

What happens when you make Land Ownership data available, for free, to community action groups?

That's what Land Explorer does, and here's how the first 18 months has gone:

digitalcommons.coop/community-ac...