E0 — Research Pending
The idea or hypothesis still requires evidence review.
EFFICIENT NATIONS GLOBAL LIBRARY
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of humanity.
Every day, valuable projects, research, ideas and lessons remain isolated in universities, organizations, communities and personal files.
Efficient Nations Global Library exists to preserve that knowledge, make it discoverable and help others build upon it.
A KNOWLEDGE COMMONS · IN DEVELOPMENT
An open, curated commons for useful knowledge about sustainability, quality of life, efficiency, resilience and human and institutional capacity. The internal publication pilot is active. External contribution workflows are being prepared.
EXPLORE LIBRARY
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Published knowledge curated by Efficient Nations. Drafts and internal documents remain private.
The first Efficient Nations Library records are being prepared.
Published records will appear here automatically. You can adjust your search or return as the collection grows.
Understanding Evidence Levels
Evidence level indicates the current strength of supporting evidence. It does not rate the importance or quality of an idea.
Read all evidence levels
E1 — Initial Evidence Identified
Relevant sources or initial evidence have been identified, but effectiveness has not been established.
E2 — Comparable Cases Identified
Documented comparable implementations have been found.
E3 — Measured Implementation Evidence
Measured results exist from one or more relevant implementations.
E4 — Replicated / Evaluated Evidence
More robust or repeated evidence exists across multiple contexts or evaluations.
Maturity describes the stage of implementation. Evidence describes supporting evidence. These are separate classifications.
Coming soon.
Current Library content is curated internally by Efficient Nations. External contribution workflows are being prepared; future submissions will be reviewed before publication. Public submissions and uploads are not open yet.
THE VALUE OF WHAT WE LEARN
A project does not need
to be perfect to be useful.
Its context, results, limitations, failures and lessons can help someone else make a better decision.
The Library is designed to preserve successful projects alongside research, evidence, tested approaches and incomplete results. Understanding what did not work can be as useful as understanding what did.
Useful knowledge comes from researchers, universities, professionals, governments, organizations, communities, students, technical experts and local experience. It is not limited to academic publication.
Evidence quality, provenance, limitations and maturity must remain visible. Publication will not constitute endorsement or certification that an approach works.
WHAT CAN BE CONTRIBUTED
Many forms of useful knowledge.
- Projects
- Implemented projects + results
- Research
- Academic papers
- Theses
- Case studies
- Methods & technologies
- Policy approaches
- Operational solutions
- Lessons & failures
Have something valuable that does not fit these categories? Future submissions may be reviewed individually.
WHAT BELONGS HERE
Three areas. Shared possibilities.
Quality of life
Knowledge and projects that improve the lives of people and communities.
Housing · Water · Food systems · Education · Urban health · Financial capability · Community development · Social inclusion · Essential services
Efficiency & capacity
Knowledge that helps people, organizations, cities and institutions use resources and capabilities more effectively.
Energy · Productivity · Infrastructure · Mobility · Circular economy · Institutional capacity · Governance · Appropriate technology · Resource efficiency
Planet & resilience
Knowledge that protects natural systems or strengthens the ability to respond to environmental change and risk.
Climate · Biodiversity · Pollution · Waste · Water · Energy · Fires · Flooding · Adaptation · Regeneration
Can this knowledge help people, communities or institutions improve quality of life, use resources more effectively, strengthen resilience or reduce environmental impact?
HOW CONTRIBUTION WILL WORK
From experience
to shared knowledge.
A planned process, not an active submission service.
- 01
Sign in
Create or access your future contributor profile.
- 02
Choose your contribution
Identify whether you are sharing a project, research, paper, thesis, case, method, technology, policy approach or lesson.
- 03
Identify authorship
Planned information includes contributor name, team lead, contributors, institution or university, and an optional ORCID iD.
ORCID is recommended for researchers and contributors who want their work connected to their professional research identity. It will not be mandatory for community groups or every contribution type. No ORCID integration is connected today.
- 04
Upload & describe
Future contributors will provide the material and essential context: What problem does it address, and where? What was done or proposed? What evidence supports it? What results exist? What did not work? What should someone know before applying it elsewhere?
- 05
Review
Contributions will be reviewed before publication to check that provenance, authorship, evidence, limitations and publication requirements are adequately represented.
Review will mean meeting publication and transparency standards. It will not certify effectiveness or replace academic peer review.
MATURITY & EVIDENCE
Be clear about what is known.
An idea, a case study and an evaluated intervention offer different kinds of evidence. Records distinguish proposals from implementation, evaluation and reported results.
Proposal
A direction or intervention proposed before implementation.
Implemented
Put into practice; implementation alone does not demonstrate effectiveness.
Evaluated
Examined using stated methods, evidence and limitations.
Results reported
Outcomes have been documented; reporting is not necessarily independent evaluation.
Maturity and evidence are distinct metadata. Neither is a guarantee of effectiveness.
WHY CONTRIBUTE
Your work should not disappear
when the project ends.
Share what you learned. Leave something others can build on.
- A lasting contribution record
- Authorship & attribution
- Discoverability
- Real-world reuse
- Professional traceability
- A record of results
- Future connections with people and institutions
These are the benefits the Library is being designed to support: useful work that remains accessible, attributable and reusable. For professional and academic contributors, optional ORCID identification may eventually strengthen authorship traceability.
UNIVERSITIES, COMMUNITIES & TEAMS
Shared work. Clear attribution.
The Library is designed for a professor leading a research team, students contributing as authors, a community documenting a local project, or an institution sharing a case or methodology.
Team lead
Professor, researcher or project lead.
Contributors
Students, researchers, professionals or community members.
Institution
University, organization, community or public institution.
Future contributions will preserve individual authorship and team attribution. This describes the intended model, not existing partnerships.
EN-CORE + THE LIBRARY
Private work.
A deliberate choice to share.
Current EN-Core projects are stored server-side and accessible to their authenticated owner. They are not published to the Library. San Esteban is a separate simulation that saves locally in your browser.
In the future, a project owner may choose to keep private or contribute to Efficient Nations Global Library. Contribution will be an explicit choice followed by review.
An unimplemented project may be contributed as a clearly labeled Proposal or another pre-implementation contribution. It will not be presented as a proven intervention.
When results exist, future Results & Learning may help document evidence, limitations, objections, adaptations and lessons for a reviewed contribution. These choices are explanatory only; no contribution workflow is active.
RESULTS & LEARNING · FUTURE CONNECTION
Return to the work.
Record what happened.
After a project, proposal, research effort or intervention has been used, the future Results & Learning capability will help document what happened. Its purpose is learning from experience, not project management.
- Expected results
- Observed results
- Budget reality
- Implementation problems
- Institutional feedback
- Community feedback
- Changes made
- Unexpected effects
- What worked
- What failed
- Lessons learned
- Next version / Phase 2 / Phase 3
These records may later improve a project, inform a new version and support higher-quality Library contributions. This capability is not implemented yet.
CURATION WITH CONTEXT
Preserve knowledge.
Make its limits visible.
The Library is a curated system for preserving and transferring useful projects, research, solutions, evidence, results and lessons that can help people and institutions solve real problems.
It is not a generic file repository, social network or unmoderated upload platform. It will not replace academic publishing or turn inclusion into automatic endorsement. An idea and an evaluated intervention must never be treated as equivalent evidence.