Knowledge Keeper
Document community and indigenous knowledge with care: who shared it, what it is, how it is passed on, and what the knowledge holder has agreed can be done with it.
About Knowledge KeeperRFI Digital Commons
Practical tools for knowledge, communities and relational futures.
Free, offline-capable and privacy-respecting tools from Relational Futures Institute, designed for researchers, communities and practitioners working with knowledge, systems, field research and regenerative futures.
Our promise
Your working data stays on your device by default. RFI does not automatically receive your project records.
The tools
Built one at a time, carefully.
Each tool connects to RFI’s work on community knowledge, relational thinking and ethical research. We release a tool only when it has been tested and reviewed.
Systems Canvas
Map a challenge, the people and institutions involved, the relationships between them and where change might begin.
About Systems CanvasFieldKit
A lightweight offline companion for ethical fieldwork: research questions, a consent log, field notes and an evidence register.
About FieldKitHow the tools work
Principles we build to.
Free to use
The tools are free. Any contribution is voluntary and never required to use, install or export.
Works offline
Once opened or installed from this website, the tools keep working without an internet connection.
Your data stays with you
What you enter stays in your browser on your device. RFI does not automatically receive your project records.
Ethics by design
Consent, access restrictions and the rights of knowledge holders and communities are part of how the tools work, not an afterthought.
Light and accessible
Designed for modest devices and low bandwidth, with clear labels, keyboard access and readable contrast.
Only from this website
The tools are available only from relationalfuturesinstitute.org. There are no app-store versions and no copies hosted elsewhere.