YouTube and Community Knowledge

YouTube brings revolution in the era of community knowledge. Last twenty years, common people come forward with their own videos and upload at YouTube platform. Millions of videos on different topics in different language have created a public knowledge bank which define crowdsourcing of knowledge newly. In pre YouTube era, community knowledge which is basically produce collectively in local level and never being documented. Now people make their own small videos and upload them using local languages. If we search with cooking recipes, we explore marvelous indigenous knowledge. From cooking to craft making, lots of local level community knowledge which are never identified, recognized  and documented nowadays documented by the people of the people for the people. YouTube platform become an example of crowdsourcing of knowledge. YouTube give voice to voiceless. Women are very much participated as YouTuber and open their age old knowledge bank which have been stored by many generations but never recognized by patriarchal society. The blue-collar workers get a scope to share their professional skill specially our craftsmen. The comment section transform YouTube an interactive knowledge platform also.
YouTube also provide a platform for researchers, librarians to develop community knowledge bank with copyright protection. YouTube is platform for community knowledge by crowdsourcing.