Peng Ee Ooi outlines the unfulfilled needs that led to the creation of Associations Commons as a portal for associations in the Asia-Pacific region to share their perspectives, challenges, and solutions with one another. Western know-how and methodologies are often not easily translatable, for cultural or economic reasons, into Asian scenarios, whereas local associations have often developed their own solutions to the same problems, but previously found it difficult to share these with their peers. Associations Commons helps to shine the spotlight on such insights from China, Japan and South East Asia.
