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Truth Library: A Collective Mission to Restore Trust in Knowledge
- Laura Degiovanni ䷼ | CEO TiiQu & Founder QuTii Foundation
- 4 days ago
- 7 min read
This article gathers the founding philosophy, roadmap, and purpose behind Truth Library, and serves as a guide for everyone joining or supporting our crowdfunding campaign. It is a space to understand not only what we are building, but why it matters — and how our community is shaping a new, truth-first infrastructure for climate knowledge, sustainability, and every domain where misinformation harms society.
A Message From the Founder
Hi, I’m Laura Degiovanni, founder of TiiQu.
I am honoured to lead a volunteering-first network of engineers, scientists, and innovators committed to one mission: delivering truthful, unbiased knowledge to everyone.
More than 120 contributors have helped, shaping this project over the last 18 months — bringing expertise spanning AI, engineering, data science, research, and sustainability. It is thanks to this dynamic community that today we are releasing a game-changing knowledge infrastructure.
We live in an era where information is abundant — yet trust is collapsing.AI accelerates the speed of content creation, but not its accuracy. Media ecosystems amplify hype, not verification. Institutions struggle to maintain the authority they once had.
Truth Library was born as an answer to this crisis.
We want to rebuild trust by rebuilding the process of knowledge dissemination.
Laura Degiovanni -Founder
Why Truth Library Exists
Truth Library began with a simple question:
How can we ensure reliable information remains accessible, verifiable, and truthful to source in a world where information is increasingly manipulated?
The project is built for those who care about truth and want tools that defend it: researchers, policymakers, journalists, educators, sustainability professionals, regulators, citizen-scientists, and anyone committed to evidence-based thinking.
Our initial focus is Climate Change, but the mission is broader:
Start with Climate & Environmental topics
Expand to Social & Governance sustainability
Extend to emerging domains where misinformation creates real harm:
AI & emerging technologies
Healthcare & analytics
Policy, innovation, and any topic where truth is at stake
We are building an infrastructure of provenance-rich knowledge that grows with its community.
How the Library Works: From Research to Verified Q&A
Truth Library turns scientific research into structured, transparent, verifiable Q&A units.
The strength of the retrieval system lies in the distributed way how research enters the library , through two complementary ingestion pathways designed for scale, transparency, and decentralisation without compromising copyrights nor reliability.
Distributed Knowledge Ingestion (pdf2qa)
Any eligible researcher, institution, or knowledge provider can use pdf2qa to:
Upload research documents
Convert them into structured Q&A
Add source metadata
Transfer them to the Library
This makes the library a living, community-curated bank of scientific truth, not a closed, centralized repository — continuously updated in real time with research and information that matter.
Automated Continuous Ingestion (APIs & Partners)
A parallel automated engine continuously retrieves content from:
Open Access research publishers
Partner organisations
Public entities and scientific repositories
Sustainability knowledge networks
Every piece of content passes through the same responsible AI processing pipeline, ony extracted Q&As are stored with complete provenance.
What Makes Truth Library Different
Provenance First Every Q&A links back to its exact source - title, author, DOI, publisher, and URL. Consensus Measurement The system calculates cross-source agreement to show where knowledge is aligned, contested, evolving, or controversial. No more biased judgment, just a clear signal for everyone to see where consensus exists. Contradiction Discovery Instead of long searches to figure out where pieces of information contradict each other, Truth Library compares small chunks of knowledge for rapid contradiction discovery, allowing critical minds to take a stand using their own judgment. Correlation Mapping Users can explore how topics relate across domains, revealing hidden patterns in global knowledge.
Community Validation
Users can upvote, challenge, comment, add insights, and are credited for their work, creating a transparent human-AI knowledge loop.
Unlike other AI systems, Truth Library prioritizes accuracy over speed, verification over hype, and openness over gatekeeping. It is designed to empower critical thinking and informed action, not just provide information.A Clarifying Alternative to AI Hype
While the AI sector attracts billions, very few investments focus on truth-focused AI. A recent article highlighted a growing concern: money pours into startups promising “AI automation” and “AI productivity explosions,” while projects that protect truth—verification, transparency, provenance—are largely ignored.
Truth Library is built on the opposite principle:
No shortcuts. No hype. No hallucinated answers. Just trustworthy knowledge.
Why we choose to be a Community Interest Company
Being unbiased is a costly choice. It means:
Refusing financial shortcuts and hype-driven growth.
Rejecting partnerships that prioritize profit over truth.
Investing in systems that reward creators, maintain provenance, and deliver reliable insights.
Truth Library is not just a tool — it is a collective mission. It ensures everyone, everywhere, can access, verify, and act on knowledge. It is about freedom to think and freedom to be, requiring diverse knowledge, critical thinking, and global inclusion.
Remember the COVID-19 miscommunication crisis? Millions of lives were affected because accurate knowledge wasn’t universally accessible in real-time. Imagine if a system like Truth Library, with verified consensus scoring, had existed. Decision-making could have been more effective, global responses more aligned. The same principle applies to climate change, sustainability, and countless other areas where truth matters.
Our Achievements So Far
pdf2qa: fully developed pipeline for extracting Q&As from PDFs. (Free testing here
Truth Library beta platform: fully operational and accessible for volunteers and early users.(Free access here)
Volunteer community: 120+ members shaping the first ever knowledge infrastructure, refining algorithms and verify knowledge architecture.
Next step
Heading to processing 500,000 Q&As from 25,000 climate-science papers, building the first layer of the global knowledge map. Later, we will expand to climate-related media and topics aligned with the 17 SDGs, eventually covering every domain where truth is at stake.
Why Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is more than fundraising. It allows us to:
Identify who is truly committed to building a truthful, unbiased knowledge ecosystem.
Create a strong, collaborative community of volunteers, innovators, and supporters.
Avoid hype-driven shortcuts and ensure the project is guided by integrity, not profit.
Your contribution directly powers the growth of Truth Library and gives you the opportunity to shape knowledge yourself.
How You Can Support the Mission From now on, topic-by-topic crowdfunding campaigns will be available on DonorBox
Each campaign focuses on a specific domain (starting with Climate Change).
This allows those who directly participate and care about the topic, to have an immediate benefit from this powerful databank made 'bite-sized, consensus scored and contradictory sensitive. for those who rally and care deeply about a specific issue and be recognized as supporters [ if they want], on the relevant topic supporters Wall.
👉 Campaign Link: https://donorbox.org/fund-environmental-truth-accessible-to-all
Updated per-topic Cost Breakdown
$8,300 - Q&A processing, consensus evaluation, contradiction mapping
$1,200 - Core infrastructure and hosting
$ 500 - Tools & subscriptions used by volunteers
Every contribution, even the smallest, directly accelerates a knowledge resource that benefits everyone.
Donation Tiers & Benefits
We’ve added three accessible tiers so that more people can join the movement:
💛 DONATION TIERS — SUPPORT TRUTH, PROTECT THE FUTURE Help us ingest the first wave of climate-critical knowledge.
Benefits:
£5 – Friend
✔ Access to the community Slack
✔ Real-time updates on platform development
✔ Listed as a Friend (unless your 'anonymous')
£10 – Contributor
✔ All Friend benefits
✔ Priority invites to community calls and demo sessions
£20 — Supporter
✔ All Contributor benefits
✔ Your name listed as an early supporter
✔ Unlimited search access for 1 month
£50 — Sustainer
Fuel the expansion of verified climate Q&A.
Benefits:
✔ All Supporter benefits
✔ Unlimited search access for 3 months
✔ Early access to new climate-science releases
£100 — Advocate
Strengthen the foundation of a global truth infrastructure.
Benefits:
✔ All Sustainer benefits
✔ Unlimited search access for 6 months
✔ Monthly “Truth Brief” with key evidence updates
£250 — Defender of Truth
Accelerate the fight against misinformation where it matters most.
Benefits:
✔ All Advocate benefits
✔ Unlimited search access for 1 year
✔ Recognition on the QuTii “Founding Contributors” page
✔ Priority access to beta features
£500 — Visionary Contributor
Push Truth Library into new domains beyond climate science.
Benefits:
✔ All Defender benefits
✔ Unlimited search access for 2 years
✔ Two annual strategy/feedback sessions with our team
✔ Early access to new knowledge clusters
£1,000 — Founding Member
Stand among the individuals shaping the world’s first truth infrastructure.
Benefits:
✔ All Visionary benefits
✔ Unlimited search access forever
✔ Your name permanently engraved on the Truth Library Founders' Wall
✔ Invitations to private briefings with scientific & technical advisors
Why This Matters — Now More Than Ever
The hype surrounding AI is pushing the world toward speed, automation, and scale — often at the cost of truth, nuance, and verification.
As a recent article highlighted, millions are being poured into AI startups that optimise engagement, automation, and output, while very little funding supports organisations working on accuracy, provenance, and epistemic integrity.
Truth Library stands deliberately against this trend.
We are not building “faster content.”We are building truer knowledge.
And we need a community of people who believe that truth deserves infrastructure.
Join the Movement
This project can only exist because people like you believe truth matters enough to build for it.
👉 Donate to the Climate Knowledge Campaign:https://gofund.me/94ddcf51
Whether you contribute £5 or £500, your support accelerates a transparent, community-driven knowledge backbone for climate, sustainability, emerging tech, and beyond.
Let’s build the world’s first public-good knowledge infrastructure. Together.
Reach out To Us
Regardless if its just or asking more details, partnering or just learn who is behind the project, please keep in touch with the Team here:
Slack Community: HERE
Talk to the Founder: HERE
Contact Us: HERE
Media/Publisher partnerships: HERE
Who is TiiQu?
TiiQu is a social enterprise, recognized by the European Commission in 2017 for our blockchain-based credentialing system. We applied our expertise in verifiable trust to the bigger challenge: tackling the problem of truth at scale. By combining technology, community, and transparency, we aim to make verified knowledge accessible and actionable — not just for experts, but for all global citizens. One-pager: HERE