The Open Commons Consortium (OCC) manages and operates cloud computing, data commons, and data ecosystems to advance scientific, medical, health care and environmental research for human and societal impact. The OCC provides: i) the consortium and project management; ii) the legal agreements and governance structure; iii) manages and operates the cloud computing infrastructure; and iv) manages the security and compliance required. The OCC is a division of the Center for Computational Science Research Inc. (CCSR), a Chicago based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit that supports analytic, scientific, biomedical, and environmental research and applications.