A community-based, not-for-profit. The Foundation now has projects and partnerships throughout the world and is especially active in Europe.

We build tools and communities to create, use and share open knowledge - content and data that everyone can use, share and build on.

The Open Knowledge Foundation

We believe that by creating an open knowledge commons and developing tools and communities around this we can make a significant contribution to improving governance, research and the economy.

OpenSpending.org

Mapping the money globally - track every public financial transaction from governments and corporations around the world.

Started with internationally recognized Where Does My Money Go? project in the UK. Grown in last 6 months to involve 15+ countries.Used by NGOs, researchers, journalists and others.

Interactive data store plus suite of tools for analysis and visualisation. Platform can be used on a per institution or per-project basis, e.g. to present information for just one city or municipality.

CKAN - OpenSource Data PlatformCKAN - http://ckan.org/ - is open source software for running data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it possible for governments and other institutions to publish and share data quickly and easily.

CKAN - Case StudiesCKAN powers Data.Gov.UK, the International Aid Transparency Initiative Registry http://iatiregistry.org/, PublicData.eu, Dutch and Norwegian Government open data sites and more than 30 other institutional and community data portals around the world.