The Open Knowledge Foundation – Empowering Through Open Knowledge
http://okfn.org/

They are a global movement to open up knowledge around the world and see it used and useful. They bring together a diverse community, building a network of individuals and organizations, founded on key principles. The Open Knowledge Foundation is trusted, non-partisan, pioneering and passionate. They create change by educating, empowering, evangelizing and making. The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open data and open content in all their forms – including government data, publicly funded research and public domain cultural content. It is an international leader in its field and has extensive experience in building tools and community around open material. The Foundation’s software development work includes some of the most innovative and widely acclaimed projects in the area. For example, its CKAN project is the world’s leading open source data portal platform – used by data.gov, data.gov.uk, the European Commission’s open data portal, and numerous national, regional and local portals from Austria to Brazil. Its award winning OpenSpending project enables users to explore over 13 million government spending transactions from around the world. It has an active global network which includes Working Groups and Local Groups in dozens of countries – including groups, ambassadors and partners in 21 of Europe’s 27 Member States. As a team, they promote open knowledge and access because they believe these principles have the potential to deliver far-reaching societal benefits. Read more about our vision. ‘Open knowledge’ is any content, information or data that people are free to use, re-use and redistribute — without any legal, technological or social restriction. We detail exactly what openness entails in the Open Knowledge Definition. The main principles are: 1) Free and open access to the material; 2) Freedom to redistribute the material; 3) Freedom to reuse the material; and 4) No restriction of the above based on who someone is (e.g. their nationality) or their field of endeavour (e.g. commercial or non-commercial). This will be added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Statistics Resources and Big Data Subject Tracer™.