2. The Open Knowledge Foundation
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.
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.

3. 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.

4. CKAN - OpenSource Data Platform
CKAN - 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.

5. CKAN - Case Studies
CKAN 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.