FIWARE brings the standards helping to develop smart applications in multiple domains. It helps to drive the evolution from open data to the data economy. The FIWARE platform is fully open source, implementing public and royalty-free APIs using an implementation-driven approach. It means freedom. It is based on the contribution of a large community. It helps startups and SMEs to accelerate their business. Thinking globally but acting locally, now growing through the development of the FIWARE Foundation.