The Open Knowledge Foundation 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. The Foundation is an international leader in its field and has extensive experience in building tools and community around open material. Their software development work includes some of the most innovative and widely acclaimed projects in the area. For example, the CKAN project is the world’s leading open source data portal platform.