High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a not-for-profit organization that promotes open knowledge, including open content and open data. It was founded 24 May 2004 in Cambridge, UK. The foundation has published the Open Knowledge Definition and runs several projects, such as CKAN, the registry software used by many governments for their open data projects and Where Does My Money Go, a service to monitor government spending. As well as technical tools, the foundation also provides advocacy and licensing advice around open content issues. For example, it supported the development of the Open Database Licence (ODbL) and the Open Knowledge Definition.