World Wide Web Foundation
Web Foundation
Founded in 2009 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith to advance an open web as a public good and a basic right.
What they publish
- Open Data BarometerIndex
- Ranked governments on open data readiness, implementation and impact.
- Contract for the WebPrinciples
- Commitments for governments, companies and citizens to keep the web open and safe for everyone.
Measures open data by country
Open Data Barometer · since 2013 · Global · Last edition 2018
- Policy: Laws, strategies and commitments that require or support open data.
- Readiness: Skills, institutions and resources to publish and use data.
- Availability: Whether key datasets are published at all.
- Openness: Open licence, machine-readable formats, free and bulk access.
- Impact: Evidence that published data is reused and makes a difference.
Working on similar things
OKF
Non-profit · since 2004
Open Knowledge Foundation
A global non-profit that has shaped the open data movement since 2004: it wrote the Open Definition, created the CKAN portal software and ran the Global Open Data Index.
OGP
Intergovernmental · since 2011
Open Government Partnership
A partnership of national and local governments and civil society, launched in 2011, whose members co-create action plans on transparency, participation and accountability.
ODC
Non-profit · since 2015
Open Data Charter
A collaboration between governments and experts, launched in 2015, that promotes shared principles for how governments publish data.