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* Open Knowledge Forums<ref>{{Cite web|title = Open Knowledge Forums|url = https://discuss.okfn.org|website = discuss.okfn.org|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref>
* Information Accessibility Initiative
* Open [[geodata]]<ref>{{Cite web|title = Open Geodata Community {{!}} OSGeo.org|url = http://www.osgeo.org/geodata/community|website = www.osgeo.orgOSGeo |access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref>
* Guide to open data licensing
* "Get the Data" — a web-site for questions and answer on how to get data sets.
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=== Events ===
Much of the collaboration with other related organisations occurs via events that the foundation hosts.<ref>{{cite web|last = Holloway|first = Michael|title = PUBLICPublic SECTORsector INFORMATIONinformation: OFFICIALLYofficially BETTERbetter WHENwhen shared SHARED|url = http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2008/public-sector-information-officially-better-when-shared|publisher = Digital Rights Group|access-date = 1 November 2015|date = March 2008|quote = And if you get excited by material that's free to access, reuse or re-distribute, then please come down to tomorrow's OKCon, for a day of seminars and workshops around the theme of 'Applications, Tools and Services'.}}</ref> Its premier event is the '''Open Knowledge Conference''' (OKCon), which has been held occasionally since 2007.<ref>{{cite web|last = Open Knowledge Foundation|title = About|url = http://okcon.org/about/|access-date = 1 November 2015|quote = The Annual [sic] Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon)}}</ref> Other events have been organised within the areas of data visualisation<ref>{{cite web|last = Gehelenborg|first = Nils|title = Workshop on Open Visualization|url = http://network.nature.com/groups/scivis/forum/topics/1498|publisher = Nature Network|access-date = 1 November 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023413/http://network.nature.com/groups/scivis/forum/topics/1498|archive-date = 4 March 2016}}</ref> and free information network infrastructure.<ref>{{cite web|last = Doctorow|first = Cory|title = Free Information Infrastructure event in London next weekend|date = 26 September 2005|url = http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/26/free-information-inf.html|access-date = 1 November 2015}}</ref>
 
Annually, Open Knowledge Foundation supports [[International Open Data Day]]