Appnovation Technologies is a Vancouver-based web development company specializing in open source technologies. We help non-profit oganizations such as Institute for the Future and the Canadian Cancer Society with website and web application development. By using open source technologies, we help non-profits utilize their web development budgets more efficiently. Some open source technologies that we specialize includes Drupal and WordPress. The Digital Open web site has been built by us using the Drupal (www.drupal.org) open source platform.

ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons that is dedicated to supporting open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to the creation, sharing, and reuse of educational materials—legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.

Educational paradigms are changing. The Internet has profoundly altered the ways in which information is accessed and shared. One of the most exciting new trends is the growth of OER: free, authoritative educational resources that can be easily accessed, shared, and modified by anyone at any time. The availability of open educational content is growing exponentially, but its use does not appear to be widespread. Worse, much of the OER currently being created is incompatible — legally and technically — with other OER.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. We provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.

Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

We're a nonprofit organization. Everything we do — including the software we create — is free.

The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences was founded in 1998 to help drive the creative, technical, and professional progress of the Internet and evolving forms of interactive media.

An international organization, The Academy selects the Nominees and Winners for The Webby Awards, the leading honor for Web sites and individual achievement in technology and creativity. Presented by The Academy, The Webbys recognizes excellence in interactive creativity, establishing best practices on a yearly basis, and thus pushing the standards of web development continually higher.

Through our newsletter, lectures and year-round collaboration in online and offline events we encourage people inside and outside the industry to share ideas and information.

NetSquared—an initiative of nonprofit TechSoup Global—educates individuals, communities and organizations about the power of social media tools, and provides funding and networking opportunities. Currently, NetSquared works in three key areas to achieve its goal of leveraging social change through the use of social media tools—NetSquared.org serves as a virtual hub for roughly 30,000 Net2 members; Social Innovation Challenges award cash prizes to projects that demonstrate viability and impact in the areas of social media and activism; and Real-time community building including monthly events called NetTuesdays (held in 30 cities globally) and the annual NetSquared Conference.

Participatory Culture Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 as an open media advocacy organization, working to shape the future of mass media for the public interest. PCF makes bottom-up economies and cultures possible by ensuring that our political, social and cultural systems are open and democratic everywhere. PCF works to eliminate gatekeepers and empower communities to advance democracies, small economies, human rights and the public sphere. PCF develops programs and an Internet platform for democratizing one of the most engaging mass mediums: television and video. Miro, the free and open source HD video player and distribution system, is PCF's flagship project that’s downloaded millions of times every year.

Teens in Tech is a media platform and community for teenagers wanting to produce media content, and distribute their content via the internet. Empower teenage media production.

The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) is a science museum open to all to share the new wisdom of the 21st century.

In addition to innovative hands-on exhibits that allow visitors to interact with science, there are Science Workshops, Special Exhibitions, Talk Sessions, etc. Through dialogues with the Science Communicator and volunteers, visitors can experience cutting-edge science and technology as it is meant to be: the "state-of-the-art knowledge and innovation." Through these activities, Miraikan aims to share this cutting-edge science and technology with the whole society as part of enriched human culture.

 The World Wide Workshop Foundation is a global non-profit educational organization committed to harnessing the potential of computers and the Internet to enhance technological fluency for creative learning, leadership, innovation, and livelihood skills among children and youth in economically-disadvantaged and technologically-underserved communities worldwide. Founded in 2004, the foundation works in collaboration with forward-thinking leaders, corporations, schools, universities, and research centers to develop open-source applications of social media technology and game production programs (such as Globaloria) that enrich and transform existing formal and non-formal education with the latest technology and innovative learning opportunities.