The ISCC Foundation is an independent international nonprofit organization that promotes information technologies for the purpose of the common good. In particular the foundation supports and promotes the development and adoption of open standards and open source technologies as well as tools and services that enable individuals and organizations to better create, manage, discover, access, share, and monetize digital content, knowledge and ideas. The purpose of the foundation is furthermore to collect and distribute funding for research, development, promotion and support of open, interoperable and decentralized content identifier technology for the benefit of all individuals in the creative community as well as media organizations and institutions that deal with digital content.