This document summarizes FIWARE, an open source platform and ecosystem for developing smart city and industrial IoT solutions. It discusses FIWARE's goals of establishing an open innovation ecosystem to collaboratively develop solutions improving quality of life and productivity. It provides an overview of the FIWARE platform, which delivers a set of open generic enablers and APIs through the FIWARE Lab. It also discusses FIWARE's global activities including its presence in Europe and expansion in Latin America through nodes in Mexico and Brazil.