Difference between revisions of "Transparency"
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Revision as of 23:05, 10 July 2006
Transparency refers to the idea that social and political processes should be both visible and accountable, in order to minimize error. It is one of the mechanisms whereby public error correction can take place.
Related Articles
- Transparency is a policy which allows and encourages public error correction
- Transparency is one of the key ideas of modernism.
- CITOKATE (Criticism Is The Only Known Antidote To Error) is an acronymic expression of the basic idea of transparency
Related Concepts
- The software development maxim "many eyeballs make all bugs shallow" (Linus's law) is essentially applying transparency to the field of software development.
Reference
Essays
- A Parable about Openness by David Brin