Difference between revisions of "Transparency"
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* [http://www.wikileaks.org/faq.html WikiLeaks] (under construction): a site for principled document leaking and analysis. "We have received over 1.1 million documents so far." (as of 2007-01-11) | * [http://www.wikileaks.org/faq.html WikiLeaks] (under construction): a site for principled document leaking and analysis. "We have received over 1.1 million documents so far." (as of 2007-01-11) | ||
** discussion: [http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/11/1859218.shtml slashdot] (there appears to be some genuine concern that the site is mostly a scam to attract investment capital) | ** discussion: [http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/11/1859218.shtml slashdot] (there appears to be some genuine concern that the site is mostly a scam to attract investment capital) | ||
| + | * [http://www.witness.org/ Witness]: "international human rights organization that provides training and support to local groups to use video in their human rights advocacy campaigns." | ||
===Essays=== | ===Essays=== | ||
Revision as of 17:13, 12 January 2007
Overview
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.
- The Open Business Model is an application of transparency to the business world.
Links
Reference
Projects
- WikiLeaks (under construction): a site for principled document leaking and analysis. "We have received over 1.1 million documents so far." (as of 2007-01-11)
- discussion: slashdot (there appears to be some genuine concern that the site is mostly a scam to attract investment capital)
- Witness: "international human rights organization that provides training and support to local groups to use video in their human rights advocacy campaigns."
Essays
- A Parable about Openness by David Brin