Transparency

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.

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• 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

• Wikipedia

Essays

• A Parable about Openness by David Brin