Openness
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Openness is the quality of being open. It sometimes refers to a very general philosophical position from which some individuals and organizations operate, often highlighted by a decision-making process recognizing communal management by distributed stakeholders (users/producers/contributors) rather than a centralized authority (owners, experts, boards of directors, etc.)
Openness could be a synonym of :
- Open system : Openness to experience, wiki, direct democracy, open spirituality, respect for all other beings, etc. (fully open)
- Transparency : openness in a utilitarian view : economical openness, open economic or politic data, etc. (lower degree of openness)
See also
- Transparency (humanities)
- Connectivism (learning theory)
- Open source
- Free content
- Open access (publishing)
- Open education
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- Open system (systems theory)
- Open theism
- Openness as a dimension of personality
- Glasnost
- Massive open online course
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