Openness

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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