This chapter discusses the issue of openness first in relation to the requirements of the generalization community and then in the broader context of open standards, open architectures, and open sources for geographic information.
As Harlow states: "good government in the administrative context involves ideals of "openness, fairness, participation, accountability consistency [and] rationality .92 Aims such as these are remarkably similar to themes of 'good practice' that have often been described in various forms of crisis communication.93.
In the context of mobility and openness, deployment must react to the instability of the network of machines (failures, connections, disconnections, variations in the quality of the resources, etc).. Thus, deployment should be an uninterrupted process which also works when software is running and requires adaptiveness in order to continually satisfy the constraints and the requirements.
The new service is "a gesture of openness within a context of the ability to have monopoly control," said Ted Henken, a professor at City University of New York who closely follows the Cuban blogosphere, noting that Etecsa requires users to sign a contract warning that they will be monitored for subversive activity.
The problem with the Zuckerberg Agenda is that we still don't know how his notion of "openness" fits within a broader context of democratic politics.
The dimensions of openness framework also provides a context for evaluation and constructive criticism of contemporary conventions and institutions of participation, assessment, and policy making, and a basis for developing new conventions and institutions.
Fourth, don't open for the sake of openness.
Government policy choices, often made in the context of Structural Adjustment Programmes, have shifted in favour of openness of trade and financial flows.
It's worth noting that disclosure, though a technical term in the context of securities, expresses a broader and distinctly American ideal — that of openness.
Concerns affecting objectivity and bias in the context of search engines are also closely related to controversies pertaining to the lack of "openness" or "transparency".
