At the time of its arrival, the company said that it believed that the benefits of its presence in China outweighed the downside of being forced to censor some search results here, as it would provide more information and openness to Chinese citizens.
At the time, company officials said that they thought that the benefits of its presence in China -- ostensibly providing more information and openness to Chinese citizens -- outweighed being forced to censor search results.
Because these attacks threaten free expression, access to information, openness, innovation and privacy, it's not surprising that people of all political stripes have joined in their defense.
For some, information openness has become a means to an end.
To enable this outcome, health care companies will need to change quite deeply, with a considerable rethinking and expansion of their scope, their ability to respond to dynamic information, and their openness to participate in a layered ecosystem.
Glenn W. Muschert, "Information, Openness, and Secrecy: On the Usefulness of Simmel to Surveillance Studies" Using Simmel's (1906) article "The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies" as a stepping-off point, this talk examines Simmel's impact on social scientific studies of secrecy.
"The culture stresses information, openness and a sort of transparency.
"Generally speaking economists believe that more public information, openness and transparency make markets work better," said Chris Carroll, a professor of economics at John Hopkins University.
Most fruitful and successful collaborations are characterized by the "win-win situation" where all partners have clear benefits of working together and they share a mutual trust and respect and an openness to share information and data among participating partners.
In Anguelov (2015), we built a model focusing on macro-level government action in combination with metrics that we use as proxies for openness to foreign information, which include investment, imports, and foreign aid.
