The focus of interest was on the development process of a model for knowledge sharing that emphasizes the characteristics and the needs of the user community; the empowerment and democratic issues of openness; the collaboration between institutions and dialog with society; and the consideration of quality and sustainability issues.
Most often, the description related to issues of openness and transparency.
Nor is the issue of openness and learning from mistakes a new one.
Elsewhere, in Central or South America, for example, transparency as the antidote to corruption has been the driving issue towards openness.
But there are other levels of significance, and the issue of openness by the clergy is only one.
The same vexed issue of openness versus closure surrounds Junket, an "unconference" that youth publisher Junkee Media will hold in Canberra this weekend.
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.
Although the Iranian questions were focused mainly on the economy, the president was also pressed on the issues of political openness and press freedom.
They discussed several issues, but the openness of both sides, several players said, helped to debunk the rampant conspiracy theories that seem to crop up each postseason.
The living currency of her work is her body as she turns herself into a moving object in order to reject and claim certain identities and prejudices along with issues of difference, openness, tolerance, and knowledge.
In the process, they're exploring the complex issues that online openness and freedom of information imply and pose the question: Is this the world we want to live in?
