Compare this with the Facebook Platform, which can be seen as the closed model of openness.
This legislation would provide a model of openness for other nations to follow.
Outside experts oversaw last year's auction of mobile-telecoms licences, which was hailed as a model of openness and fairness.
"We have no choice but to adapt an Asian version of the American model of openness and entrepreneurialism," said Victor Fung, chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. "Fortunately, that's where Hong Kong already has an advantage".
"We've moved to a model of openness in adoption, but this is not adoption," said Dr. Susan Klock, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and psychiatry at Northwestern's medical school.
The telecoms group would prefer guaranteed access to the high-definition versions plus Sky Sports 3 and 4, arguing that it itself is obliged to be a model of openness in offering competitors' access to its fibre network.
Being the company's main source of revenue, critics say, it is hardly a model of openness and transparency.There is no conspiracy behind the emergence of these platforms.
But the Comcast corporate governance is hardly a model of openness, says Rakesh Khurana, a professor at Harvard Business School, and it has much in common with other family companies gone public.
Bernanke is moving the Fed towards a new model of openness, at least when it comes to answering questions from the press, and says he's going to give regular pressers from now on.
Madeline, my 3-year-old, was eating grilled cheese for lunch and out of curiosity asked me to read aloud to her. Mary the mother of Jesus, I read, is a model of gratitude and contentment, a model of openness to the "mean surroundings" of the world and the "lowly stables" of our lives.
