Openness 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)
Famous quotes containing the word openness:
“The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there’s a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. ... poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.”
—Rita Dove (b. 1952)
“Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)