Transparency
operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed; implies openness, communication, and accountability.
Transparency is a policy of making information public. It is implemented by a set of policies, practices and procedures that allow citizens to have accessibility, usability, utility, understandability, informativeness and auditability of information and process held by centers of authority (society or organizations).
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Quotes
edit- Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
- Louis Brandeis, Other People's Money—and How Bankers Use It (1914)
- Nobody wants to be perfectly transparent; not to others, certainly not to himself.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Preludes, p.8.
- Public truths ought never to be kept secrets; and they who do it, are guilty of a solecism, and a contradiction: Every man ought to know what it concerns all to know. Now, nothing upon earth is of a more universal nature than government; and every private man upon earth has a concern in it, because in it is concerned, and nearly and immediately concerned, his virtue, his property, and the security of his person: And where all these are best preserved and advanced, the government is best administered; and where they are not, the government is impotent, wicked, or unfortunate; and where the government is so, the people will be so, there being always and every where a certain sympathy and analogy between the nature of the government and the nature of the people.
- Gordon, Thomas (July 22, 1721). Cato's Letter No. 38, The Right and Capacity of the People to Judge of Government.