The end of secrecy
Two standards of behavior are slugging it out around the world. Advocates of well-established norms such as corporate privacy and national sovereignty want to hide information from prying eyes, while promoters of transparency tout it as the solution to everything from international financial crises...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
1998
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| Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2320 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3577/viewcontent/EndofSecrecy_1998.pdf |
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| Institution: | Singapore Management University |
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| Summary: | Two standards of behavior are slugging it out around the world. Advocates of well-established norms such as corporate privacy and national sovereignty want to hide information from prying eyes, while promoters of transparency tout it as the solution to everything from international financial crises to arms races and street crime. Just what is transparency? Put simply, transparency is the opposite of secrecy. Secrecy means deliberately hiding your actions; transparency means deliberately revealing them. This element of volition makes the growing acceptance of transparency much more than a resigned surrender to the technologically facilitated intrusiveness of the Information Age. Transparency is a choice, encouraged by changing attitudes about what constitutes appropriate behavior. |
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