A Quote by Howard Rheingold

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control. — © Howard Rheingold
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.
The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation.
Trust, love, what we call sexy, who we trust in a business situation, are all based on how open we are. Openness is bodily openness, muscular relaxation, heart openness as opposed to hiding behind some emotional wall, and spiritual openness, which is actually feeling so fully into the moment that there's no separation between you and the entire moment.
... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance of the intellect. Through this surveillance we prescribe what is fitting for every faculty of the soul and every member of the body. For the senses we prescribe what they should take into account and to what extent they should do so, and this exercise of the spiritual law is called self-control.
The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.
The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.
Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.
I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.
There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well.
Overall state control with foreign participation is as good as you are going to get in South America at this moment.
Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of being watched.
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.
Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.
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