Openness Activities Table
| Activity/Good | Less | <— Openness —> | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Society | Limited right to assembly | Freedom to assemble | SMS & Social networking sites (e.g. Facebook) as political organizing tools |
| Media | State controlled, centralized media | Corporate controlled media | Independent or distributed media (e.g., blogs) |
| Cultural content | Books / Radio / Television | cell-content | Collaborative production of content (youTube, open source movies) |
| Government decision making | Centralized decision-making | Provide information and perhaps some forms for feedback (email address etc.) | participatory decision making (e.g., participatory budgeting) |
| Government Information Provision | Provide data in paper format for those who can come in and get it, e.g., government owned/collected spatial and demographic data | Provide data online. E.g., publicly available spatial data (aerial imagery, municipal boundaries, aggregated census data, etc.) | Provide (re)useable data online or collaborative development of data E.g., Participatory GIS using government sponsored spatial data |
| Government service provision | Provided by offices | Office & e-services | Collaborative creation of services |
| Software development/provision | Proprietary software | Software APIs | Open source collaborative development |
| Software use | Use proprietary software | Use open source software (e.g., open source in government, open source e-voting) | |
| Personal communication | Voice | Landline phones | Mobile Phones |
| Devices | Proprietary/patented hardware | Open software devices (e.g., Open Moko) | Open Hardware - In several cases, most end users (without programming skills) have not cared about FOSS or Proprietary tools as long as it works for what they want. This is a grey areas for assessing utility of openness |
| Science/Research | Pay science journals, Proprietary research data | Online open journals | Open research data |
| Education Resources | Textbooks | Textbooks online | Collaborative development of school curriculum |
| Information | Voice, Reference books, etc | Encyclopaedia (Information) free online | Collaborative information development: Forums, Wikipedia, etc… |
| Internet Access | Dial-up | Broadband cable and/or licensed spectrum wireless | Open wireless / mesh networks |
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