Abstract
Initiatives that are calling for transparency, open and easy access to information (of academic, administrative or any other origin) are gaining momentum and are beginning to differentiate more and more. The claims range from Free Access to information to Open Access according to the principles of the Open Source community. Some initiatives focus more on transparency rather than on openness, such as the whistleblower platform Wikileaks, while others (e.g. Open Government and Open Access to Research Data) combine the demands for transparency and openness or focus on the provision of non-proprietary information (like the geodata project OpenStreetMap or Open Metrics concepts in the scientific area). Twelve authors from different Open Data projects and from the context of Open Access to scientific information, Open Science, journalism and law analyze the Open Initiatives and discuss their common limitations as well as radical concepts of Openness such as WikiLeaks and Anonymous.
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