transparency initiatives
Accountability promotion efforts
Transparency initiatives are organized efforts to make information publicly accessible, especially regarding government operations, corporate practices, or institutional decision-making.
The term appears frequently in discussions of accountability and good governance: The administration launched transparency initiatives to publish all spending data online.
Such initiatives typically involve disclosure requirements, open-data policies, or freedom-of-information mechanisms.
- open governmentRight to state information
- sunshine lawsLegislation mandating government transparency
- whistleblowingExposing hidden wrongdoing internally
- open dataFreely shareable digital information
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
watchdog groups · freedom of information · follow the money · paper trail · corporate governance · stakeholder engagement · sunshine · clear as day · sunlight · policy reform · audit trails · dark money · behind closed doors · public trust · oversight · anti-corruption · financial disclosure · digital dashboards
- transparencyopenness, disclosure, clarity, honesty, candor
transparency initiativessecrecy
Practice of hiding information
opacity · cover-ups · concealment · non-disclosure · censorship
transparency initiativesinformation silos
Isolated pockets of unshared knowledge
compartmentalization · old boys' network · smoke-filled rooms
transparency initiativesstonewalling
Deliberately refusing to respond
propaganda · spin doctoring · gaslighting · whitewashing · plausible deniability