Editing Radical transparency (section)

==History and uses==

Modern usage of the term radical transparency coincided with increased public use of [[Information communications technologies]] including the [[Internet]]. [[Kevin Kelly (editor)|Kevin Kelly]] argued in 1994 that, “in the network era, openness wins, central control is lost.”<ref name="Kelly">{{Cite book| last=Kelly| first=Kevin| year=1994| title=Out of control : the rise of neo-biological civilization| publisher=Addison-Wesley| isbn=9780201577938| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/outofcontrolrise00kell}}</ref>{{rp|p.116}} [[David Brin]]'s writing on ''[[The Transparent Society]]'' re-imagined the societal consequences of radical transparency remixing [[George Orwell|Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]''. However, the explicit political argument for “radical transparency”<ref name="Hammond"/> was first made in a 2001 [[Foreign Affairs]] article on information and communication technology driving economic growth in developing regions. In 2006 [[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]’s Chris Anderson blogged on the shift from secrecy to transparency blogging culture had made on corporate communications, and highlighted the next step as a shift to ‘radical transparency’ where the “whole product development process [is] laid bare, and opened to customer input.”<ref name="Anderson">{{cite web |last=Anderson |first=Chris |url=http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/11/in_praise_of_ra.html |title=The LongTale: In Praise of Radical Transparency |date=November 26, 2006 |accessdate=April 15, 2012 |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512075807/http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/11/in_praise_of_ra.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> By 2008 the term was being used to describe the [[WikiLeaks]] platform that radically decentralized the power, voices and visibility of governance knowledge that was previously secret.<ref name="Heemsbergen">{{Citation| last=Heemsbergen| first=Luke| year=2008| title=Radical Pockets of Digital Democracy: Deleuzian Grandeur?| publisher=Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28–31, 2008}}</ref>{{rp|p.58}}