Discussion of issues related to transparency for business at the Social Business Summit Sydney http://bit.ly/c6hA5E

1. TransparencyRisk to the business or not? Kate Carruthers Social Business Summit Sydney March 2010 1 www.katecarruthers.com | © Kate Carruthers 2010

2. www.katecarruthers.com | © Kate Carruthers 2010 2 So what?

3. an open society … Ensures that political leaders can be overthrown without the need for bloodshed Where individuals are confronted with personal decisions as opposed to a “magical or tribal or collectivist society” Source: Karl Popper "The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume One", Routledge (1945, reprint 2006), chapter 10 part I

4. these are not the same thing…

5. 5 “Transparency doesn't magically make organizations more egalitarian and flat; it makes the asymmetries of power and hierarchy more visible.” Source: Michael Schrage http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2010/03/is-honesty-the-best-policy-in.html

6. asymmetries of power …