Transparency

Bribery and corruption is an issue that is very happening in most of the countries. What is bribery and corruption? Bribery is a practice of offering something to gain certain advantage, for example: money, assets, gift and so on and so forth, and corruption is when an individual itself abuse its power to gain an undue advantage. Bribery is an unethical behavior and it is also very unfair practice, for example: the employer pay people for their normal job is called wage, and when the employee…

Bad Things Happen to Good People “The Discussion of Earth is Cruel” In the article written by Leonard Pitts called Sometimes the Earth is Cruel, he explains how the earth can be cruel to people that don’t have the privileges that some people who have money. In this article Leonard explains all the tragic things that has happened to the little town of Haiti. The thing that makes these people less privileged is that they are very poor and they have a history for having political instability.…

Nations are not the only entities capable of providing aid, and much of the individual work done in foreign countries comes from the private sector of society. Military aid will almost always require a government presence, but smaller expeditions, such as volunteers sent to teach, or distribute medicine, or provide service, act independently from the government. These organizations often provide a large amount of disaster relief as well, collecting and distributing donations of food, clean water…

Open Development 1. What are the main challenges to aid effectiveness, and how does open data address these challenges? The main challenges to aid effectiveness are high complexity, enormous transaction costs, lack of strategic and holistic approaches, and lack of country ownership. High complexity involves the coordination between numerous international aid agencies, and within those aid agencies. The United States, for example, has been said to have contradictory, as well as competing,…

Corporate transparency Opening case study: Apple In the early 1970s, Xerox developed world-changing computer technology, as well as the mouse and the graphical user interface. (Modern GUIs include Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.) One of the devices was called the Xerox Alto, a desktop personal computer that Xerox never concerned to market. A decade later, several Apple employees, including Steve Jobs, visited the Xerox PARC research and development capability for three days in exchange for $1…

Cassam talks about how the transparency account doesn’t support epistemically immediate. He defends the views about that the belief of P is epistemically inferential and therefore not immediate, which he bases it the transparency. Cassam starts by defining the notion of transparency and gives three questions in which he plans to answer. Then he continues on to talk about passive thoughts and epistemically immediate definition. In this paper, I shall argue that the transparency account does…

call the argument of transparency, attempts to support the first major tenant of Cartesian substance dualism: There are substances of two fundamentally different kinds in the world, mental substances and material substances—or minds and bodies. The essential nature of a mind is to think, be conscious, and engage in other mental activities; the essence of a body is to have spatial extensions (a bulk) and be located in space. (Kim 34) First, I will explain the argument of transparency and the…

similar legislation. The price transparency issue first introduced in Congress in 2006, which was ignored as it was not a serious issue during that time. Similar legislation was rejected when Health subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) was unsure of the unintended consequences of too much price transparency. In 2012, the healthcare price transparency act was never made its way from the committee on the basis of lack of evidence that transparency works to cut the…

find in Michel Foucault’s notion of Parrehsia. Can speaking true bring transparency? Here the question is -would this transparency serve to fight the secret by revelation or to eradicate impulses and secrets and not giving them more space to exist? Hamlet wants to get rid of lie, the lie world of Elsinore, even from the grip of Gertrude. He believes that transparency and decency go hand in hand. If decency is the rule, transparency is the way of monitoring. There is question of erasing and…

their lives. In the novel, it is believed that transparency is the only true way to reach a utopian society. A debate that sort of arose within the book is whether privacy should be a bigger priority in the digital age. However, Mae is so wrapped up in the idea that transparency would lead to a utopia and the best form of democracy, that she feels that this trumps the need for privacy. My view on whether full-transparency is a good thing…