Mitchell Baker Quotes

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.

The fundamentals of the token model are valuable and powerful. They allow communities to govern themselves, their economics, and rally a community in powerful ways that will allow open systems to flourish in a way that was previously impossible.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing.

Open rules! Open standards! Open findings! Open precedents!

Transparency has long been a rare commodity in international affairs. But today, the forces of technology are ushering in a new age of openness that would have been unthinkable just a few decades ago. Governments, journalists, and nongovernmental organ­izations (NGOs) can now harness a flood of open-source information, drawn from commercial surveillance satellites, drones, smartphones, and computers, to reveal hidden activities in contested areas—from Ukraine to Syria to the South China Sea.

The era of roadside decisions, declarations have gone. My government's decisions will be guided by teamwork and consultations.

It's time to elevate the debate in this country and allow the public to access the same neutral, unbiased, nonpartisan information that we in Congress rely on every day.

A lot of the foundational philosophical approaches of tech leaders are actually all about decentralization of power.

If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.

The key message is I'm always trying to hope the Singaporeans will understand, is a question of every government must be... examined based on certain very fundamental principles to have a good government. You must have transparency.

I am a firm believer that transparency goes hand in hand with collective intelligence.

Our plan is absolutely clear. It's organization of new elections, fair and transparent.

No minister should be able to whisk through Parliament agreements that are negotiated behind closed doors.

I have really become a huge believer in the power of open source.

It's important to be transparent, to remove secrecy from issues of equality.