. With more information easily accessible, what are the challenges to achieving
effective transparency by governments and nonprofit organizations?
. Consider the perspective that today’s high levels of transparency are at least partially responsible for degraded policy making because elected officials have less freedom
to make compromises through back-room deals. Is this perspective credible? And if so,
where is the balance between the fundamental merits of openness and the need to get
things done?
. Identify and describe an instance, either from personal experience or from news
accounts, where government or nonprofit transparency changed your perception of an
organization.
Was the resulting change positive or negative?
