open-washing
English
Noun
open-washing (uncountable)
- Alternative form of openwashing
- 2014, Sonia Khan, Joseph Foti, Aligning Supply and Demand for Better Governance: Open Data in the Open Government Partnership:
- More importantly, ensuring that there are channels for the articulation of demand can help to avoid one of the bigger risks to a transparency and accountability agenda: “open-washing” or passing off the release of inconsequential government-held data as transparency.
- 2015, Rory McGreal, “OER to MOOCs: In Defence of Open”, in International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, volume 16, number 5:
- The most popular form of xMOOCs (the mostly video-based, computerised courses delivered by Coursera, Udacity etc.) have been accused of “open-washing” – claiming to be open but resting on copyright-restricted “closed” content rather than using an open licence.
- 2020, Arwid Lund, Mariano Zukerfeld, “Profiting from Open Access Publishing”, in Corporate Capitalism's Use of Openness:
- Finally, the analysis shows that Elsevier profits indirectly and ideologically from openness by open-washing enclosed and toll-accessed subscription articles in hybrid journals with its OA-publishing.
Verb
open-washing
- present participle of open-wash