Definition of TOP

[Markus Schatten]

Dear group members

I translated a part of the General definition of TOP we developed in TiAktiv
and posted it on the wiki (http://top.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/TOP). Any
comments, ideas, critiques and suggestions are truly wellcome ;-)

Here's the c/p

1. Transparent Open Public Action
The categories of transparent, open and public action are interconnected i.e.
it's not an exclusive classification. Still, they supplement each other since
none of them embraces the whole field needed by this idea.

1.1. Transparent Action
Transparent action is action which is transparent to its participants, i.e.
intelligible, clear and understandable.
If a person, organization or option wants to act transparent it has to ensure
full transparency of its action. This includes publishing, explaining and
documenting appropriate documents of its vision, mission and goal statements
of action including plans and strategies on how to accomplish them. This
documents also include discussion templates, results, conclusions etc. The
main goal of transparent action is a elaborated, total and integral decision
making process? transparent and available to the public.
A person, organization or option should have a public forum where the public
can comment the persons, organizations or options action. This forum must
have a fully non censored public part which is continuously and in a line
on-line available. Information on this forum should be public according to
the definition in this document and allways available for later references.

1.2. Open Action
Open action is such action on which the public has influence i.e. action which
can be changed by the public under the condition that the result of such a
change is open again. Open action gives every person, option or organization
the opportunity of process involvement. If some person, option or
organization wants to act open, it has to insure continuous contact and
discussion with the public. This is in accordance with the concept of a forum
where the public has the opportunity to discus and where every single
individual is involved through a clearly distinguishable criteria. Every
document created through transparent and public action is thus openstanding.
Every person, option or organization should take every meaningful critique,
suggestion, comment and idea of the public, discus it and, if they find it
usefull, include it an the appropriate document.

1.3 Public Action
Public action is such action which is available to the public, allways and at
will and which is oriented to the public. If a person, option or organization
wants to act public it has to insure continuous public availability of
information about their action.
Public available information is information which is publicly available in a
clearly articulated form. This information should be available to everyone
interested in it over the Internet. This information can be available through
other mediae but the Internet is obligatory.
Any official action should be documented in the appropriate document.

2. Conclusion
A person, option or organization is TOP and can thus become a certificate? if
its action is transparent, open and public according to this document and has
an elaborated integral decision making process?.

3. References
TiAktiv: Osnovna definicija v.0.09, on-line
http://www.tiaktiv.hr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=51
Note
This is only a part of the general definition of TOP. The whole definition
will hopefully be on-line soon. This document is openstanding which means
it's allways open for discussion.

Best regards

--
Markus Schatten, dipl. inf.
e-mail: markus....@foi.hr
http://www.tiaktiv.hr

[MG]

Splendid!

What a little translation can do...
I think the content is fine with me.

And now we have a Wiki too!

Great job!

[illegale]

Yes!

Great job Markus! Great Wiki too!

ATB,
Gale

[Markus Schatten]

Thanks for the flowers guys ;-)

Now go on and populate the wiki! :-D