open-washing

English

Noun

open-washing (uncountable)

1. 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

1. present participle and gerund of open-wash