Openness is less an on/off switch and more a set of toggles adjusted for different contexts and cases. Even the openness scorecard concept (http://wiki.freeculture.org/Open_University_Report_Cards) for a university builds in these contexts for openness and scores the institution based on where it sets those toggles, institutionally.

Transparency
- visibility
- participation
- accountability
Usability
- familiarity
- utility
- memorability
- shareability
- adaptability

Accessibility
- affordability
- availability
- findabilty
- inclusivity
- flexibility

Using
Sharing
Enabling
Engaging
Understanding

Is what I am doing:
- visible?
- accountable?
- participatory?
- shareable?
- usable?
- adaptable?
- accessible?

Exploring  - The cognitive and affective abilities needed to navigate and  understand the community, culture and digital life. The World Wide Web  offers and provides opportunity to use various digital spaces to learn  about, question and evaluate human perceptions and actions.
Authoring  - Being expressive, creative and constructive on the World Wide Web  while articulating individual thoughts in the global, digital exchange  of methods and resources and respecting the creative work of others.
Connecting  – Communicating about and networking in digital life while  participating in a respectful manner. Recognizing and adhering to the  ethics of online communities.
Building  - Confdently and creatively attempting to solve technical and social  problems through incremental and iterative approaches. Using the ability  to think on multiple levels of abstraction and modularization to  develop material.
Protecting  - Safely and securely participating in self-expression and civic duties  in the Information Age. Understanding that the protection of the World  Wide Web as a free and open public resource is a civic responsibility  and the affective ability to claim solidarity for protective actions.