I quickly learned why there isn't more of this kind of thing: transparency is a lot of work! 100+ hours of work later, plus dozens of hours from others, and the strategic plan was finally finished and ratified by the board.

Some forms of transparency are cheap. Holding e-meetings in publicly-visible places, for instance.

Secrecy is probably my #1 beef with the Singularity Institute.

It is trying to build a superintelligence, and the pitch is: "trust us"? WTF? Surely you folks have got to be kidding.

That is the exact same pitch that the black-hats are forced into using.