text: **2.1. Wikileaks and the Open Data movement**
  During the 2010/2011 winter the discussions around the Cablegate and other documents published 
  
  by Wikileaks have, in some occasion, included hostility towards Open Data. This is a consequence 
  
  of a more or less conscious mixing of the two themes, because in a very general sense, both Open 
  
  Data and Wikileaks are about transparency, accountability and democracy. 
  
  As far as this study is concerned, two conclusions can be drawn from the Cablegate/Wikileaks 
  
  scandal. 
  
  The first is that, in practice, it is necessary to find and equilibrium between secrecy and 
  
  transparency whenever government activities are concerned. Citizens must be able to know what 
  
  the state is*actually*doing but sometimes, be it for careful evaluation of all the alternatives or 
  
  because of security, it must be possible to work behind closed doors, at least temporarily. We'll 
  
  come back to this point later in this report. 
  
  The second conclusion is that, while certainly both Open Data and Wikileaks are about openness 
  
  and transparency in politics, not only there are deep differences between the two ideas but, in our 