Community norms

To ensure this remains a fun and constructive space to connect and share with others, we ask that everyone follow a few simple guidelines.

These guidelines are updated as we learn how to best support the telecentre.org community.  If you would like to contribute ideas, please send us feedback.

• Fill out your profile and upload a photo — This community help us to connect, share, and get to know each other. The first step toward this is to create a wonderful profile page and upload a photo of yourself (or your organization) — photos sized to 175x175 pixels look best. Seeing each others' faces is important and transparency is one of our core values. Complete profile information allows people to network and help each other. Our Community Facilitators will new members to complete your profile and upload a photo before they approve them
• Be respectful and constructive — telecentre.org is an open and inclusive public space for sharing knowledge and making connections. Profiles, comments, and discussions are visible by anyone viewing this website, with the exception of content within groups marked as private. Please be respectful and constructive with your comments. If you would like to send private comments to any member you can add them as your friend and then send them a message.
• English for public communication — telecentre.org has online communities in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. This community shares content and discussions in English. If content is only available in another language, please provide an English summary. If you would like to share content and discussions in Spanish, French, or Arabic, please feel free to join these communities. (Tip: If you use the same email address to create your profile on another community site it will be easier for you to move from community to community. See Getting Started.)

A few more things you should know about the community...

• We use the word "telecentre" in the broadest sense — "Telecentre" is a general term that includes any public place where people can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies that enable them to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others while they develop essential digital skills. Community multimedia centres, community technolgy centres, telecottages, village information centres, etc. — what these places are called doesn't matter, what's important is a shared commitment to grassroots technology access for development. Learn more on Wikipedia.
• We reserve the right to ban members — To protect this community, telecentre.org may decide to ban any member found to exhibit inappropriate behavior, defined by uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting, or otherwise making available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, pornographic, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, otherwise objectionable or inconsistent with the purpose of this website. Members exhibiting such behavior will be sent one warning and be asked to delete the offensive content. If the behavior continues, the member will be banned and all of their content will be deleted. Ning, telecentre.org's community website service provider, also has the right to ban any member violating its terms of service. If you have been banned from telecentre.org and you think it is in error please contact us.

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