Post in Writing governance statements for e-participation projects

2007 Jun 13 10:45 UTC

Hi,

By governance statements I mean things like "Conditions of Use" and
"Privacy Policy" - guidelines to encourage good manners in the forum (or
whatever), as well as rules to support moderation. Hmm I should add
legal disclaimers as well.

I'm making a kind of list of these kind of statements and would be glad
if you could help me - by sending examples or URLs.

I'm especially interested in how these came about. Who was involved in
writing them? Do they change/grow over time? Has anyone managed to
shrink them?

(Ross Ferguson's comments about making it clear who moderated the
Westminster Parliament's Forums are interesting here too. Was that on
another list Ross?)

ITC have always favoured short sweet here. E.g. from the Highland Youth
Voice website:
Conditions of Use
Please take care of yourself by not putting any contact information in
your comment - don't give anyone's email address, home address or phone
number. Please take care of your readers by writing with respect and
trying to make your point clearly and briefly. Comments should be less
than 150 words. We will remove comments if we think they contain
offensive or abusive language or if they could be libellous. If you want
to say something but you have a good reason to be afraid to put your
name by your comment, you can fill in a special form, which will stop
your name being attached to the comment. This will be checked by someone
before it goes on to the site.
Inclusion of any statement or comment in this site does not indicate
that the Highland Wellbeing Alliance or the ITC endorse it or take any
responsibility for it.
http://www.highlandyouthvoice.org/YourVoice/conditions.asp

(ok I am asking you to do my work, but I'm hoping we'll also build a
useful resource this way too)

Ella Smith

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