Post in Writing governance statements for e-participation projects

2007 Jun 15 06:25 UTC

Everyone who contributes on our site, whether citizen journalist,
councillor, individual, police officer, camfpaigner, does so in their own
name and everyone knows who that is.  I think it fair that if accountability
is expected, everyone should be prepared to be accountable for what they put
in the public domain and why.  We find this works very well in every way on
our local community network at www.oncom.org.uk and is the only real
guarantee of achieving credibility, courtesy and effectiveness.  This has
always been our policy.  Those who aren't prepared to stand up and be
counted don't participate, which is their choice.  When people are
publishing direct, they must do it in their own name because it is their
responsibility, not Oncom's.  Oncom provides the platform;  the people
participating write the script.