IDCDC
About this network: what we are and are not
IDCDC is an independent, non-partisan, peer-to-peer education and development network of Iranian diaspora communities. Members and contributors of every background teach, learn and build together under one charter. It is not a university, a school or a degree-granting body. It does not act for any government, party, corporation or religious authority.
01What IDCDC is
The Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council (IDCDC) is a federation of Chapters and communities of practice (the charter’s Colleges) under one charter.
It serves Iranian diaspora communities worldwide: every language, ethnicity, faith and generation, by self-identification.
Members share what they know, review each other’s work and build programmes together, country by country.
Rests on: Charter, content/network/organisation.json, Decision D26
02What IDCDC is not
IDCDC is not a university, a school or a degree-granting body.
It does not act for or on behalf of any government, state body, political party, corporation or religious authority.
It claims no recognition, partnership or endorsement that the charter’s organs have not recorded.
Rests on: Decision D27, docs/governance/GOVERNANCE_SAFETY_AND_LEGAL.md, Charter
03How it works
The Academy is the network’s peer-to-peer learning space. Its faculties, departments and disciplines arrange courses by subject.
Every figure carries its measure, year, source and label. Contested subjects show every side with sources.
Things that are not running yet say forming or in preparation.
Rests on: Decision D27, docs/editorial/EDITORIAL_STANDARD.md
04Disclaimers
Each statement says what it rests on.
Status
IDCDC is not a university and grants no degrees. A completion record is not a certificate or a qualification.
The Academy is IDCDC’s peer-to-peer learning space. It is not a university, a school or a degree-granting body, and no education authority accredits it.
Faculty, department and discipline name how courses are arranged by subject. They are not institutions or bodies of teaching staff.
People who teach or review are instructors, course authors, expert reviewers, stewards and contributors. No academic title is given.
A completion record shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification, and no employer or authority is said to recognise it.
Rests on: Decision D27, content/network/credentials.json, Decision D12
Independence
IDCDC acts for no government, corporation, party or faith body.
IDCDC is independent. It does not act for or on behalf of any government, state body, corporation, political party, faction, armed actor or religious authority.
Public bodies, standards bodies and institutions are named only to identify their published work. Naming them implies no relationship.
No partnership, recognition or endorsement exists unless the charter’s organs record it. Pending things say forming or in preparation.
Rests on: Charter, docs/governance/GOVERNANCE_SAFETY_AND_LEGAL.md, content/network/membership.json
Peer-to-peer learning
Courses are written and reviewed by peers. Outlines are drafts until expert review.
Courses are peer-to-peer. Contributors of every background write, review, translate and teach them.
An outline is a draft until an expert reviewer has checked it. Teaching starts only after review.
Contributors are named only with their consent. The organisation is the author of record.
Translations drafted with AI are labelled until a native reviewer checks them.
Rests on: Decision D23, Decision D19, docs/curriculum/CURRICULUM.md
Evidence
Every figure carries its measure, year, source and label. Unknown is shown as unknown.
Every figure carries its measure, year, source and label: verified, secondary or to verify.
Figures of different measures are never added up. Where no source counts something, the page says so.
Primary sources come first: the census table or the report, not an article about it.
Rests on: docs/editorial/EDITORIAL_STANDARD.md, docs/site/VERIFICATION.md
Contested subjects
Contested subjects show every side with sources. Nothing here endorses a position.
Contested subjects name every side with its sources. Claims are attributed to the people who make them.
Fact is kept apart from interpretation. Communities are named by their own names, with alternatives recorded.
No party, candidate, faction or armed actor is endorsed.
Rests on: docs/governance/GOVERNANCE_SAFETY_AND_LEGAL.md, docs/editorial/EDITORIAL_STANDARD.md
Not professional advice
Nothing here is legal, immigration, medical, mental health, financial or tax advice.
Courses and pages give general information for learning.
They are not legal, immigration, medical, mental health, financial or tax advice.
For a decision about your own situation, ask a qualified professional who may practise where you live.
In an emergency, call your local emergency number.
Rests on: content/site/copy.json, docs/governance/GOVERNANCE_SAFETY_AND_LEGAL.md
Safety
No member data is shown on these pages. Taking part is protected.
No member data is kept in these pages or shown on them.
Profiles, group memberships and course enrolments are private by default. Every sensitive field is optional and never public.
These pages load no third-party scripts, fonts, embeds or trackers. Map tiles are the one stated exception.
Your language choice stays in your browser: local storage pf-lang and the first-party cookie pf_lang, kept for one year. It is a preference only and is never used for tracking. Choose another language at any time, or clear it with your browser’s site data.
Rests on: docs/safety/THREAT_MODEL.md, Decision D22, content/site/copy.json
External sources and links
Outside sources keep their own licences. A listing or a link is not an endorsement.
Records from outside sources are metadata and links only. Titles stay as published.
They come only from sources approved in the source register, each named with its licence.
A listed record is not reviewed, adopted or endorsed. Read the original before relying on it.
Rests on: feeds/sources.json, docs/site/CITATIONS.md
Translations
Translations are drafts until a native reviewer checks them. English is the source text.
Pages in other languages are translations of the English source.
Translations drafted with AI are published as labelled drafts. Native reviewers check them.
Where a translation and the English page differ, the English page is the source.
Rests on: Decision D19, Decision D20, docs/site/TRANSLATION.md
05Terms used here
Each term in one sentence.
- Academy
- IDCDC’s peer-to-peer learning space, open to contributors of every background; it is not a university and grants no degrees.
- community of practice
- A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, toolkits and the field itself; the charter calls it a College.
- completion record
- A record of what was studied and assessed in a course or pathway; it is not a certificate or a qualification.
- local Chapter cell
- A charter unit that organises lawful local cooperation in a city, campus or professional network.
- Chapter
- The charter’s unit for one country programme, adapting the shared method to local law and local risk.
- to verify
- A label: the item is listed as found and still needs checking against its source.
- verified
- A label: the item matches its primary record, such as the official table or the Crossref entry.
- secondary
- A label: the figure comes from a reliable report about the source, not from the source itself.
- faculty
- A broad area of knowledge that arranges the Academy’s courses by subject; it is not an institution or a body of teaching staff.
- department
- A group of related disciplines within a faculty; it is an arrangement of subjects, not an institution.
- discipline
- One subject of the Academy, with its fields, courses and communities of practice.
- field
- A narrower topic within a discipline.
- pathway
- A sequence of courses for a purpose, ending in a capstone; it leads to a completion record, not a qualification.
- course
- A set of lessons with an outline, written and reviewed by peers; it carries no academic credit.
- achievement
- A record that you completed a course or took part; it does not attest to competence for any role.
- steward
- A contributor who keeps a field’s map of courses, sources and contributors current; it is a role, not a title.
- contributor
- Anyone who writes, reviews, translates or teaches here, from any background, named only with consent.
- outline
- A course plan with outcomes, modules and assessment, written before the lessons and reviewed before teaching starts.
- draft
- A text awaiting review; it can change before it is used.
- forming
- Being set up: nobody is listed as a member and nothing runs yet.
- proposed
- A proposal only, which exists once the governing body the charter names decides.
06Legal terms
Sanctions
Membership, donation and course terms each carry a sanctions clause.
The organisation follows the sanctions and export-control laws that apply to it and to its payment providers.
Payments and donations go only through providers that screen against sanctions lists. Freely available public pages stay public.
Rests on: Decision D26, docs/governance/GOVERNANCE_SAFETY_AND_LEGAL.md
07Corrections
Corrections are logged in public.
- Report an error
- Report an error
- Contact
- iranians.global/contact/