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Glossary
17 defined terms from the charter, the standards and the platform's method, each with its source.
Knowledge spine · Glossary · terms
Glossary
17 defined terms from the charter, the standards and the platform's method, each with its source.
17 defined terms from the charter, the standards and the platform's method, each with its source.
Charter
6 termsAnyone who accepts the charter: the diaspora across generations, newcomers, students and people in transit. Take part in Chapters and communities of practice, propose work, and stand for service roles after screening.
Charter, Charter Part IV, 4.4Members credentialed for competence in their field and for integrity. Lead peer review, author standards and mentor, while the credential is current.
Charter, Charter Part IV, 4.4Lawful organisations that align with the charter: associations, schools, professional bodies. Take part through named representatives, under conflict disclosure.
Charter, Charter Part IV, 4.4People or organisations working with the Council on a limited scope. No governance rights.
Charter, Charter Part IV, 4.4Participants for a set time and purpose. No governance rights unless the charter grants them.
Charter, Charter Part IV, 4.4The only form of support the networks accept (decision D64). No donations in any form.
Decision D64States
2 termsA Community Cell, Chapter or programme that is being formed and is not yet chartered or recognised. The charter's organs recognise; a page never does.
Charter terms; Platform Directive v1 §1.5A page, guide, dossier or service that is planned and not yet written or reviewed. Its page shows the gap as a gap.
Platform Directive v1 §1.5Labels
3 termsA figure or claim read at its primary source by a steward or checkers from at least two communities.
Platform Directive v1 §1.2; contributions registerA figure or claim cited through a reviewed work rather than read at its primary source.
Platform Directive v1 §1.2A figure or claim whose source has not yet been read; it stays in the verification queue.
Platform Directive v1 §1.2Method
2 termsWhat a figure counts: a stock (people at one date), a flow (movement over a period), remittances (money), a proxy (a country of origin standing in for a community). Figures of different measures are never added.
Platform Directive v1 §1.2 and §3A measure that stands in for the community because statistics do not count it directly, for example a country of origin. A proxy is named as a proxy.
Platform Directive v1 §3Standards
4 termsThe United Nations Statistics Division's standard country and area codes for statistical use; the networks list countries and areas by it.
UN Statistics Division, Standard country or area codes (M49)The ISO standard for codes of country subdivisions; first-level units carry their ISO 3166-2 code, read from the iso-codes package with its version and check date.
ISO 3166-2OCHA's Common Operational Datasets for administrative boundaries; the networks' first source for subdivisions where it exists.
OCHA Humanitarian Data ExchangeA cell of Uber's open hexagonal hierarchical geospatial index; the networks aggregate pages, bodies and events per cell, never people.
H3 (Apache 2.0)Places
United Arab Emiratescountry · AREAustraliacountry · AUSCanadacountry · CANGermanycountry · DEUFrancecountry · FRAUnited Kingdomcountry · GBR