About this network: what we are and are not

The Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council 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.

The Council 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.

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.

Each statement says what it rests on.

The Council is not a university and grants no degrees. A completion record is not a certificate or a qualification.

The Academy is the Council’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.

The Council acts for no government, corporation, party or faith body.

The Council 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Council accepts no donations in any form. That covers money, gifts, goods, crowdfunding and recurring giving.

Sponsorship is the only form of support. An institution or company that wishes to sponsor sends an enquiry through the contact page. No payment is taken on any page.

A sponsor may be named as a sponsor where it agrees and the Council’s organs record the arrangement. A sponsor receives no member data, no endorsement and no say in what is published, taught or decided. Neutrality rules apply to every sponsor. Sponsorship terms are in preparation.

Membership 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 go only through providers that screen against sanctions lists. Freely available public pages stay public.

Where the work is planned, where decisions are recorded, and the scenes, stories and story library.

• Work programme

  Workstreams by phase and status.

• Decisions

  The register of decisions, open and taken.

• Explore

  The scenes and stories, each open for review.

• Library

  The catalogue of the story library.