Digital Etiquette

Digital Etiquette

Digital Etiquette

  10 points of netiquette

1. When communicating or connecting with people electronically always be respectful . Treat others as you want to be treated.
2. Don’t stray from your norms and values act online as you will in real life.
3. Know your environment (cyberspace) and act or discuss accordingly.
4. Respect peoples time online, say what you want to say and don’t overload on information, people are always time limited.
5. Online physical appearance don’t matter that much so it is important to ‘look good’ with your language usage and writing.
6. Share your expert knowledge , communicate and share about subjects you have knowledge or is interested in.
7. People sometimes disagree online but it is important to control these ‘wars’ and look for a positive outcome.
8. Respect privacy, people block or privatize certain information for a reason and it is important to keep your nose out of such information.
9. It is easy to be cruel or mean when you’re sitting behind a computer screen with anti-hack software, this power you have is a privilege and should not be abused.
10. Just like in real life people make mistakes and it is important to forgive people when they make these mistakes even online.

Digital Code of Conduct

1. Behave in a ethical way in the digital world as I do the real world.
2. Use technology in an appropriate manner.
3. DO NOT break any laws or rules dealing with the use of technology.
4. Be responsible when using technology.
5. Respect yourself and others when using technology.
6. Do not use technology in a harmful or degrading  manner.
7. Have consideration of, and respect for, school and peer technological resources and use them appropriately.
8. Act safely in the digital world to prevent disruption or harm to myself and others.
9. Have a balanced, healthy lifestyle relationship with technology.
10. Protect yourself and others by reporting digital abuse of people and property.
11. Ensure the privacy of your own information.
12. Do not invade anyone’s digital profile and do not abuse it.(www.nisd.net/digitalcitizen/sec_digcit/etiquette)

Did you Know

Penalties
1. When you do not adhere to these requirements you will not be able to use this institutes technology any longer.
2. Based on your actions and the seriousness thereof, a hearing will be held to determine whether or not you will be allowed to finish your course at this institute.

3. If your actions has serious consequences you will be asked to pay a fine to correct your wrongs.

 Penalties for failing these points

• Blocking people from certain groups, sites etc.
• Billing people misbehaving
• Human rights laws against cyber-bullying
• Banning people permanently from certain groups or sites etc.
• give people the opportunity to report bad behaviour
• Having people agree to terms and conditions before entering certain sites to protect the site, group etc. against court cases or false accusations.
• Educate people on netiquette
• Copyright laws and anti-plagiarism sites or groups keeping watch.

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Enforcing and Managing
In the beginning of each school year the Digital Code of Conduct will be discussed with the students and on the registration contract both student and parent/guardian has to read and sign this. The devices at the college will be kept an eye on for any suspicious doings from the students

How to enforce and manage this in your Business

1. Block certain sites on the computers
2. Restrict internet usage
3. Fees for disobeying
4. Cameras tracing what people watch on their computers( IT business)
5. Have employees sign a contract agreeing to internet usage laws etc.
6. Applications that control netiquette on business computers such as Custom Cloud etc.