Consumerium is a not-for-profit project, developed
under
GFDL
licence, using
Wiki-software, to develop
free software and
infrastructure for storage, transport and
display of product information to
consumers and
feedback to the producers to enhance the consumer
experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as
hospitable as possible in the future.
Disinfopedia and
Recyclopedia
are related projects running a
Mediawiki.
:
Consumerium is proud to do
most of its research work in Wikipedia to avoid redundancy and boost synergy. == Short timeline of
Consumerium==
April
26 2002 Initial website
describing the concept was published March 10 2003 Consumerium gets wikified and GFDL'd March 15 2003
First GPL'd code snipplets are
released June 8
2003 Preparations for getting
registered in Sourceforge get underway. July 23 2003 ConsuML
gets registered in Sourceforge under GNU GPL ==List
of
Wikipedia
articles listed as
research work in Consumerium==
==Research in
Wikipedia==
===Editors needed:===
List
of company registers (Currently listing FI,IE,NL,PK,SE)
List of trade unions (Currently listing
only UK, AU, FI, some of FR, NL) List of employer associations
(Currently a stub with some info on AU, FI, FR, ME, NL, UK)
List of
tariffs Lists of companies List of who
owns what (growing) Economy of Earth (contains some interesting
stuff, but it's not organised) Mandatory
labelling SA8000
Material input per unit of
service List of packaging companies
List of traded commodities
===Yet to be
started:===
List of advertisement
agencies (by country) (doesn't exist now) List of association registers
(doesn't exist now) List of ethical funds (doesn't exist
now) List of
non-governmental organisations (doesn't exist now)
===Fairly complete:===
List of professions (very complete)
List of stock exchanges (very
complete) List of supermarkets List of
reference tables Please check this out if you can think of some
list that is not included here ===
Wikipedia:Wikiproject:===
===Other articles:===
Fair trade Safe trade Arms trade Global EAN Party
Information Register (GEPIR) GLN (doesn't exist now) Gross Global
Product (doesn't exist now) Ethical investing
Resin_identification_code (codes
for plastic
packaging and their
recycling)
SSCC (doesn't exist now)
Trade block
Trade bloc
consisting of lots of ecoregions Voting system ==List
of fairly complete wikipedia articles related to Consumerium==
(From http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/Wikipedia. If these
interest you, you might want to check Consumerium out.)
Understanding buying choices and their effects:
Conversion of
units GTIN
EAN (European Article Numbering)
UPC (Universal Product Code)
List
of countries List of timelines List of
reference tables List of stock exchanges
List of supermarkets Commodity markets
- buying on the largest scale Money - what it is and how it works, commodifying
everything even you Arms trade (needs a lot of work!)
Understanding moral choices as expressed in the marketplace:
list of ethics articles - why would
you care what you buy? Globalization makes it harder to know what
your money does Transparency International tries
to make it easier to find out Greenpeace has six campaigns to affect buying
choices, and advocates Accounting reform which would make more
liabilities visible to you Full cost accounting in particular
would make waste visible Productivism assumes that everything humans
make is good Consumerism assumes that everything humans want
is good Directly relevant to consumerium mission, making
actual moral buying choices:
Slow Food - tied for third most relevant? buy
local, organic, etc. Sweatshop - tied for third most relevant? often
the target of Boycott - second most relevant? usually shorter term
than Moral purchasing describes most exactly the
consumerium.org mission local food ==External links==
http://www.consumerium.org/wiki/ is the R&D wiki for the
project and it's running Wikipedia Phase III software
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