Editing Healthy signal infrastructure

'''Healthy signal infrastructure''' is for all [[Green purposes]] not just [[healthy buying infrastructure|buying]].  The more we can do to promote [[hardware standard]]s that decrease the [[hardware requirements]] we must ourselves deploy to support [[Consumerium Services]], and [[modular hardware]] to cut [[e-waste]], the easier it will be to cooperate with other [[essential projects]].

''Ensuring that [[Publish Wiki]], [[Research Wiki]] and [[Develop Wiki]] set important standards and apply very tough [[institutional buying criteria]] is the third most important responsibility of the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]].''

Non-buying purposes the '''HSI''' can be used for:  [[voting]], [[dating]], [[rendezvous]] like a [[flash mob]], [[orienteering game]]s, [[betting]] and [[investing]] (only healthy to a limited degree, and there is no way to tell betting from investing, period), and almost any kind of [[mobile work]] like [[sales]] or [[transport]] or [[sustainable forestry]].  Of course, any kind of forestry or fishing or investing or sales or transport that is not sustainable is not healthy, so, a truly healthy infrastructure just doesn't help anyone do these things, or, better yet, it charges more to use it if you are using more or damaging more [[styles of capital]] than [[sustainable use]]rs would require.  

In the ideal case, the [[Consumerium Services]] and even the [[hardware requirements]] would be delivered for free to all users anywhere in the world, and this would be paid for by charging other users of the same infrastructure for their other uses - charging ''more'' for those doing more damage to Earth.  This is one option for how to set up the [[Consumerium License]].

Probable features of the HSI:

*supports [[audio]] connections primarily
*uses available radio spectrum in the standard bands (1880-1900 MHz, 1900-1920 MHz, or 1910-1930 MHz)
*up to 100,000 users in any km?
*various applications can share the spectrum, e.g. voice and data, or public and private applications.
**[[DECT]]-based, moving to [[IMT 2000]] [[standard]]s and [[UMTS]]
**"2 billion users worldwide by the year 2010. This market will be worth over 1 trillion US dollars to mobile operators over the next ten years" [http://www.gsm-technology.com/gsm.php/en,unlock,subpage_id,technologie_UMTS.html]
**cooperating DECT/[[GSM]]
**cooperating DECT/[[802.11]]
**[[802.11]] only, especially [[802.11g]] (much higher data rate, probably only existing [[POTS]] quality telephone service)
*[[ISO 14000]] compliant (see also FCA/19011 below)
**cuts [[e-waste]], no [[tantallum]]
*'''self-funding'''
**no relying on [[volunteer]] effort (big burnout risk, see [[worst cases]])
**no relying on [[donation]]s (big corruption risk, see [[worst cases]])
*incremental
**relies on existing [[pager]] and [[phone]] and [[radio]] wherever possible
**[[modular hardware]] based on relevant [[hardware standard]]
*sustainable
**low or no [[e-waste]], no [[toxic waste]] at all
**[[product take-back]] by manufacturers
*accountable
**[[full cost accounting]] for whole [[product lifecycle]] using [[ISO 19011]]
**leads to [[Transparent Consumerium]]
*maintainable
**upgraded fairly uniformly in "turns" on regular basis (like every four years) etc.
**leads to [[Distributed Consumerium]] that can be run by [[developing nation]]s

== references ==

*[http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_8/critical/ a social ecology of wireless communication] including a great [[worn device]], a super-cheap ecologically sane [[cell phone]].  We don't know if it runs [[Python]] yet, but we can ask.

*[[IMT 2000]]]
**[http://www.gsm-technology.com/gsm.php/en,unlock,subpage_id,technologie_DECT.html DECT specs]
**[http://www.gsm-technology.com/gsm.php/en,unlock,subpage_id,technologie_Bluetooth.html Bluetooth specs]
**[http://www.gsm-technology.com/gsm.php/en,unlock,subpage_id,technologie_UMTS.html UMTS specs]
**[http://www.gsm-technology.com/gsm.php/en,unlock,subpage_id,technologie_WAP.html WA specs]
**[http://www.gsm-technology.com/gsm.php/en,unlock,subpage_id,technologie_GPRS.html GPRS]