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Wiktionary - A spin off from wikipedia. The free dictionary and thesaurus in every language if it gets done someday. GFDL also. Not much happening there now.

http://www.responsibleshopper.org/ A project run by Co-op America that has very convergent goal with us and they actually have a DB online with 350 big companies investigated. Truely worth a visit.

http://www.disinfopedia.org/ - a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. And yes, it's in the GFDL part of the world (Running Wikipedia Phase III)

http://meta.wikipedia.org - A Wiki where the Wikipedia Software and Syntax development is coordinated.

m:Geospatial reference

m:spacetime_DTD

Important: Above efforts, if completed, would greatly advance the development of Consumerium and create greater w:synergy and information interusability between Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Consumerium and other future Wiki/GFDL resources

JXTA - Java P2P service platform: secure bandwidth, processing power, storage and backup sharing

GNU Barcode program Generates postscript files of UPC, EAN, ISBN, CODE39 and other encoding standards

http://www.free-project.org/ The GNU.Free e-democracy software development has been discontinued, but the software is still available. It's in Java and could be useful in governing campaigns. See also voting system options described in wikipedia (very comprehensive, with examples, tradeoffs of different systems).

http://globalgreens.org - mailing lists automatically set up for any Green Party - or other groups obeying Global Greens Charter

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 * http://www.disinfopedia.org/ -  a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. And yes, it's in the [[GFDL]] part of the world (Running Wikipedia Phase III)
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-==Standards and reference==
-* [http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/main.htm UN/LOCODE] by [[UNECE]] UN/LOCODE provides code elements for more than 36.000 names of ports, airports, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport in 234 countries.
-:+ gateway into [[ISO 3166-1]] (country codes) and [[ISO 3166-2]] (subdivision codes)
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 ==Technology==