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    == Lists of essential efforts and projects ==
    == Lists of essential efforts and projects ==
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    '''Essential efforts and projects''' are [[interesting projects]] we can't really ignore.  They are doing things that we have to do, and we are far better off working with them, than ignoring them.  In many cases they will be doing something before we do it here, and maybe better.  So tracking them closely is useful.
    *[[GFDL Corpus]] despite the various thugs trying to control it for their own commercial interests - [[Wikipedia]] [http://www.wikipedia.org/ (.org)], [[Simple English Wikipedia]] [http://simple.wikipedia.org/ simple.wikipedia(.org)], [[Wikidata]] [http://wikidata.org (.org)], [[Wikibooks]] [http://wikibooks.org (.org)] (especially [[Cookbook]] mjam ) and [[Wiktionary]] [http://wikitionary.org (.org)]
    * [[Translatewiki]] [http://translatewiki.net/ (.net)] for doing / receiving translations of wikis and other softwares.
    * http://www.responsibleshopper.org/ A project run by [http://www.coopamerica.org Co-op America] that has very convergent goal with us.  They actually have a DB online with 350 big companies investigated. '''Truly worth a visit.'''
    *[[Wikitravel]] [http://www.wikitravel.org/ (.org)] - a travel guide - boycotts should include not going places where people do rotten things, since tourism has an eco-impact and sends messages of approval too. [[Licensing|Licensed]] under the [[Creative Commons licenses|Creative Commons license]]
    *'''[[Internet UPC Database]] http://upcdatabase.com/  - database of [[manufacturer]]s and [[product]]s with [[UPC]] codes''', searchable online and downloadable version which is not as up-to-date as the online version but is strangely [[license]]d under [[GPL]]
    *[[FLO]] [http://www.fairtade.net/ fairtrade(.net)] - for Redefinition of [[mandatory label]] terms like [[dolphin safe]], which we must track closely.  '''what is the best source on this issue, and who tracks whether labels are ecologically sane or not?'''
    *[[Transnationale]] [http://www.transnationale.org/ (.org)] - Consumer guides to Multinationals and shopping. Transnationale.org provides comprehensive information on more than 13,000 [[companies]] around the world. We report social and environmental behaviour, financial data, list of brands, membership to the most influential lobbies, public relations and opinion making, managers name and position, shareholders and subsidiaries, plants locations and offshore centers, brand and corporate image management.
    *'''[[Consumer Reports]] [http://www.consumerreports.org/ (.org)]''' - offers comparisons of various [[product group]]s. Online since at least [[1998]] according to [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.consumerreports.org/ Archive.org]. [[Nonprofit]] and Independent
    *[[SourceWatch]] [http://sourcewatch.org (.org)] - [[Propaganda]] and [[no body]] detection, since these always work to the detriment of [[some body]].  '''See [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Propaganda SourceWatch:propaganda] and the [[propaganda glossary]] underlying it.
    * [[UnitedDiversity]] - Also referred to as "udoo." (United Diversity Open Organisation). A very interesting London based group dedicated to building commons and sharing resources: to improve [[measuring well-being|quality of life]] for all while simultaneously reducing [[ecological footprint]]. [http://ud.lir.be/tiki-index.php]
    :This is a primarily social effort, it seems. They have open space meetings called WTF and interact with large groups of people. It's a pro-[[democracy]] group, actively working to organize people. They are interested in things like community currency, flash mob, and open space.
    * [[DBpedia]] [http://dbpedia.org (.org)] - http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ data extraction of information in [[Wikipedia]] to an [[w:ontology]] and datasets.
    * [http://www.consumerservicesguide.org/ Consumer Services Guide (.org)] a hefty guide of consumer information mostly for US by http://www.consumer-action.org/
    *[[Ekopedia]] [http://www.ekopedia.org/ (.org)]  - advice on living green in 7 languages ( [[MediaWiki]], CC-A-SA )
    *[[wikitext standard]] efforts
    ::''(note:  [[Meta-Wikipedia]] is now devoted to [[software imperialism]] and [[mediawiki]] hegemony, and cannot be considered a valid forum to discuss any such "standard";  As an example of a failed attempt to organize against a cabal, see the[http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Wikipedias_Forum United Wikipedias Forum] - how to get a huge 40-language project governed in [[Simple English]] without a cabal taking it over completely.  Obviously this has failed.''
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    Feeling frustrated? Do something useful, it'll make you feel better
    * '''http://www.thehungersite.com''' - Donate food by visiting this site. You will see some [[advertisement]]s from [[companies]] that are donating the [[financial capital]] to make this happen. If you don't want this to happen you should close your eyes.
    * '''http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org''' - Donate your spare CPU cycles ( processor time ) to work for good of the world at the price of the added electricity consumption of burning your CPU hot instead of it kicking back and lowering electricity consumption when it has much idle time.
    All of the above are '''essential''' since not doing them leads to the wrong result, or no result (also wrong) at the [[point of purchase]].  For instance to not know who owns who can let a company that is truly horrible compete simply by creating a [[front company]].  To not have Adbusters helping to create and publicize the standard [[barcode]] we agree on, means we lose essential publicity and help from them, and their programs of anti-propaganda billboards and truth-telling.  To not include travel is to have no influence on the largest discretionary decision people usually make in a year - where to spend their [[vacation]].  The ability to check which tourism packages are best or worst with a single click or code is a huge edge for a happy future!  Letting [[no body]] convince you that [[some body]] doesn't matter, or matters less than the [[no body]] who says so, is a sure way to help no-body corporations and ideology destroy some-body apes, dolphins, forests and this planet.
    The following has recently moved under the umbrella of an [[enemy project]]:
    *[[Simple English Wikipedia]] [http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/ simple.wikipedia(.org)] - educating people all over the world, finding out what they care about, recruiting those who can keep [[opinion wiki]] up to date.  This is the translation base for all Wikipedias, and may be necessary for use to provide background notes in any language for Consumerium advice.
    ::Now it will be necessary to fork this project, perhaps working with a valid and neutral international agency such as [[UNHCR]] which actually cares about the providing of essential survival and liability and risk information to people in simple language, and which probably has good resources for dealing with this.
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    :* http://www.wtfcon.org - WTF's The Future? A wiki that organises moots for techno-hippies and anarcho-geeks.  A truly cool use of emergent democracy. ''wtfcon.org is down - content moved to [[UnitedDiversity]], see above'' Many of the people who were involved in this seem to be somehow involved in [http://ironfire.org/takebacktheweb Take Back The Web].
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    * Minciu Sodas, http://www.ms.lt open laboratory for serving and organizing independent thinkers
    * Global Villages, http://www.globalvillages.info  wiki for developing a pattern language for global villages
    * Modo Fac Central, http://www.modofaccentral.com/mfc/  online social networking system lead by Kerry Santo for social entrepreneurs and all who want to Just Do It
    * One Village Foundation, http://www.onevillage.biz  responding to the AIDS challenge in Africa by organizing unity centers as catalysts for global villages
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    ==Projects that no longer exist==
    * [[:Category:Projects that no longer exist]]
    * <s> [http://ConsumerGadget.net ConsumerGadget.net]</s> - ethical information SMS+XHTML-service mostly in Finnish
    * <s> [[Wikicompany]] </s> - a community built, free content, worldwide, business directory.
    *<s> http://badcorp.org/ </s>- they have very interesting search engine for figuring out who owns who!  This is essential to track those constantly-changing names.
    * <s>[[Recyclopedia]]</s> (at [http://www.recyclopedia.info this URL] - probably the most closely aligned encyclopedia project, and using [[GetWiki]].  We might consider this to be the best prototype yet of the future [[Development Wiki]]. '''Recyclopedia is down for an unknown period''' Although much of the content seems to be reappearing at the [[Embodiment wiki]].
    * <s>[[Living Platform]]</s> - useful to emulate to set [[Publish:policy]] as it has very similar problems notably with [[faction]] and challenges of remaining [[troll-friendly]] despite intense feelings about things
    * <s>[http://www.stapleton-gray.com/surpriv/ The Surpriv blog]</s> is for discussions of RFID-related surveillance and privacy issue
    * <s>[[Interra]] - [http://interraproject.org interraproject.org]</s> - a [[card]] to enable "purchasing from locally owned and sustainable businesses" that "donates automatically to community organizations" and even "facilitates connections" like [[faction]]s or [[Serendipity]].
    *<s>[[CorpKnowPedia]]</s> - tracking the corporate landscape - dedicated to building a database to track the behavior of corporations.
    * <s>http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/opensource/greenscan/ - [[GreenScan]]</s>, an [[Adbusters]] project to create a hand-held barcode scanner with a simple output system. Scan a product: if you get a [[green light]], it is ok to buy. Red is bad. What they don't yet realize is that building a specific access device without a database and information infrastructure, won't do much good.  Go visit them and keep reminding them of this!
    * <s>Tuotewiki.fi</s>


    == Assortments of links ==
    == Assortments of links ==

    Revision as of 16:26, 15 January 2016

    Welcome to Consum(er)ium lists of lists

    Lists of consumer convenience services

    Info on companies and products in the internet now

    If you want to find out about products and companies NOW (not in X years ;) please go try these. Consumerium makes no guarantees about the validity of information offered at the sites. These links are here to save you from hours of search-and-miss-annoyance:

    Business Ethics

    • The Ethical Consumer - The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names.
    • The Good Shopping Guide - UK
    • Responsible Shopper A project run by Co-op America that has very convergent goal with us and they actually have a Searchable DB online with 350 big companies investigated.
    • TransNationale - Consumer guides to Multinationals and shopping. Over 21.000 brands and over 10.000 companies covered.

    Graphics

    WikiWiki

    Social networks

    • Diaspora - a decentralized ad-free and cost-free social network software and social network. https://d.consumium.org serving the consumer informedness effort. http://podupti.me is a site dedicated to provide various views of the pods currently active.

    Lists of essential efforts and projects

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    Essential efforts and projects are interesting projects we can't really ignore. They are doing things that we have to do, and we are far better off working with them, than ignoring them. In many cases they will be doing something before we do it here, and maybe better. So tracking them closely is useful.

    • Transnationale (.org) - Consumer guides to Multinationals and shopping. Transnationale.org provides comprehensive information on more than 13,000 companies around the world. We report social and environmental behaviour, financial data, list of brands, membership to the most influential lobbies, public relations and opinion making, managers name and position, shareholders and subsidiaries, plants locations and offshore centers, brand and corporate image management.
    • UnitedDiversity - Also referred to as "udoo." (United Diversity Open Organisation). A very interesting London based group dedicated to building commons and sharing resources: to improve quality of life for all while simultaneously reducing ecological footprint. [1]
    This is a primarily social effort, it seems. They have open space meetings called WTF and interact with large groups of people. It's a pro-democracy group, actively working to organize people. They are interested in things like community currency, flash mob, and open space.
    (note: Meta-Wikipedia is now devoted to software imperialism and mediawiki hegemony, and cannot be considered a valid forum to discuss any such "standard"; As an example of a failed attempt to organize against a cabal, see theUnited Wikipedias Forum - how to get a huge 40-language project governed in Simple English without a cabal taking it over completely. Obviously this has failed.

    Feeling frustrated? Do something useful, it'll make you feel better

    • http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org - Donate your spare CPU cycles ( processor time ) to work for good of the world at the price of the added electricity consumption of burning your CPU hot instead of it kicking back and lowering electricity consumption when it has much idle time.

    All of the above are essential since not doing them leads to the wrong result, or no result (also wrong) at the point of purchase. For instance to not know who owns who can let a company that is truly horrible compete simply by creating a front company. To not have Adbusters helping to create and publicize the standard barcode we agree on, means we lose essential publicity and help from them, and their programs of anti-propaganda billboards and truth-telling. To not include travel is to have no influence on the largest discretionary decision people usually make in a year - where to spend their vacation. The ability to check which tourism packages are best or worst with a single click or code is a huge edge for a happy future! Letting no body convince you that some body doesn't matter, or matters less than the no body who says so, is a sure way to help no-body corporations and ideology destroy some-body apes, dolphins, forests and this planet.

    The following has recently moved under the umbrella of an enemy project:

    • Simple English Wikipedia simple.wikipedia(.org) - educating people all over the world, finding out what they care about, recruiting those who can keep opinion wiki up to date. This is the translation base for all Wikipedias, and may be necessary for use to provide background notes in any language for Consumerium advice.
    Now it will be necessary to fork this project, perhaps working with a valid and neutral international agency such as UNHCR which actually cares about the providing of essential survival and liability and risk information to people in simple language, and which probably has good resources for dealing with this.
    • http://www.wtfcon.org - WTF's The Future? A wiki that organises moots for techno-hippies and anarcho-geeks. A truly cool use of emergent democracy. wtfcon.org is down - content moved to UnitedDiversity, see above Many of the people who were involved in this seem to be somehow involved in Take Back The Web.

    Projects that no longer exist

    • Wikicompany - a community built, free content, worldwide, business directory.
    • http://badcorp.org/ - they have very interesting search engine for figuring out who owns who! This is essential to track those constantly-changing names.
    • Recyclopedia (at this URL - probably the most closely aligned encyclopedia project, and using GetWiki. We might consider this to be the best prototype yet of the future Development Wiki. Recyclopedia is down for an unknown period Although much of the content seems to be reappearing at the Embodiment wiki.


    • The Surpriv blog is for discussions of RFID-related surveillance and privacy issue


    • CorpKnowPedia - tracking the corporate landscape - dedicated to building a database to track the behavior of corporations.


    • Tuotewiki.fi

    Assortments of links

    • Research - Ongoing research works in Wikipedia, Meta-Wikipedia etc.
    • Wikipedia - Intersting fairly completed articles in Wikipedia
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