Consumerium list of lists

Consum(er)ium lists of consumer convenience services

• Lists of review aggregators and review sites - The idea of reviews has been at the core of the Consum(er)ium idea right from the start.
• Lists of alternative financial services looking for affordable personal or SMB credit __or__ steadily profitable investing opportunities? w:Peer-to-peer lending could be the answer satisfying all 2 parties and by-passing the bank.
• Lists of price comparison services - The invisible green hand of Adam Smith is here to help the consumers to get the best value for their money, price comparison services can also be called price search engines or price aggregators.
• List of free education - Information wants to be free. Especially educational information.
• Lists of shared and alternative transport and journey planners - Ridesharing aka. carpooling, car sharing, multimodal transport network finders and more
• List of types of business entity originated in the article types of companies, was wikipediafied and can now be found at w:types of business entity for nearly all countries and languages.

Consum(er)ium list of sites for the ethical consumer

• The Ethical Consumer - The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names.
• Fairtrade Labelling Organizations FLO International (fairtrade.net)
• 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(.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.

Other consumer oriented sites

• http://adbusters.org/ - Website of Adbusters Media Foundation, a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Their aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.
• Appropedia.org copyleft source of instructional capital for the consumer (and the entrepreneur)
• Consumer Reports (.org) - offers comparisons of various product groups. Online since at least 1998 according to Archive.org. Nonprofit and Independent
• Consumer Services Guide (.org) a hefty guide of consumer information mostly for US by http://www.consumer-action.org/

Consumer on the move

• Lists of shared and alternative transport and journey planners - Ridesharing aka. carpooling, car sharing, multimodal transport network finders and more
• Wikitravel (.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. Licensed under the Creative Commons CC-A-SA license. A wiki to discover new places to eat, stay, enjoy and experience.

Activist oriented sites

• Amnesty International - Agenda: Human rights
• Environmental Defence - Makers of http://scorecard.goodguide.com/ service in which allows you to identify polluters in the US in your area*
• Clean Clothes Campaign - Agenda: Worker's right
• Foundation for A Free Information Infrastructure
• Free Software Foundation Europe
• Greenpeace - Agenda: Environmentalism, safe trade, oceans, climate, opposing dangerous technology
  • http://act.greenpeace.org - Greenpeace cyber-activist community weblog, has hundreds of thousands of users, searches on almost any topic will yield something (Google searches will only show official documents). Active discussion of features for activist sites, how to integrate email chat and web, whether to use wikis or annotation, etc. Active discussion of many different projects. Probably the most advanced activist network anywhere on Earth - a good place to recruit trolls!
• Human Rights Watch - Agenda: Human Rights
• Infoshop.org is a portal linking content on the net of interest to the anarchist and anti-authoritarian community. In the spirit of anarchism, it is a collaborative project that encourages participation and networking of resources. Part of this network is the often updated Infoshop News.
• The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) is the worldwide umbrella organization for the organic agriculture movement, which represents close to 800 affiliates in 117 countries. ( Wikipedia )
• SourceWatch (.org) - Propaganda and no body detection, since these always work to the detriment of some body. - A collaborative effort to investigate public relations operations and operatives by The Center for Media and Democracy.
• http://www.theyrule.net/ - Topic map style visual presentations of interrelations of Companies Executives and stuff in the US mostly. They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class.
• Transparency International - Agenda: Fighting corruption, checkout their extensive links collection Lot's of good stuff on sustainable development, good corporate citizenship and lots more
• Worldwatch Institute - An independent research organization working for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society. Special: Check out their Consumption portal

Business ethics sites and other sites for businesses

• http://www.fairtradefederation.com/ - an association of fairtrade wholesalers, retailers, and producers
• The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market [(oami.europa.eu)
• Rocky Mountain Institute - promoting Natural Capitalism
• Social Accountability International - organisation behind the SA8000 social accountability system.

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List of social media where you can like Consum(er)ium

• 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. Share with us. We are consumium@d.consumium.org.
• https://twitter.com/Consumium
• https://www.facebook.com/Consumium

Techical solutions useful to Consum(er)ium

• Translatewiki (.net) is a localisation platform for translation communities, language communities, and free and open source projects. Currently used to localize MediaWiki, pyWikipediaBot and Toolserver. Under CC-BY 3.0.
• Internet UPC Database (.com)] - Database of manufacturers and products with UPC codes, searchable online and downloadable version which is not as up-to-date as the online version but is strangely licensed under GPL. Internet UPC Database released a barcode read-via-camera enabled iPhone app in 2015.
• DBpedia (.org) - http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ data extraction of information in Wikipedia to an w:ontology and datasets.
• 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 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.

• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) - Agenda: Environment and Human Settlements, Transport, Statistics, Economic Analysis, Population Analysis, Industrial Restructuring, Energy and Enterprise Development, Trade, Industry and Enterprise Development, Timber, Agricultural Standards, Coordinating Unit for Operational Activities, Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme. 10 pages of different types of Apples, need I say more. Reference-quality stuff.
• UN/LOCODE by UNECE UN/LOCODE provides code elements for more than 36.000 names of pots, airports, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport in 234 countries.
• United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC) - by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Now technically managed by UCC. Contains 50,000+ commodities and product groups
• OASIS (.org) - Organization for Structured Information Standards, maker of ebXML

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Consum(er)ium list of other interesting organizations

International Institutions

(These are the ones most likely used for Reference of Core-data)

• United Nations - Agenda: World peace and prosperity by getting heavily armed nation-states to cooperate.
• United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business - Tons and Tons of trade specifications/advisories. Reference-quality stuff.
• International Organization for Standardization ISO (.org)] - They have a bad practice of charging lots of money for any reference-quality data. See w:List of ISO standards for a quick overview of their scope

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Foundations

• Free Software Foundation - promoting Free Software and Open Content

• Apache Software Foundation - an Open Source Code Consortium

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The Consum(er)ium eternally incomplete list of stuff by country

Asia

Australia

• http://www.choice.com.au/ - Australia's oldest consumer empowerment effort

Europe

Austria

Belgium

• Association Electronic Libre

Finland

• http://kulutusjuhla.fi/ ( Consumption Celebration ) which inherited the now defunct Consumer Gadget association's funds

United Kingdom

North America

US

• National Retail Federation / Association for Retail Technology Standards - Their XML schema covers the following issues: Item & Price Maintenance - Merchandise Flow Management - Inventory Management - Tender Control - Adminstration - Reporting - Ordering - Workforce Management - Customer Relationship Management

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List of interesting not-for-profit projects

GFDL corpus sources of information

• Disinfopedia is 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 MediaWiki, under GFDL)

• Wikipedia - The free encyclopedia, all content is under GFDL. - (Running MediaWiki) use [[w:Article name]]

• 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. - (Running MediaWiki, under GFDL)

• http://wikibooks.org - Yet another great idea being put forward by WikiMedia Foundation. Wikibooks is dedicated to developing and disseminating free, open content textbooks and other classroom texts - (Running MediaWiki, under GFDL)

• Cookbook - One of the wikibooks that is of particular interest is the cookbook. Includes information on vegan and vegetarian food as well as other moral purchasing. - (Running MediaWiki, under GFDL)

• GFDL Corpus despite the various thugs trying to control it for their own commercial interests - Wikipedia (.org), Simple English Wikipedia simple.wikipedia(.org), Wikidata (.org), Wikibooks (.org) (especially Cookbook mjam ) and Wiktionary (.org)

• WikiApiary(.com) - tracking 8,000+ MediaWiki wikis

Non-GFDL

• "Earth Reforesting System" - not sure if this is going to work, but, at least they started with mediawiki, so maybe they are just waiting for others to chip in, just like Consumerium did. Mostly in Japanese.

• openDemocracy.net - an online global magazine of politics and culture. They publish clarifying debates which help people make up their own minds.

• The Jus Semper Global Alliance - their main programme is "The Living Wages North and South Initiative" which studies the development of w:Purchasing power parity in developed and developing countries - Very good and concise source of w:Corporate social responsibility or CSR information.

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Miscellaneous projects

• http://www.aflcio.org/corporateamerica/paywatch/ - Annoy yourself by looking up how much US CEOs' get compensated

• http://www.ipjustice.org A project that lobbies against Digital Rights Management and misuse of Intellectual Property.

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

• http://crit.org - annotation software to 'mark up' any site on the web

• http://smartmobs.com - discussion of mobile technologies for politics

• http://slipperycat.com - attempt to nail down ontology for game business - shows what a simple industry looks like from low level code up to production. - a stub at the moment

• http://www.2action.com/main.asp - a commercial vendor of worn device software for meeting and sales support - what does their UI look like? What words mean what? We should always study carefully this kind of example of a decision support system

• Norway Troll Party

• http://planetarycitizen.open.ac.uk/ - A network for the Planetary Citizen

"This project comes out of a vision for a peaceful, sustainable future for the Earth that has been developing in many places. That vision was very evident in the non-governmental side of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in August/September 2002, in many of the events that were ignored by the mass media."

• OPTIMAES Wiki (Open Project To Investigate Money And Economic Systems) - Usemod, public domain

• The Open Co-op - "... To build a worldwide commmunity of individuals and organisations committed to creating a collaborative sustainable economy." - Tikiwiki, copyright unknown.

• UnitedDiversity

• SocialForge.net - (tikiwiki, apparently GFDL) "It's a free service for everyone wishes to share knowledge and to collaborate to build projects related to:
  • participative democracy (direct democracy, consensus method, emergent democracy, ...);
  • [self-governance]]
  • community building
  • autonomy, self-reliance
  • alternative economies
  • sustainable development
  • anti-authoritarism in practice
  • technology as a liberation tool"

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 advertisements 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 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 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

Strange projects

• http://www.jamespatten.com/cfd/ - Corporate Fallout Detector - Now version 2!

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and finally Consum(er)ium alphabetical list of projects and stuff that doesn't exist any more

Assortments of links

• Research - Ongoing research works in Wikipedia, Meta-Wikipedia etc.
• Wikipedia - Intersting fairly completed articles in Wikipedia
• Interesting companies - Commercial links
• Interesting software - links to useful software projects

• Interesting feeds - Interesting RSS (RDF) feeds
• Strange projects - Amusing, but "not useful" sites
• Bluetooth - All Bluetooth related links go here
• XML - XML links here