Interesting projects
Not-for-profit Projects
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Possible sources/gateways of Content
- 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 Wikipedia3)
- http://badcorp.org/ - they have very interesting search engine for figuring out who owns who!
- http://www.theyrule.net/ - Topic map style visual presentations of interrelations of Companies Executives and stuff in the US mostly. Static mapping so they have an advisory about propably being out-of-date.
- "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.
- 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.
- http://www.environmentaldirectory.net/ - lists over 13.000 organisations dealing with environmental issues in the US
Misc.
- 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.adbusters.org/campaigns/opensource/greenscan/ - GreenScan, 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.
See also:
- Interesting organisations - Institutions and organisations that provide reference or possibly content
- Interesting companies - Commercial links
- Strange projects for amusing, off topic sites