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Welcome to Consumerium.org R&D Wiki

Consumerium is a not-for-profit project, being designed under GFDL license, to develop free software and infrastructure for storage, transport and display of varying levels of product information to consumers at the point of purchase. It may also develop or aggregate other software to assist in the compilation and validation of information to guide purchasing.

It is part of a major trend in activism - one of several essential projects that will make moral purchasing a daily reality. Consumerium focuses moral purchasing power to keep this planet hospitable as possible for life. How exactly will this be done? Here's our best guess yet:

Advice will probably be seen by the end user as a red/yellow/green light traffic-type signal, or as a score easily translated into a price premium, or as a note in Simple English about issues with, or merits of, the product. All rely on opinion wiki comments compiled by software using a wikitext standard. Semantic link standards may be required also.

However it is seen by the consumer, the release of this advice is keyed to bar codes, and may rely on frequently updated data embedded in hand-held devices, and/or dynamic retrieval via short-range wireless to the shelf front. Where possible, reasons for making buying decisions, or refusing a certain product, will go as feedback to the producers.

We invite you to participate by editing proposals and discussions below.

Selected articles

Look for info on companies and products now? - A Very Brief Introduction to The Consumerium Concept
Opinion Wiki - Content Wiki - The Consumerium Exchange - The New Design Paradigm - Essential projects
Fairtrade On Demand (NEW)

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New to Consumerium or Wiki? Welcome, newcomers Motivation Features Philosophy FAQ	Ready to contribute? Research Wikipedia Simple English Wikipedia Consumerium:FAQ Design XML. Polls	Links Links To Wikipedia Essential projects - don't miss these! Interesting projects Interesting companies Interesting organisations Interesting software Ongoing works in Wikipedia etc.
Software ConsuML Sourceforge XML XML/DTD	Hardware Hardware Requirements Bluetooth	Other Village pump Timeline of Consumerium Goals Stages

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Use w:Wikipedia to link to http://www.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia (and m: to meta). Avoid unnecessary replicating, we're in the GFDL part of the world after all :)

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