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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.

A Consumerium Governance Organization may also develop or aggregate other software to assist in the compilation and validation of information to guide purchasing. For integrity reasons and to prevent bad copies and misleading competitors, this may require a more specific Consumerium License regime.

Major activism trends to promote fair trade and political consumerism are driving several essential projects that will combine to make moral purchasing a daily reality. Consumerium intends to focus this moral purchasing power to keep this planet as hospitable as possible for life. Here's a summary of anticipated Consumerium Services:

Our front end will 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. Release of this advice is keyed to bar codes.

There are several ways to connect back to front end: we 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.

Our back end relies on opinion wiki comments compiled by software using a wikitext standard. Semantic link standards may be required also. To work out the conventions and issues involved, we are working through a wiki in the R&D phase.

This is that wiki. We invite you to participate by editing proposals and discussions below. Any page can be edited by anyone, or restored to a previous state by anyone, which is the convention we assume will also apply in operation:

Selected articles

Looking for info on companies and products now? - Planned Features to The Consumer - Consumerium Services
Opinion Wiki - Content Wiki - The Consumerium Exchange - Current Design Paradigm - Essential projects
Fairtrade On Demand, Consumerium User Stories

Imagining Threats - Worst cases - status quo - Best cases - Visions

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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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