Consumerium list of lists

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    Welcome to Consum(er)ium lists of lists

    Consum(er)ium lists of consumer convenience services

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

    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 websites

    • 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(.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 wikis

    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.

    • 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.

    Consum(er)ium list of 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 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. See also UNECE
    • UN/LOCODE by UNECE UN/LOCODE provides code elements for more than 36.000 names of ports, airports, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport in 234 countries.

    EU institutions/sites

    • OHIM - The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
    • Eurodicautom - Official EU jargon terms translated from 12 languages to 12 languages. Useful in checking what is the widely used expression for something in English.

    Consortiums

    • OASIS - Organization for Structured Information Standards, maker of ebXML

    Foundations

    International NGOs

    • 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!

    National NGOs, efforts, projects sites and other links by country

    Africa

    Asia

    Australia

    Europe

    Pan European

    United Kingdom

    • Ethical Consumer - is the website of ECRA - the Ethical Consumer Research Association. Tons of practical advisories, research.

    Belgium

    Austria

    Finland

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

    North America

    US

    South America

    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)
    • 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)
    • Infoshop Open Wiki - 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.


    Creative Commons licenced

    http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page - 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.

    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.
    • http://www.ladywiki.org/ - open public space for exchange & action against (not only sexual) discrimination, public domain
    • openDemocracy.net - an online global magazine of politics and culture. They publish clarifying debates which help people make up their own minds.

    Miscellaneous projects

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


    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.

    Strange projects

    • 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.


    Consum(er)ium list of projects that no longer exist

    B

    • http://badcorp.org/ - had a very interesting search engine in the 00's for figuring out who owns who! This is essential to track those constantly-changing names.

    C

    • ConsumerGadget.net was an ethical information SMS+XHTML-service in the 00's in Finnish. Was discontinued and won money was donated to Kulutusjuhla Ry.
    • CorpKnowPedia was an early 00's wiki tracking the corporate landscape with the intention of building a database to track the behaviour of corporations.

    F

    G

    I

    L

    • Lsb - was an epic wiki named "eg" ( suppose thatäs latin for example gratularis or so ) by the lsb:Efficient Civics Guild use [[lsb:Article name]]


    O

    R

    • Recyclopedia(.info) was a closely aligned wiki that used GetWiki, an ancient fork of Mediawiki. Recyclopedia is down for an unknown period. Although much of the content seems to be reappearing at the Embodiment wiki.

    S

    T

    • Tuotewiki.fi Finnish language product-oriented ( instead of holistic orientation like Consum(er)ium )

    V

    • http://veganwiki.org/ - was a wiki for our vegan friends, currently only in German, but English, French and Spanish wikis are being prepared for setup

    W

    • Wikicompany(.com) - a community built, free content, worldwide, business directory.

    Assortments of links

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