Editing Interesting organisations

==International Institutions== (These are the ones most likely used for [[Reference]] of [[Core-data]])

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*[http://www.un.org United Nations] - Agenda: World peace and prosperity

*[http://www.unece.org/ 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 [[Apple]]s, need I say more. [[Reference]]-quality stuff. See also [[UNECE]]

*[http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/main.htm 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.

*[http://www.unece.org/cefact/ United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business] - Tons and Tons of [[trade]] specifications/advisories. [[Reference]]-quality stuff. '''A must see!!'''

* [http://www.iso.org International Organization for Standardization] - They have a bad practice of charging lots of money for any [[reference]]-quality data.
**See [[ISO]] for more info on ISO and Consumerium
**See [[w:List of ISO standards]] for a quick overview of their scope
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==Foundations==
*[http://www.gnu.org Free Software Foundation]

*[http://www.apache.org/ Apache Software Foundation]
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==International NGOs==
* [http://www.hrw.org/ Human Rights Watch] - Agenda: Human Rights

* [http://amnesty.org Amnesty International] - Agenda: Human rights

* [http://www.transparency.org/ Transparency International] - Agenda: Fighting corruption, '''checkout their extensive [http://www.transparency.org/site-tools/links.html links] collection''' Lot's of good stuff on [[sustainable development]], [[good corporate citizenship]] and lots more

* [http://www.greenpece.org Greenpeace] - Agenda: Environmentalism
** 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.

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==National NGOs by country==

===[[w:Africa|Africa]]===

===[[w:Asia|Asia]]===

===[[w:Australia|Australia]]===

===[[w:Europe|Europe]]===
'''United Kingdom'''
* [http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ Ethical Consumer] - is the website of [[ECRA]] - the Ethical Consumer Research Association. Tons of practical advisories, research. '''Good Stuff!'''

===[[w:North America|North America]]===

===[[w:South America|South America]]===

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===See also:===
* [[Interesting projects]] - Non-commercial, Non-institutional links that are useful for Consumerium
* [[Interesting companies]] - Commercial links