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


    If you are not sure if a new link belongs here, please check '''[[Links|Other Links]]''' for other alternatives.
    If you are not sure if a new link belongs here, please check '''[[Links|Other Links]]''' for other alternatives.
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    **See [[w:List of ISO standards]] for a quick overview of their scope
    **See [[w:List of ISO standards]] for a quick overview of their scope


    * [http://www.fairtrade.net/ Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO)]
    * [http://www.fairtrade.net/ Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO)] see also: [[FLO]]
     
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    ==EU institutions/sites==
     
    == EU institutions/sites ==
    * [[OHIM]] - The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market  
    * [[OHIM]] - The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market  
    * [http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller 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.
    * [http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller 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.
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    ==International NGOs==
     
    == International NGOs ==


    * [http://www.cleanclothes.org/ Clean Clothes Campaign] - Agenda: Worker's right
    * [http://www.cleanclothes.org/ Clean Clothes Campaign] - Agenda: Worker's right
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    ==National NGOs by country==
    == National NGOs by country ==


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


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


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


    ===[[w:Europe|Europe]]===
    === Europe ===
    ''' Pan European'''
    ''' Pan European'''


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    *[http://www.privatkopie.at Privatkopie Austria]   
    *[http://www.privatkopie.at Privatkopie Austria]   


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


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    * [http://www.nrf-arts.org/ National Retail Federation / Association for Retail Technology Standards] - Their XML schema covers the following issues: Item & Price Maintenance - Merchandise Flow Management - Inventory Management - Tender Control - Adminstration - Reporting - Ordering - Workforce Management - Customer Relationship Management  [[(NEW)]]
    * [http://www.nrf-arts.org/ National Retail Federation / Association for Retail Technology Standards] - Their XML schema covers the following issues: Item & Price Maintenance - Merchandise Flow Management - Inventory Management - Tender Control - Adminstration - Reporting - Ordering - Workforce Management - Customer Relationship Management  [[(NEW)]]


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


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

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    International Institutions

    (These are the ones most likely used for Reference of Core-data)

    If you are not sure if a new link belongs here, please check Other Links for other alternatives.

    • 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 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

    North America

    US

    South America


    See also