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Welcome to Consumerium.org R&D Wiki

Consumerium is a not-for-profit project, developed under GFDL license, to develop free software and infrastructure for storage, transport and display of varying levels of product information to consumers via short-range wireless or as an offline service to the shelf front and feedback to the producers to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible for human and other natural life.

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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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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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-[[Consumerium]] is a not-for-profit project, developed under [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to develop [[w:free software|free software]] and [[Hardware Requirements|infrastructure]] for storage, transport and display of varying levels of [[Features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s at the [[point of purchase]].
+[[Consumerium]] is a not-for-profit project, developed under [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to develop [[w:free software|free software]] and [[Hardware Requirements|infrastructure]] for storage, transport and display of varying levels of [[Features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s via [[short-range wireless]] or as an offline service to the shelf front and [[feedback]] to the [[producer]]s to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible for human and other natural life.
-It is one of several [[essential projects]] that will make [[moral purchasing]] a daily reality.  Consumerium focuses this '''''[[moral purchasing power]]'''''.
-Advice will probably be seen by the [[end user]] as a [[red light|red]]/[[yellow light|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.
-In any case, the release of this advice is keyed to [[bar code]]s, 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 [[producer]]s.  This will enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and keep this planet as hospitable as possible for human and other natural life.
-The alternative, of course, is for us all to be blissfully [[ignorant]].
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