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Welcome, newcomers to consumerium, where fair trade, political consumerism and moral purchasing trends are coming together to create what we call moral purchasing power:

Consumerium is a not-for-profit project to focus that power. We are collaborating under the GFDL license, to design a healthy buying infrastructure. We are identifying hardware requirements for storage, transport and display of varying levels of product information to consumers and feedback to producers at the point of purchase.

Start exploring Consumerium by seeing the Brief introduction article and another way in to this could be the Consumerium:FAQ. There are also other essential projects, besides Consumerium itself we hope to introduce you to.

We invite you, if you wish to participate by editing proposals and discussions below. As customary in many wikis any page can be edited by anyone, anytime, or restored to a previous state by anyone, which is the convention we assume will also apply in operation in this (combined) Research and Development Wiki; Please see What Consumerium RD Wiki is not, guidelines and rules for do's and dont's

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

New to Consumerium or Wiki?

Ready to contribute?

Links

Software

Hardware

Other

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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-[[Fair trade]], [[political consumerism]] and [[moral purchasing]] trends are coming together to create what we call '''''[[moral purchasing power]]''''':
+[[Consumerium:Welcome, newcomers|Welcome, newcomers]] to [[consumerium]], where [[fair trade]], [[political consumerism]] and [[moral purchasing]] trends are coming together to create what we call '''''[[moral purchasing power]]''''':
-[[Consumerium]] is a not-for-profit project to focus that power.  We are collaborating under the [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to design a [[healthy buying infrastructure]].  We are identifying [[hardware requirements]] for storage, transport and display of varying levels of '''[[features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s''' and '''[[feedback]] to [[producer]]s''' at the [[point of purchase]].  We hope to be part of an evolving [[healthy signal infrastructure]] that all [[essential projects]] can participate in.  ''Also see the '''[[Consumerium:FAQ]]''' about the project itself.  Here is a summary of '''[[Consumerium Services]]''' of interest to the end user:''
+[[Consumerium]] is a not-for-profit project to focus that power.  We are collaborating under the [[GFDL]] [[licences|license]], to design a [[healthy buying infrastructure]].  We are identifying [[hardware requirements]] for storage, transport and display of varying levels of '''[[features|product information]] to [[consumer]]s''' and '''[[feedback]] to [[producer]]s''' at the [[point of purchase]].
-:Advice (the [[Consumerium buying signal]]) will probably be seen by the [[end user]] as a [[red light|red]]/[[yellow light|yellow]]/[[green light]] traffic-type signal or as a note in [[Simple English]] about issues with, or merits of, the [[product]] and the [[companies]] participating in the delievery of the product.
+Start exploring [[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium]] by seeing the '''[[Brief introduction]]''' article and another way in to this could be the '''[[Consumerium:FAQ]]'''.  There are also other '''[[essential projects]]''', besides [[Consumerium:Itself|Consumerium itself]] we hope to introduce you to.
-:All rely on [[Signal Wiki]] [[features|facts]], [[comment]]s and [[campaigns]] collated and aggregated by software using a [[wikitext standard]].  [[Semantic link]] standards may be required also.  A deeper [[Research Wiki]] backs the signal and permits arbitrary [[faction]] debate, development of [[individual buying criteria|individual]] and [[institutional buying criteria]].
+We invite you, if you wish to participate by editing proposals and discussions below. As customary in many [[wiki]]s '''any page can be edited by anyone, anytime''', or [[revert|restored to a previous state]] by anyone, which is the convention we assume will also apply in operation in this (combined) [[Research Wiki|Research]] and [[Development Wiki]];  Please see [[What Consumerium RD Wiki is not]], [[guidelines]] and [[rules]] for do's and dont's'''
-:Realtime release of this advice (in whatever form) to a [[worn device]] is keyed to [[bar code]]s.  It may rely on frequently updated data embedded in [[worn device]]s, and/or dynamic retrieval via [[short-range wireless]] to the [[retail shelf]].  Where possible, reasons for making buying decisions, or refusing a certain product, will go as [[feedback]] to the [[producer]]s via the [[Research Wiki]].  This will affect [[institutional buying criteria]] at [[Consumerium Service access|all points in the supply chain]], enhance the consumer experience by providing a feeling of power, advance improved product development and keep this planet as hospitable as possible for human and other natural life.
-We invite you to participate by editing proposals and discussions below.  '''As customary in many [[wiki]]s any page can be edited by anyone''', or [[revert|restored to a previous state]] by anyone, which is the convention we assume will also apply in operation in this (combined) [[Research Wiki|Research]] and [[Development Wiki]];  Please see [[What Consumerium RD Wiki is not]], [[guidelines]] and [[rules]] for do's and dont's'''
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