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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 at the point of purchase.

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/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 codes, 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 producers. 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.

Selected articles

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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New to Consumerium or Wiki? Welcome, newcomers Motivation Features Philosophy FAQ	Ready to contribute? Research Wikipedia Simple English Wikipedia Consumerium:FAQ Design XML. Polls	Links Links To Wikipedia Essential projects - don't miss these! Interesting projects Interesting companies Interesting organisations Interesting software Ongoing works in Wikipedia etc.
Software ConsuML Sourceforge XML XML/DTD	Hardware Hardware Requirements Bluetooth	Other Village pump Timeline of Consumerium Goals Stages

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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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