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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 at the point of purchase. We hope to be part of an evolving healthy signal infrastructure that all essential projects can participate in.

Q: Will every element of this be free software?

Not necessarily. Free software and open source models have problems. A Consumerium Governance Organization may develop or aggregate "non-free" software to assist in the compilation and validation of information to guide purchasing. For integrity reasons and to prevent bad copies and misleading competitors, this may require a more specific Consumerium License regime. We reserve the right to use your contribution to achieve the general goals of Consumerium. Discussions remain GFDL so that a different implementation on the same design could be, conceivably, created as "pure" free software for those ideologues who want it.

We invite you to participate by editing proposals and discussions below. Any page can be edited by anyone, or restored to a previous state by anyone, which is the convention we assume will also apply in operation in this R&D Wiki (see What Consumerium RD Wiki is not, guidelines and rules for do's and dont's

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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

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New to Consumerium or Wiki? Welcome, newcomers Motivation Features Philosophy FAQ	Ready to contribute? Research Wikipedia Simple English Wikipedia wiktionary:Consumerium translation lists Consumerium:FAQ	Links Links To Wikipedia Essential projects - don't miss these! Interesting projects Interesting companies Interesting organisations Interesting software Ongoing works in Wikipedia etc.
Software MediaWiki (NEW) MediaWiki modifications ConsuML Sourceforge XML XML/DTD	Hardware Hardware Requirements Bluetooth Near Field Communication (NEW)	Other Village pump Timeline of Consumerium Past Future Goals Stages

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