Essential projects: Difference between revisions
updating these movements with their new names
(*[http://ConsumerGadget.net ConsumerGadget.net] - ethical information SMS+XHTML-service mostly in Finnish) |
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*'''[[Consumer Reports]]''' - offers comparisons of various [[product group]]s. Online since at least [[1998]] according to [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.consumerreports.org/ Archive.org]. [[Nonprofit]] and Independent | *'''[[Consumer Reports]]''' - offers comparisons of various [[product group]]s. Online since at least [[1998]] according to [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.consumerreports.org/ Archive.org]. [[Nonprofit]] and Independent | ||
*'''[[Embodiment wiki]]''' - provides the ethical criteria that should inform any [[moral buying decision]]s. | |||
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::Now it will be necessary to fork this project, perhaps working with a valid and neutral international agency such as [[UNHCR]] which actually cares about the providing of essential survival and liability and risk information to people in simple language, and which probably has good resources for dealing with this. | ::Now it will be necessary to fork this project, perhaps working with a valid and neutral international agency such as [[UNHCR]] which actually cares about the providing of essential survival and liability and risk information to people in simple language, and which probably has good resources for dealing with this. | ||
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:* [[Recyclopedia]] (at [http://www.recyclopedia.info this URL] - probably the most closely aligned encyclopedia project, and using [[GetWiki]]. We might consider this to be the best prototype yet of the future [[Development Wiki]]. '''Recyclopedia is down for an unknown period''' | :* [[Recyclopedia]] (at [http://www.recyclopedia.info this URL] - probably the most closely aligned encyclopedia project, and using [[GetWiki]]. We might consider this to be the best prototype yet of the future [[Development Wiki]]. '''Recyclopedia is down for an unknown period''' Although much of the content seems to be reappearing at the [[Embodiment wiki]]. | ||
:* http://www.wtfcon.org - WTF's The Future? A wiki that organises moots for techno-hippies and anarcho-geeks. A truly cool use of emergent democracy. ''wtfcon.org is down - content moved to [[UnitedDiversity]], see above'' | :* http://www.wtfcon.org - WTF's The Future? A wiki that organises moots for techno-hippies and anarcho-geeks. A truly cool use of emergent democracy. ''wtfcon.org is down - content moved to [[UnitedDiversity]], see above'' Many of the people who were involved in this seem to be somehow involved in [http://ironfire.org/takebacktheweb Take Back The Web]. | ||
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