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::''(note: [[Meta-Wikipedia]] is now devoted to [[software imperialism]] and [[mediawiki]] hegemony, and cannot be considered a valid forum to discuss any such "standard"; As an example of a failed attempt to organize against a cabal, see the[http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Wikipedias_Forum United Wikipedias Forum] - how to get a huge 40-language project governed in [[Simple English]] without a cabal taking it over completely. Obviously this has failed.'' | ::''(note: [[Meta-Wikipedia]] is now devoted to [[software imperialism]] and [[mediawiki]] hegemony, and cannot be considered a valid forum to discuss any such "standard"; As an example of a failed attempt to organize against a cabal, see the[http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Wikipedias_Forum United Wikipedias Forum] - how to get a huge 40-language project governed in [[Simple English]] without a cabal taking it over completely. Obviously this has failed.'' | ||
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== List of interesting organizations == | |||
==International Institutions== | |||
(These are the ones most likely used for [[Reference]] of [[Core-data]]) | |||
If you are not sure if a new link belongs here, please check '''[[Links|Other Links]]''' for other alternatives. | |||
*[http://www.sa8000.org/ Social Accountability International] - organisation behind the [[SA8000]] social accountability system. | |||
*[http://www.un.org United Nations] - Agenda: World peace and prosperity by getting heavily armed nation-states to cooperate. | |||
*[http://www.unece.org/ United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)] - Agenda: Environment and Human Settlements, Transport, Statistics, Economic Analysis, Population Analysis, Industrial Restructuring, Energy and Enterprise Development, Trade, Industry and Enterprise Development, Timber, '''Agricultural Standards''', Coordinating Unit for Operational Activities, Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme. 10 pages of different types of [[Apple]]s, need I say more. [[Reference]]-quality stuff. See also [[UNECE]] | |||
*[http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/main.htm UN/LOCODE] by [[UNECE]] UN/LOCODE provides code elements for more than 36.000 names of ports, airports, rail and road terminals, postal exchange offices, border crossing points and other locations used in trade and transport in 234 countries. | |||
*[http://www.unece.org/cefact/ United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business] - Tons and Tons of [[trade]] specifications/advisories. [[Reference]]-quality stuff. | |||
* [http://www.unspsc.org/ United Nations Standard Products and Services Code] ([[UNSPSC]]) - by United Nations Development Programme ([[UNDP]]) Now technically managed by [[UCC]]. | |||
* [http://www.iso.org International Organization for Standardization] - They have a bad practice of charging lots of money for any [[reference]]-quality data. | |||
**See [[ISO]] for more info on ISO and Consumerium | |||
**See [[w:List of ISO standards]] for a quick overview of their scope | |||
* [http://www.fairtrade.net/ Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO)] see also: [[FLO]] | |||
* [[w:The International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements]] (IFOAM) is the worldwide umbrella organization for the organic agriculture movement, which represents close to 800 affiliates in 117 countries. ( Wikipedia ) | |||
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== EU institutions/sites == | |||
* [[OHIM]] - The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market | |||
* [http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller Eurodicautom] - Official EU jargon terms translated from 12 languages to 12 languages. Useful in checking what is the widely used expression for something in English. | |||
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==Consortiums== | |||
* [[OASIS]] - Organization for Structured Information Standards, maker of [[ebXML]] | |||
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==Foundations== | |||
*[http://www.gnu.org Free Software Foundation] - promoting [[Free Software]] and [[Open Content]] | |||
*[http://www.apache.org/ Apache Software Foundation] - an [[Open Source]] [[Code Consortium]] | |||
*[http://www.rmi.org Rocky Mountain Institute] - promoting [[Natural Capitalism]] | |||
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== International NGOs == | |||
* [http://www.cleanclothes.org/ Clean Clothes Campaign] - Agenda: Worker's right | |||
* [http://www.hrw.org/ Human Rights Watch] - Agenda: Human Rights | |||
* [http://amnesty.org Amnesty International] - Agenda: Human rights | |||
* [http://www.transparency.org/ Transparency International] - Agenda: Fighting corruption, '''checkout their extensive [http://www.transparency.org/site-tools/links.html links] collection''' Lot's of good stuff on [[sustainable development]], [[good corporate citizenship]] and lots more | |||
* [http://www.greenpece.org Greenpeace] - Agenda: Environmentalism, [[safe trade]], [[ocean]]s, [[climate]], opposing [[dangerous technology]] | |||
** http://act.greenpeace.org - Greenpeace cyber-activist community weblog, has hundreds of thousands of users, searches on almost any topic will yield something (Google searches will only show official documents). Active discussion of features for activist sites, how to integrate email chat and web, whether to use wikis or annotation, etc. Active discussion of many different projects. Probably the most advanced activist network anywhere on Earth - a good place to recruit [[troll]]s! | |||
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== National NGOs by country == | |||
=== Africa === | |||
=== Asia === | |||
===[[w:Australia|Australia]]=== | |||
* http://www.choice.com.au/ - Australia's oldest consumer empowerment effort | |||
=== Europe === | |||
''' Pan European''' | |||
*[http://www.fsfe.org Free Software Foundation Europe] | |||
*[http://www.ffii.org Foundation for A Free Information Infrastructure] | |||
'''United Kingdom''' | |||
* [http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ Ethical Consumer] - is the website of [[ECRA]] - the Ethical Consumer Research Association. Tons of practical advisories, research. | |||
''' Belgium''' | |||
*[http://www.ael.be Association Electronic Libre] | |||
*[http://wiki.ael.be Wiki of AEL] | |||
''' Austria''' | |||
*[http://www.privatkopie.at Privatkopie Austria] | |||
'''Finland''' | |||
* http://kulutusjuhla.fi/ ( Consumption Celebration ) which inherited the now defunct Consumer Gadget association's funds | |||
=== North America === | |||
'''US''' | |||
* [http://www.worldwatch.org/ Worldwatch Institute] - An independent research organization working for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society. Special: Check out their [http://www.worldwatch.org/topics/consumption/ Consumption portal] | |||
* [http://www.environmentaldefense.org/ Environmental Defense] - They have organised the [http://www.scorecard.org/ Scorecard.org] service in which you can track polluters in the US | |||
* http://www.fairtradefederation.com/ - an association of fairtrade wholesalers, retailers, and producers | |||
* [http://www.nrf-arts.org/ National Retail Federation / Association for Retail Technology Standards] - Their XML schema covers the following issues: Item & Price Maintenance - Merchandise Flow Management - Inventory Management - Tender Control - Adminstration - Reporting - Ordering - Workforce Management - Customer Relationship Management [[(NEW)]] | |||
=== South America === | |||
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=== See also === | |||
* [[Interesting projects]] - Non-commercial, Non-institutional links that are useful for Consumerium | |||
* [[Interesting companies]] - Commercial links | |||
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