Trade Standard is a project proposal for: (a) a public knowledge base for all information about goods, technology and (way of) trade to stimulate international development, (b) a public ethic standard and indicator to evaluate international trade and industry and (c) a public register to verify the ethic classification of goods, technology and trade.
Although its high aim is Trade Standard an internet platform very equal to Wikipedia. The only differences are: (1) focus on technical and ethical subjects, (2) equal layouts for all articles, including a chapter for "ethical, social and sustainable characteristics". And (3) the addition of registers to list the ethical characteristics of chemicals, products etc.
Trade Standard is a project with high potential that (a) stimulates international spread of free (technical) information, (b) connects technology with ethics and (c) offers a solution to upgrade today's very conservative, 'lowest standards'-oriented culture of international trade and industry.
Please help me with this project, I am a designer of post-modern concepts not an software specialist or insider in wiki procedures.
Read the whole project proposal at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trade_Standard
Best regards,
Erik Koopman NL
Erik Koopman (mail@erikkoopman.nl) [050127 04:43]:
Trade Standard is a project proposal for: (a) a public knowledge base for all information about goods, technology and (way of) trade to stimulate international development, (b) a public ethic standard and indicator to evaluate international trade and industry and (c) a public register to verify the ethic classification of goods, technology and trade.
Consumerium without 142? :-)
- d.
My flash on this is that it would make a great commercial project with bigtime advertising potential. If we do this (before someone else snatches it up we might use it to fund Wikipedia.
Fred
From: "Erik Koopman" mail@erikkoopman.nl Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:45:30 +0100 To: foundation-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] New project proposal: Trade Standard
Trade Standard is a project proposal for: (a) a public knowledge base for all information about goods, technology and (way of) trade to stimulate international development, (b) a public ethic standard and indicator to evaluate international trade and industry and (c) a public register to verify the ethic classification of goods, technology and trade.
Although its high aim is Trade Standard an internet platform very equal to Wikipedia. The only differences are: (1) focus on technical and ethical subjects, (2) equal layouts for all articles, including a chapter for "ethical, social and sustainable characteristics". And (3) the addition of registers to list the ethical characteristics of chemicals, products etc.
Trade Standard is a project with high potential that (a) stimulates international spread of free (technical) information, (b) connects technology with ethics and (c) offers a solution to upgrade today's very conservative, 'lowest standards'-oriented culture of international trade and industry.
Please help me with this project, I am a designer of post-modern concepts not an software specialist or insider in wiki procedures.
Read the whole project proposal at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trade_Standard
Best regards,
Erik Koopman NL
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Fred Bauder (fredbaud@ctelco.net) [050127 05:04]:
My flash on this is that it would make a great commercial project with bigtime advertising potential. If we do this (before someone else snatches it up we might use it to fund Wikipedia.
That or a natural for Wikicities. A lot of these projects seem to be things that should be run in a "wikilabs" sort of environment first, to see if they take off.
- d.
--- Erik Koopman mail@erikkoopman.nl wrote:
Although its high aim is Trade Standard an internet platform very equal to Wikipedia. The only differences are: (1) focus on technical and ethical subjects, (2) equal layouts for all articles, including a chapter for "ethical, social and sustainable characteristics". And (3) the addition of registers to list the ethical characteristics of chemicals, products etc.
Wikipedia is not paper and WikiProjects are used to keep sets of articles in the same format.
-- mav
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Erik Koopman wrote:
Trade Standard is a project proposal for: (a) a public knowledge base for all information about goods, technology and (way of) trade to stimulate international development, (b) a public ethic standard and indicator to evaluate international trade and industry and (c) a public register to verify the ethic classification of goods, technology and trade.
Although its high aim is Trade Standard an internet platform very equal to Wikipedia. The only differences are: (1) focus on technical and ethical subjects, (2) equal layouts for all articles, including a chapter for "ethical, social and sustainable characteristics". And (3) the addition of registers to list the ethical characteristics of chemicals, products etc.
Trade Standard is a project with high potential that (a) stimulates international spread of free (technical) information, (b) connects technology with ethics and (c) offers a solution to upgrade today's very conservative, 'lowest standards'-oriented culture of international trade and industry.
The problem with this proposal is that it requires an ethical valuation of products. That would be a POV act, where there could be enormous differences of opinion. If some organization already makes such valuations, we would do better to comment on the article for the product that that organization values it in such a way. Let them have the POV fights.
Ec
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