[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Trade Standard

Wed Jan 26 18:05:53 UTC 2005

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 at erikkoopman.nl>
> Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:45:30 +0100
> To: <foundation-l at 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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