[Foundation-l] New project proposal: Trade Standard

Wed Jan 26 17:45:30 UTC 2005

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