Tuotewiki:Tuotewiki (in English)

Tuotewiki

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Tuotewiki - A tool to connect producers from Mali with Finnish consumers.

The theme of 2007 in Dodo was consumerism. One of the theme year's fruits is Tuotewiki, a "Wikipedia" or internet-based encyclopedia for tracing the ecological footprint of products we use daily. Anyone can easily add and check information on Tuotewiki. Producers, users, consumers – all of us - can become Tuotewiki content producers. Even a slight revision or a hint of information from the field is valuable and enlarges our understanding of the world and the products that we make and we use.

In order to fight desertification and to improve agricultural conditions in Africa, we need a total change in the developed world as well. This change cannot be brought about only by the politicians. In order to move towards a carbon-neutral planet, everyone, especially in the rich North, have to be able to change their ways of life and their consuming habits for more sustainable ones.

For this change to take place we need information and tools. Tuotewiki is an easy way to discuss and share knowledge. It is an open database for everyone and for many different kinds of information about products.

Although the main language of Tuotewiki is Finnish, there exists a few example pages in English as well: Peanut, Vanilla. We also have available some slides in English. (However please note that although in some places the slides refer to "ProductWiki" we are not affiliated with the productwiki.com -site.)

--Phoyer 8. toukokuuta 2008 kello 21.11 (EEST)