Ethical Consumers Club

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First meeting of the club will be Wed, 14th May, hosted at Manchester University.

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[edit] Deliverables

  • see how people rate stuff - to develop an on-line rating system (thinking relative rating at the moment)
    • use criteria hierarchies?
    • use absolute / relative ratings?
    • allow summaries or just discussions?
  • user experience design
  • feedback on current systems
  • excitement / collaboration / marketing

[edit] Agenda

Person collage monolog video will be produced during 10 min tea and biscuit breaks explaining "why we ethically consume" from the registration information. 2 x laptops with webcams / video cameras in 2 rooms = 8 people.

  • Introduce hosts, state agenda, explain that the discussion is being recorded, and video streamed onto the Internet
  • Statement of AIM: "Support Ethical Consumers in making informed purchasing decisions with a comunity built information resource"
  • max 20 mins untainted open discussion to answer "what would help?"
  • 10 mins tea and biscuits
  • observation of how people rate and discuss provided documents (summarised): Give people paper and pen to store results.
    • Give each attendee a document about a company to rate from 0 - 100 "rate this ethical violation from 1 - 100 or depends or don't know"
    • Give each attendee another 9 documents about a company to order in terms of badness "order these ethical violations relitavely"
    • Ask each 4 attendee group to discuss their ratings "discuss your ratings and come to a group consensus of order" with 15 mins tea and biscuits
  • 10 mins tea and biscuits
  • 20 mins presentations:
    • Mobile phone barcode scanner
    • Documents DB
    • Facebook style Community Network
    • IE plug-in
    • questions and answers on current systems
  • 10 mins tea and biscuits
  • Conclusions - open discussion
  • Finish - 10 mins tea and biscuits

[edit] Upcoming Tags

  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Ethical Consumption
  • Community Network
  • Shopping Tools
  • Consumer power
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