The ECI Advisory Board is a non official forum. Together with Matthias Groote and Gerald Haefner, it was founded by a core of experts from a range of member states with backing from a growing number of MEPs.

Its overall goal is to bail out ECIs potential to become a means of discursive appropriation of Europe by its citizens, making them co-authors of the European endeavor and thus to reestablish citizens´ faith in European democracy. The board will elaborate recommendations on the different aspects concerning ECIs effective implementation. This includes the development of concepts for a consistent combination of offline and online methods for deliberation and proactive agenda setting. The recommendations elaborated by the board will be presented to the European Parliament, the responsible committees and the European Commission.

The deliberative process is divided into two stages:

1. An initial brainstorming stage (taking place from Aug. 6 to Aug. 18) to collect problems, opinions and make the support for different positions visible.
2. A drafting stage (starting on Aug. 18 and lasting until Sept. 6) to aggregate brainstorming results into jointly elaborated proposals.

In May 2010, a Temporary Steering Committee was formed after the general meeting of PEP‐NET held in Krems, Austria. The aim of this committee was to prepare a vision statement and agenda for the new entity that many partners would appreciate to be born after the end of the EU funding for the project – approximately by the end of this year. In order to collect meaningful and useful information from the current members on the future of PEP‐NET, the results of the steering committee's work were taken over to echo to be further deliberated. The results of this online-deliberation will serve as a starting point for the PEP-NET conference on the 23th of September in Hamburg.

The deliberative process is divided into two stages:

1. An initial brainstorming stage (taking place from July 19. to Aug. 15) to collect problems, opinions and make the support for different positions visible.
2. A drafting stage (starting on Aug. 16 and lasting until Sept. 19) to aggregate brainstorming results into jointly elaborated proposals.

In Munich, the ecology guideline to climate protection is going to be submitted to the council - currently we are in the public phase, which allows citizens to participate in the discussions and to take position. Some of the discussed questions are: How much are we willing to waive? How far do we want to go rebuilding our transport system? Where should be invested? How can the city support the change of lifestyle?
For more infos about the Klimaherbst TV event series, click here.

With the inclusion of the German technological and academic community, it discusses the future development of the internet. The work of the IGF-D focuses on the global topics of the IGF of the United Nations (UN-IGF) (diversity, openness, security, critical internet resources and the future of the internet) with specific consideration for the problems and interests in Germany.

Goals of the IGF-D are:

• Promoting dialogue between stakeholders on specific topics concerning internet development to further increase German potencial.
• Preparing and enriching the German stakeholders' contribution to the Internet Governance Forum of the United Nations.

What is the price of products composed of and what are the social and ecological follow-up costs behind them? What advantages can we expect from regional, fair and eco-friendly trade? How can we make prices transparent and be part of the consumers buying decision?

The interactive dialogue started at two interregional events on April 26 2010 in Berlin and Munich with partners from Austria and Switzerland.

Background information can be found at the blog of Netzwerk Gemeinsinn.

As a mover at echologic you are kindly invited to actively engage into the evolution of echo! Which functions are the most important for you and which ones should be implemented next? Discuss your ideas with other movers and contribute to make more (out of) echo than we might have ever imagined!

echo social is the open source solution to create your own social network with comprehensive functionality and your individual website - for free!

Tell us what you need most to collaborate efficiently, to connect to others and to jointly make your actions successful.
echo social will be released in a few weeks. However, your wishes and priorities flow into the development process already now. More infos under www.echosocial.org.

echonomy stands for a new form of ecologically and socially sustainable, democratic economy, which defines profit also through the welfare of humans and nature.

echonomyJAM brings together creative heads, investors, business experts and decision makers from politics and economy, and enables them to jointly develop, finance and realize concrete projects - all this in the spirit of echonomic sustainability.
The discussions on the most important topics and ideas brought up by the ca. 150 participants of the kick-off event in the Bavarian Parliament are now continued online here at echologic. (More infos under www.echonomyJAM.org).

echo aims to serve as the global agora of a new form of participatory democracy, which we call echocracy.
echocracy is constructive, equitable and self organizing - worldwide!

Contribute your ideas! Let's turn this vision of global democracy into reality!