On December 8, the White House Open Government Initiative and General Services Administration with the support of OMB requested your input in helping us design a next generation public engagement platform where public officials pose questions to citizens and obtain useful and informed contributions for consideration and action. 

Because the online consultation has been so informative, we are extending the comment period by two weeks until January 23, 2011 and encourage you to participate and to invite others. Keep in mind you can follow additions and changes to the consultation by going to expertnet.wikispaces.com and clicking on Notify Me.

http://expertnet.wikispaces.com/Background+and+Principles+Editable

An official at the Department of Innovation would solicit this expertise from the public in a four step process: 

• Step 1 : Setting up a topic with public consultation questions;
• Step 2: Distributing questions to professional networks;
• Step 3: Facilitating structured, online responses to those questions; and
• Step 4: Synthesizing public input and returning feedback.