For what it's worth, I ran across something similar in the Freedom-to-Tinker blog: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)--an intergovernmental think tank--recently faced this challenge. They were planning a global summit for education leaders that is taking place in Paris today (November 4th), and they wanted to bring fresh thinking from the public to this group. To achieve this goal, the OECD created an "idea marketplace" at www.allourideas.org, http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/mjs3/finding-best-ideas-world The concept is quite similar. Peter -- Peter Murray [log in to unmask] tel:+1-678-235-2955 Assistant Director http://dltj.org/about/ Lyrasis -- Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/