We've just created the PolicyOptionsWiki to support the collaborative writing, editing, and updating of PolicyOption Issue Briefs.

In this first phase of the PolicyOptions.org Initiative, we are concentrating our energies on working with faculty and students on campuses to incorporate issue briefs as a form of public policy community-based research in academic courses and internships. The PolicyOptions Wiki will serve as the platform for collaborative research on issue briefs.

We are using the MediaWiki open source software that powers Wikipedia and many other similar websites. It has many features that will be helpful to our efforts, including the pages for readers and authors to discuss individual pages, be notified via email of changes to pages, and the use of templates which will help us maintain a common format for the issue briefs.

This effort is part of the recently funded Learn & Serve America grant which was awarded to Princeton University's Community-Based Learning Initiative in a partnership with the Bonner Foundation.

If you are interested in learning more, please visit the wiki site at www.policyoptionswiki.org or contact me directly at rhackett@bonner.org.