If additional input from other groups is wanted, it can be specifically requested and arrangements can be made for such interactions to take place in the Solution Exchange, or in real time online interactions.

Because all proposals will be posted and updated as they develop, input will also come from Exchange readers. Different groups that are working on similar solutions will be posted in clusters that make interaction between them easier. Combining proposals between groups, as well as within them, will be encouraged whenever possible.

Participants in any or all of these formats will hopefully form and maintain strong ongoing relationships with each other. They might continue to meet to discuss evaluations of other Dialogue Network proposals in their problem area, or accept some other group’s solutions that they might want to join with. Any group might continue to meet to brainstorm strategies for the action phase of the program or they might decide to continue to meet and work with another problem when their own proposals have gone through the whole process.