To fully enable global participation in the service, bio-era has secured a password protected, collaborative workspace hosted by PowerSteering Software. The bio-era-branded Swine Flu workspace is designed to support collaborative contributions and information exchange among enrolled participants, while keeping all contributions fully private to the participants, organized and easily accessed. Once enrolled, service participants will be invited to establish a personal password and profile. The workspace enables participants to:

• access relevant research documents and web-postings
• participate in group discussions
• privately communicate with bio-era or other service participants
• receive email alerts with links to documents and discussion items posted to the workspace (and to turn off such alerts if desired)