The objective of establishing the Parents' Opinion Platform (or the "Platform") is to provide an open, free and credible platform for parents of Hong Kong students to express their views on education issues.

All parents of Hong Kong students can register as members of the Platform free of charge. “Hong Kong students” refer to those who study, local or abroad, in universities, secondary and primary schools, kindergartens, and pre-school education. Once registered, members may make submissions to the Platform, or conduct opinion surveys of Platform members. At registration, people are required to providing their real names and email addresses, but they can choose whether or not to provide their residential addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and so on. All personal information thus supplied will be kept confidential by POP except that all names in full will be published for public reference.

All registrations will be done online through Hong Kong People's Opinion Platform. Each Platform member will receive a password upon registration, which can be used to submit named or anonymous messages at the Platform. All responsibilities, legal and otherwise, arising from any such message shall vest entirely with its author. Platform members can change their designated passwords at any time. Shall there be any reasonable doubt, the Public Opinion Programme (POP) at the University of Hong Kong can require any Platform member to prove the authenticity of one's name by submitting more documents. Failure to comply may result in the cancellation of the user account by POP.

POP shall regularly update the personal information of Platform members free of charge. All information provided will only be used for conducting and analyzing opinion surveys.

POP will conduct three types of opinion gathering exercises relating to the development of education, namely, collecting open-ended opinions from Platform members, conducting online survey of Platform members and sample surveys of the general public. The topics and questions of these surveys will be proposed by sponsors or individual Platform members, who will also pay for the costs of running these surveys.

This Platform is expected to run for 12 months in the first instance starting from September 2007.