Abstract: A method and system for the distributed elicitation and aggregation of risk information is provided. The method comprises selecting a risk network, the risk network comprising one or more risk nodes having associated risk information; assigning a role to each risk node, said role indicating a type of user to evaluate the risk node; generating a customized survey to elicit risk information for a risk node based upon the role and the user, wherein an order of questions in the customized survey presented to the user is determined by an ordering criteria; publishing the customized survey to the user; collecting risk information for the risk node from the user's answers to the customized survey; and populating the risk nodes based on the collected risk information.