Community of Practice

Community of practice

• Description: Support groups of individuals with similar work responsibilities but who are not part of a formally designated work team. Many communities of practice communicate through a web-based system. For more information have a look at ewenger.com

• Other definitions: Search the web

• Examples for applications of COP's in forest management: A COP on Forest Policy - Forest Practice ; Community of Practice for Forest Observations; Community of Practice on Forest Financing in Latin America; (US forest planners) ; EcosystemCommons (ecosystem services) ;iemHUB (development, evaluation, and application of environmental models) ;Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Network (marine); U Redlands Spatial Decision Support Knowledgebase

• Examples for applications of COP's in natural resource management: www.e-agriculture.org - people exchange information, ideas, and resources related to the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for sustainable agriculture and rural development; aims.fao.org - CoP for accessing and discussing agricultural information management standards, tools and methodologies];

• Examples for tools to develope COP's:phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system for easy maintenance of interactive, community-driven web sites;