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.

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• 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

• 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;