Welcome to the public face of CoPE, the Community of Practice Environment. The CoPE project is working to help correct the lack of Community Action on the internet. It provides web-based support for formal and informal groups to democratically work together and decide upon actions of common interest.

This site is essentially identical to any other CoPE site and has two major functions. This is where coordinators of various CoPE sites have established a community of practice. If you are coordinating a CoPE site, you should already be a member of this CoPE. Otherwise, you can login as "guest" with the password "1guest1".

There is a paper on CoPE in The Interent & Society 2006 conference. To view the paper, click here. For more information on the conference go to the conference website. The most closely related Community Action project is Deme.