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# Concept 2 - Community of Practice

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**This concept is for a peer-to-peer community of practice, which supports a wide variety of people in the environmental conservation sector to connect, share and engage in shared work.**

Whilst this is technologically-enabled, essentially this is a socio-cultural intervention which focuses on enabling greater connection, trust and skill building, from which could emerge the collective capacity to tackle any challenge facing the sector over time.

#### Aim: 

Tackle the challenges of lack of capacity building opportunities in the sector, by creating a peer-to-peer community model. The aim of this is to increase the number of regular interactions and culture of knowledge creation and sharing across the sector.

#### Hypothesis: 

By improving access to capacity building and new relationships, new possibilities emerge for how the sector can respond to challenges it faces. By addressing this with a cultural approach, the sector can change the design and intent of the system (the most powerful leverage points for systems change).

#### Model:

To make it a sustainable intervention, the community of practice would be free to join, with a fee for certain services such as a fellowship, prototyping coaching and potentially a marketplace fee. This would enable it to be financially feasible for individuals, members from small community groups, as well as enterprise clients.

#### Learning goals:

* Investigate what areas of capacity building are highest priorities.
* Investigate how to enable participatory design and development of a community of practice from within the environmental sector.
* Explore how to bridge skills and capabilities which don’t exist in the sector, but are needed.
* Explore social enterprise business models which mirror advancements in the platform cooperative movement, to ensure the community of practice is owned and controlled by the sector.

## Website

An example landing page for the concept:

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