The Community of interest

A community of interest is a made up group individuals who share either an identity, or of the experiments and concerns. It is composed people who are personally touched by a common problem, either directly, or in their entourage. Membership at a community of this type assistance to include/understand, interpret their condition and to seek solutions with the problems which they can encounter.

The community of interest is not of comparable nature only the Communauté of practice.

Origin

The concept of community of interest was introduced by J.C.R. Licklider and Robert Taylor into an article entitled " The Computer ace has Communications Device" which precedes the Internet of today:

" communities will Be communities not off common hiring, goal off common interest. In each field, the overall community off interest will broad Be enough to support has understanding system off field-oriented programs and data." (ibid, pg. *38)

Description

The people of a community of interest exchange ideas on the same passion, while being interested little in the others apart from this field. The participation at a community of interest can be constraining or diverting and create a narrow community `' where people frequently return and remain for long periods.

One can find communities of interest for example on football, the music lovers on MP3 the Small and medium-size companies,…

The communities of interest must have a vocabulary shared for exchanged information. They play a big role in the dissemination of information.

The communities of interest are not necessarily related to an geographical area.

The people or organizations which in common have interests with a company or a administration are called Recipients ( stakeholders ).

Examples

The Francophonie constitutes an example of community of interest, between people who share the same language, the French language, as well as a French-speaking culture and French.

In a general way, the Speech communities are examples of communities of interest.

It should be noted that the concept of community of interest one of the three key elements of the strategy given in Network-is centered ( Network-centric dated strategy , NCDS) of the Department of Defense of the United States, and is employed in the Cadre of architecture DoDAF to define given to divide.

One finds the communities following:

  • Global Forces Management (GFM) Dated Initiative (DI),
  • Global Forces Management - Air Force (GFM-AF),
etc

It is also employed in the Cadre of architecture MODAF, qu identifies six communities of interest:

  • Concepts and doctrines;
  • the logistic Community (sustainment deskbook);
  • Acquisition;
  • Integrated Product TEAM (IPT);
  • Customer 1;
  • Customer 2.

See: Documentation on MODAF

The Cadre of architecture of NATO also includes/understands communities of interest (ten).

See: PIMS communities off Interest

Other types of communities in connection with this concept

The communities of interest can have common points or relations with:

  • communities of action
  • communities of circumstance
  • communities of position
  • the the Communities of practice
  • communities of objective

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