Several historical and technical developments are helping to change the way we live now and will live in the future. The Internet, as we all know, is rapidly connecting millions of people throughout the world to a massive (and still evolving) assortment of services, applications, information, and, perhaps most importantly, to other people, individually and in organizations. At the same time that the use of the Internet is growing so rapidly among the world's citizenry the computer science discipline of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is concentrating nearly all its energy on corporate work. In this presentation I will concentrate on the idea of computer supported community work, an infrequently explored perspective that shifts the focus from corporate to "community" work. Community work encompasses a wide range of important activities including participation in local politics, social service, medical self-help, economic development, and social activism. I will discuss why this new perspective is important, how it differs from "traditional" CSCW, and what work we might pursue in the future. Finally, while I'm visiting I would like to discuss how this perspective fits with the goals and methodology of the "Community Computing" projects at the Ishida Laboratory and other labs in Japan.