Actors. 1. The Parties acknowledge that governments play a central role in defining and implementing priorities and strategies for their countries. They recognise the crucial role of parliaments in shaping and adopting legislation, agreeing budgets and holding governments to account. They acknowledge the role and contribution of local authorities in enhancing democratic accountability and complementing governmental action.
2. The Parties recognise the important role of sub-regional, regional, continental and intercontinental organisations in achieving the objectives of this Agreement, in particular those of the Regional Protocols.
3. The Parties acknowledge the important role and contribution of stakeholders, in all forms and national characteristics, namely civil society, economic and social partners, including trade union organisations, and the private sector, and agree to promote and strengthen their effective participation with a view to fostering more inclusive and multi-stakeholder policy processes. For those purposes, the Parties shall ensure that all those stakeholders, where appropriate, are informed and consulted on strategies and sectoral policies, provide input into the broad process of dialogue, receive capacity building in critical areas and participate in the implementation of cooperation programmes in the areas that concern them. Such participation in cooperation programmes shall be based on the extent to which they address the needs of the population and on their specific competencies, and have accountable and transparent governance structures.
Actors. 1. The Parties acknowledge that governments play a central role in defining and implementing priorities and strategies for their countries. They recognise the crucial role of parliaments in shaping and adopting legislation, agreeing budgets and holding governments to account. They acknowledge the role and contribution of local authorities in enhancing democratic accountability and complementing governmental action.
2. The Parties recognise the important role of sub-regional, regional, continental and intercontinental organisations in achieving the objectives of this Agreement, in particular those of the three Regional Protocols.
1. The Parties acknowledge that governments play a central role in defining and implementing priorities and strategies for their countries. They recognise the crucial role of parliaments in shaping and adopting legislation, agreeing budgets and holding governments to account. They acknowledge the role and contribution of local authorities in enhancing democratic accountability and complementing governmental action.
2. The Parties recognise the important role of sub-regional, regional, continental and intercontinental organisations in achieving the objectives of this Agreement, in particular those of the three Regional Protocols.
3. The Parties acknowledge the important role and contribution of stakeholders, in all forms and national characteristics, namely civil society, economic and social partners, including trade union organisations, and the private sector, and agree to promote and strengthen their effective participation with a view to fostering more inclusive and multi-stakeholder policy processes. For these purposes, the Parties shall ensure that all these stakeholders, where appropriate, are informed and consulted on strategies and sectoral policies, provide input into the broad process of dialogue, receive capacity building in critical areas and participate in the implementation of cooperation programmes in the areas that concern them. Such participation in cooperation programmes shall be based on the extent to which they address the needs of the population and on their specific competencies, and have accountable and transparent governance structures.
Actors. In UML an actor is a behavioral classifier which specifies a role played by an external entity that interacts with a system (e.g., by exchanging signals and data). The term "role" is used informally to group users that require specific services from the system, modeled within associated use cases. When an external entity interacts with the system, it plays the role of a specific actor. Such an entity may play several different roles. In turn, a specific role may be played by one or more entities. [2] In the present document, the aforementioned UML system is a blockchain-based key registry for DER devices (“Blockchain”) as described in [1]. The term Blockchain (with a capital B) includes all elements belonging to a blockchain implementation, including consensus nodes, API Servers to read from and write to the blockchain, and governance mechanisms.
Actors. The EU Member States Competent Authorities and official control services are affected by the current situation and should be consulted. The following stakeholders in the food chain are also concerned: Agricultural commodities exporting countries (regulatory authorities and relevant operators); Crops traders; Transporters; EU grain crushers/processors (for food and feed uses); EU food sector, including SMEs; EU retailing sector. Organisations dealing with consumer protection and rights, environmental protection etc, should also be consulted. In order to perform the study, the contractor should collect data and views from the abovementioned actors (including individual companies and/or professional organisations).
Actors. This section narrows the FLAME target down from the list of stakeholder categories to actors. Actor does not mean experimenter, but any stakeholder that can play a role in the FLAME platform. This section relates the FLAME stakeholders to the FLAME platform architecture depicted in Figure 14, detailing the interactions between them and the platform. In this way, the mentioned stakeholders become platform actors.
1. The following discusses the relationship with the platform for the different kinds of media service providers. Network function providers. This category includes the network operators, such as the telecom operators, which we have already explained as media service providers in the access networks. In this sense, this actor can play two different roles in FLAME. On one hand, a media service provider that wants to test the distribution capabilities of the FLAME technical approach. On the other hand, a network infrastructure provider for the access network or for another point of the distribution resources. Infrastructure providers, facility providers and equipment managers. These actors own (and probably exploit) the physical infrastructures (at the bottom of Figure 14) over which the FLAME platform is deployed. It must be taken into account that these actors are not regular telecom operators, but instead owners or managers of a physical infrastructure deployed in a certain geographical area, such as a city, a campus, a trade fairy or a sport stadium. These actors provide the infrastructure but in the case of FLAME replication, these actors will also integrate the complete FLAME platform, as depicted in Figure 14. Technology providers for city services. Although FLAME focus is put on media service, the FLAME platform could also support other kind of city services that take advantage of the FLAME benefits and the virtualised, programmable network deployed on the city physical infrastructure. These actors would interact with the FLAME platform in different ways, such as providing services as users or providing technology to deploy services supported on the FLAME platform. End users (home and business) / content consumers / customers. This category includes the stakeholders that extract information from the user consumption and behaviour. Final users will interact with the FLAME platform in the service endpoints, by means of applications. Concerning
Actors. A social network is comprised of actors. These are the individuals, groups and collectivities within a network and also all the other tools or available material and technology that is available for the networks. In cases, the networks themselves can also be viewed as actors, when assuming collective behaviours and interacting with other networks. Yet, actors are not behaving in oblivion of, or regardless of, their surroundings. When acting, humans are related, connected and bound to various factors that influence how they go about their acts. The act carried out and all of the influencing factors should be considered altogether. Actors and networks are then linked together with all of their influencing factors (which again are in some way linked or interconnected). Actors within networks reproduce and modify their network ties. The role of peripheral actors is indeed important as they seek alternative sources of resources (Xxxx, 1977), exert influence via strategic uses of the network, by using brokers to bring together parties and mobilising the centrally located actors to gain support. At the same time, central actors enjoy timely and easy access to information as well as a climate of trust and trustworthiness. Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx (2000), postulate that peripheral actors may choose to remain in such a position in order to ―avoid mobilising the opposition (centrally located actors) and have minimal obligations to others‖ than otherwise positioned, and add that ―compared to the peripheral actor, the centrally located, who have honour and a number of obligations, may be much more constrained in action than the peripheral actor‖ (p. 656). In other words, the power of centrality may be dwarfed under the big weight of obligations. On the other hand, central actors, undoubtedly, enjoy access to more resources and information. This ―dance‖ of power, access, obligations and ties seems to find central actors reacting to the periphery, who often initiate actions in the network. What could be expected is that ―people and organisations will alter their strategies based on the organisational resources they have, like network position, the opportunity to take action and the existence of opposition‖ (Xxxxxxxxxxx, 1984, p. 148). Nevertheless, what should not be overlooked is that the position of the actor within the network reveals the potential for action and not the specific action that may actually take place. Each individual decision is a kind of ongoing, filterin...
Actors. I understand that physical appearance is one of many factors considered when casting a production and that my physical appearance was considered at auditions. I agree not to alter my appearance until after the show closes without first getting approval from the director. Examples of such changes include changing hair length, style, or color or getting piercings or tattoos.
Actors. In terms of actors, LFMs build on the same principles as balancing markets, although with some nuances. As discussed in section 2.1, the actors operating on the balancing markets are system operators (TSOs), BRPs and BSPs. In case of LFMs, system operators are primarily DSOs as the relevant flexibility resources are connected to the distribution grid. The DSOs act as buyers on the LFMs and procure the flexibility services they need for the operation of their network [28]. Yet, TSOs can also buy flexibility services [29], although they will most likely not directly buy them from LFMs, but rather expect that local flexibility is aggregated on the LFM and then offered to the balancing markets. Please note that either DSOs or third parties can act as market operators [30], as in the case of traditional wholesale electricity markets (day ahead and intraday). BRPs in an LFM will buy the flexibility they need “to optimize their portfolio and realize their energy obligations”[31]. This means that DSOs may not act as the sole buyers on LFMs or that these markets consist of various components, one for DSOs, the other for BRPs. In any case, the equivalent of BSPs will sell the flexibility services. On LFMs, BSPs could be called flexibility service providers (FSPs). In fact, BRPs and FSPs can involve several different actors – such as producers, suppliers or large or aggregated customers – which can take both roles at the same time or alternatively. Indeed, Xxx, Xx and Xxx argue that “BRPs can be retailers, generators or aggregators”[32], which also holds true for FSPs. As specificity of LFMs and by contrast to balancing markets, aggregators are particularly important for the proper functioning of LFMs [33].
Actors. In the present paragraph we identified the different actors authorised to use Arrow when this will become a widely used service. They are here grouped in three categories: access users, metadata providers and system managers.
Actors. Narrators
