CORE ACTOR CONCEPTS Sample Clauses

CORE ACTOR CONCEPTS. The ‘actor’ concept comprises of the individuals and groups of individuals who are relevant to the domain i.e. it encompasses all of the responders, affected population, involved organizations etc. All groups and individuals have associated capacities, activities and needs. Actors Group Individual 5.4.3.1. Groups A ‘group’ describes a collection of individuals (based on the individuals’ common characteristics). The needs, capacities and activities of a group can be viewed as either a collation of the individual attributes of the grouping or described explicitly by the entity itself e.g. the International Red Cross may describe its own organizational/strategic needs, capacities and activities, without resorting to collating the needs, capacities and activities of its individual members. Both individuals and groups are described as ‘actors’ in the domain. Each group is defined by a set of characteristics of the individuals that make up the group. Such characteristics include age, locality, profession, group membership, employer etc. For example, a ‘local community’ group can be defined as all those individuals living in a certain district within a city. Each group will have associated collective capacities, needs and activities which are derived from the individual members of the grouping. Some groupings will also have. Every individual will be a member of at least one group, group membership can also change over time and location. Individuals may, or may not, be aware that they are part of a particular group e.g. an individual may be aware that they are part of the IRC group because they have the same employer as other individuals but unaware that they are part of an ‘at risk’ group due to their commonality in current location. This approach, of allowing groups to be defined by a flexible list of characteristics, gives flexibility to the model. This flexibility is required to reconcile the data framework to the analytical functionalities required by COBACORE e.g. one particular functional requirement, described in section 3, is to enable ‘Basic recovery views’ which provides professional users with “options to build data views that are relevant to understanding the recovery process, and thus provide a basis for further analysis and plan-definition”; this type of dynamic understanding of the situation is only possible when groups can be defined ‘ad-hoc’ by professionals. 5.4.3.2. Individuals Each individual will belong to one of more groups based on their ch...