Actant Collections Categories

Geographic Actants

These are actants that matter to all stakeholders in a specific geographic area such as a city, a rural area, a country or the globe.

Sector Actants

These are actants that are used in specific industrial sectors or scientific disciplines. Typically they are created and consulted by specialists or professionals.

Sector actants are included depending on the cases that we elaborate.

• Agriculture
• Education
• Environmental Sustainability
• Health Care
• Programmes
• Socio-economic Development

NGO Actants

The NGO Actants are added for interactions (typically supporting campaigns) that do not directly involve public sector agencies.

Actant Information Included

For each actant in the dictionary, a pattern is provided.

These parts are included for each actant:

• a name and reference part;
• a description
• the geographic areas for which the actant exists
• AS IS part
• TO BE part (if improvements to the actant are required and possible)

In the AS IS and TO BE part, the content options for the actant are compared. It contrasts the prevailing practices with a situation in which use is made of the systematized content commons. An estimate of content semiotic performance is based on the principles explained in Content (Ens Dictionary).

The extra attention dedicated to the semiotic performance of content is because overcoming inefficiencies in knowledge markets¹ is a main driver for creating systematized content commons².