The tracing of the actor network supported the identification of the key actors influencing the collaborative DSS implementation and institutionalization

Lesson

ID
Has statement	The tracing of the actor network supported the identification of the key actors influencing the collaborative DSS implementation and institutionalization
Has evidence	By defining the oligoptica of mediators (those actors - people, technologies, and the networks of people and technologies that underlay technologies - that behave in unexpected ways) local networks of actors could be traced through the unexpected changes they can cause. Also we traced the predictable (Intermediary) actors. To be more concrete, we traced the new and unpredictable technologies that show the impact of climate change and that aid in decision making (as mediators) and the network of people and technologies involved in the current planning process (intermediaries) that will need to drift and accommodate change from a forest planning process that does not to a forest planning process that does include climate change.
Has consequences	It is important to have this understanding so that it is anticipated what it takes to change a stable network of actors ensembled in the current planning process to a new stable network and hence institutionalize the new DSS technologies
Has recommendation for action	One could use actor network theory to understand stability of current forest plannin actor network and undertstand what it takes to institutionalize new actant technologies.
Has domain	Ongoing development
Has DSS development stage
Has decision stage
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context	Spatial with neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Forest level, Regional/national level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has goods and services dimension	Market services, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension	More than one decision maker/stakeholder
Has country	Germany
Has reference
Has related DSS
Has related case	Germany-Actor Network Theory to Understand Collaborative Decision Support Systems Development in Forest Management Practice
Has related lesson	Visualization of the preliminary actor network made the people explicity include the DSS in a planning process.
Has other relevant information
Has working group theme	Participation
Has DSS development
Has decision support techniques
Has knowledge management processes
Has support for social participation
Has actor perspective	Developer/Architect, Researcher
Has researcher role
Has user role
Has developer role

• has related Lesson:The analysis of the actor network interactions allowed to identify the criticalities to be solved in order to develop the collaborative process, The tracing of the current actor network interactions made the group realize that they need a different kind of stakeholders from what they previously thought

The Decision Support System has not been given a name yet. It seems to becoming a chain of various decision support systems, models and data.