"Ecosystem Roles"

"Ecosystem Roles
1. Participants
Ecosystem participants are involved in the key activities: they provide value on one hand (producers) and consume value on the other (consumers). Sometimes, the same participant behaves as a producer or consumer in different moments of interaction: these are roles that one participant can play. Participants can be of different kinds: individuals, organizations, teams…
Most often, beyond the value traded, new value is created in the interaction: as simple as that.
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2. (Platform) Shapers  [Moi ici: É preciso ter locus de controlo no interior]
Shapers normally provide value to the ecosystem in two different ways: design, execute and evolve contexts for interaction [Moi ici: "relationships are not zero sum games"] (infrastructures, channels), and actively provide services to generate liminal learning and continuous staged improvement.
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4. (Platform) Stakeholders
External Stakeholders are normally those players that — even if not directly interacting in ecosystem relationships — are interested or impacted by the positive or negative externalities deriving from the ecosystem actualization through the platform.
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Despite one cannot actually own ecosystems, some entity can certainly own/control a platform strategy, as the latter is made of technology, data and information, narrative, human activities and more."

Trechos retirados de "The Future of Ecosystemic Design"