National and regional participation
Missions in Nexus Universe come from national and regional programmes. A national or regional programme proposes a mission with an accountable owner and a question worth testing; the technical office of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) qualifies its data, methods and resources; and The Global Risks Forum (GRF) records an admission decision at gate G1, with reasons. National structures keep their agenda authority throughout and may decline participation or data sharing at any point. Mission calls open only when an edition is authorised; none is on record yet.
- Institution
- The Global Risks Forum (GRF)
- Service level
- R0: information and enquiries
- 01QuestionNational, regional or institutional priority
- 02EvidenceSTEM foundation of the platform
- 03BuildNexus Foundry
- 04OrganizeNexus Ecosystem
- 05TestNexus Universe (independent site)
- 06PublishNexus Reports
- 07DecideCompetent authorities and institutions, through Nexus Rails
- 08RenewCorrections and the next annual agenda
The short answer.
National and regional participation in Nexus Universe starts when a programme proposes a mission with an accountable owner and a question worth testing; the GCRI technical office qualifies its data, methods and resources, and GRF records an admission decision at gate G1, with reasons. Countries keep control of their contribution.
Scoping to review.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
Jurisdictions in the Gulf.
The jurisdictions that hold authority over this question: countries, their first-level divisions and capitals, shown for the Gulf as an example geography for this subject.
Four steps for a mission.
- 01
Propose
A national or regional programme proposes a mission with an accountable owner, a question worth testing and the institutions that will act on the result.
- 02
Qualify
GCRI's technical office qualifies data, methods and resources. Contributed infrastructure moves through separate states, from offered to accepted.
- 03
Admit
GRF records an admission decision at gate G1, with its reasons, against the published criteria.
- 04
Build, test and publish
Admitted missions pass through the build month, the action week and review. Results return to the national programme that proposed them.
What a national proposal contains.
| Field | Example (illustrative) |
|---|---|
| Question | Can the coastal province and the national grid operator coordinate load shedding during a storm surge? |
| Accountable owner | The provincial civil protection authority |
| Institutions to exercise | Provincial authority, grid operator, port authority, hospital network |
| Arrangement under test | Draft escalation protocol, version stated |
| Data contributed | Asset locations under a stated licence |
| Publication consent | Summary only |
Contributed data stays under national rules.
Data contributed by a national programme remains governed by that country's law and the terms under which it was shared. It is used only in the mission it was contributed for, unless the contributor agrees otherwise, and is removed at the end of the edition if the terms say so. Technical handling is by GCRI's Nexus Registry.
What GRF weighs at gate G1.
| Criterion | The question asked |
|---|---|
| Materiality | Does the risk matter to the institutions and people concerned? |
| National demand | Has a competent national or regional structure asked for it? |
| Cross-system dependence | Does it test how systems and institutions depend on each other? |
| Evidence gap | Will testing reduce a real uncertainty? |
| Tractability | Can it be tested meaningfully in one action week? |
| Capability value | Will the participants be more capable afterwards? |
| Safeguards | Are rights, safety and protected knowledge covered? |
| Resource feasibility | Are qualified data, people and infrastructure available? |
| A competent recipient | Is there an institution with authority to act on the result? |
An offer is not an allocation.
Computing, network and technical environments contributed by national programmes move through separate states, and none implies the next: offered, qualified, reserved, allocated, accessible, measured and accepted.
Neither membership nor sponsorship secures mission admission or a computing allocation. A country listed in the consortium geography does not, by that fact, have a constituted programme.
Countries keep control of their contribution.
National agenda authority
National structures decide what to propose, and may decline participation or data sharing at any point.
Data under agreed rights
Data is used only under the rights agreed for the mission, and nothing is shared without agreement.
Results return home
Findings return to the national programme, which decides how to use them under its own authority.
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mission theme | A subject a platform proposes for controlled testing in the annual Nexus Universe programme; a theme is a proposal until the programme confirms an exercise. |
| Stage gate | A review point at which a project must show set evidence before moving to the next phase. |
| Country ownership | The principle that a country leads its own development policies and strategies and coordinates the actions that support them, set out in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. |
Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Questions and answers.
Can our country propose a mission now?
Who decides whether a mission is admitted?
What if a mission is not admitted?
Where is national participation described more broadly?
Around GRF.
Start with an enquiry.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.