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Mandate and publisher

Mandate, publisher and status

Information Integrity and Public Trust is published by The Global Risks Forum (GRF), a Swiss association with a public-good, not-for-profit purpose and one of the three pillar institutions of Nexus Consortiums. This page sets out the platform's subject mandate, who answers for it, the professional status of those who take part, the limits of its role and its current state of development.

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In this dossier7 parts
  1. 01In briefThe short answer
  2. 02MandateTrust and information quality under stress
  3. 03RemitReliable information for risk, with expression protected
  4. 04Publisher and professional statusWho is responsible, and in what capacity people take part
  5. 05LimitsWhat the platform does not do
  6. 06How it is designed to workFrom question to reviewed output
  7. 07Key termsTerms used on this page

GRF · In development · service level R0

STEM methods
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Canonical methods this field applies
Topics
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Subject pages in the field
Counterparts
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Platforms in shared fields at GCRI, GRF and GRA
Report series
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Nexus Reports series it contributes to
01In brief

The short answer.

Information Integrity and Public Trust is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Forum for information and public trust as well as society and human development. Its mandate covers trust, information quality, media governance and public communication under systemic stress and technological change. GRF publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is in development at service level R0, and activities open as each is ready.

02Canvas

Mandate to authority.

Canvas · mandate to authorityDesign, not a record
How Information Integrity and Public Trust is governedA mandate sets the platform's scope; an editor and reviewers govern what it publishes; programmes and the community supply the work; the integrity route handles corrections; authority over decisions stays outside. Design of the governance, not a record.

Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.

03Geography

People and hazards in Eastern Europe.

For mandate, publisher and status, in GRF's situational-awareness reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and flood water, framed on Eastern Europe; 2 further NASA layers wait in the list.

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Layers 3

People and hazards, for this page

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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For mandate, publisher and status, in GRF's situational-awareness reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and flood water, framed on Eastern Europe; 2 further NASA layers wait in the list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · GDACS · NASA EONETSources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), VIIRS 375 m active fire product, NASA LANCE; vector tiles via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Live: GDACS (EC JRC / UN OCHA) Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • Live: NASA EONET Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • Optional layers (5 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies, last day: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

04Mandate

Trust and information quality under stress.

The platform exists to strengthen understanding of how information ecosystems shape public trust and collective action on shared risks, and how institutions can communicate and govern information responsibly.

Field

Scope

Information and public trust, with links to society and human development.

Community

Who takes part

Media researchers, science communicators, public institutions and integrity experts.

Outputs

What it is designed to publish

Public trust research, communication guidelines and information integrity cases.

05Remit

Reliable information for risk, with expression protected.

Information Integrity is a proposed specialist community, in development, for the institutions that shape what people know in a crisis: warning authorities, public broadcasters, platforms, regulators, fact-checkers and community media. It works from the UN Global Principles for Information Integrity, the UNESCO platform guidelines and human rights law on expression, and asks how accurate information reaches people without unlawful restriction.

06Publisher and professional status

Who is responsible, and in what capacity people take part.

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) publishes Information Integrity and Public Trust and answers for its content under the rules in trust, rights and status.

  • Status: Information Integrity and Public Trust is in development. Activities, records and services are published as each one opens.
  • Service level: R0, information and enquiries.
  • Why a dedicated platform: it serves a distinct research and practitioner community around information ecosystems; it is not GRF's own communications function.
  • Journalists, researchers and officials take part in their professional capacity. Participation does not commit their organizations, and editorial independence of participating media is respected.
07Limits

What the platform does not do.

  • It does not regulate, finance, procure or certify, and it does not moderate content or rate the reliability of media outlets.
  • It does not run influence campaigns or communicate on behalf of any government, party or sponsor.
  • It does not monitor or profile individuals, and research involving personal data follows ethics review and data protection rules.
  • Hosting or sponsorship confers no authority over findings.

GRF convenes and governs programmes. It does not regulate, finance, procure or certify, and hosting or sponsorship confers no authority over findings.

08How it is designed to work

From question to reviewed output.

  1. 01

    Question

    Research questions come from the topics and from practitioners, and are scoped in research and evidence.

  2. 02

    Ethics

    Studies involving people or their data pass ethics review and follow data protection law before they begin.

  3. 03

    Review

    Outputs are reviewed by named specialists, and the same evidence standards apply to all sources and viewpoints.

  4. 04

    Publication

    Reviewed outputs appear on the publications page; dialogue records only where participants agree.

09Key terms

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.

TermDefinition
Service level R0The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment.
Conflict of interestA situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review.
Information integrityThe accuracy, consistency and reliability of information, supported by a plural and independent information ecosystem, as the UN Global Principles frame it.
DisinformationFalse or misleading information created or spread deliberately to deceive or cause harm.
10Sources

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.

11Questions

Questions and answers.

Is the platform a separate organization?
No. It is a specialist platform of The Global Risks Forum (GRF), which publishes it.
Is the platform operating?
It is in development. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.
Who can I contact?
Write to contact@globalriskforum.com or see contact the specialist team. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
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