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STEM foundation of Information Integrity and Public Trust

The science, technology, engineering and mathematics Information Integrity and Public Trust rests on. Each method has a canonical page in the STEM Commons, hosted by GCRI, and a page here on how it is applied in this field.

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Publisher
The Global Risks Forum
Field
Information and public trust, Society and human development
Status
In development
Service level
R0: information and enquiries

Method registry

Information integrity · 5 methods in use

Reviews currentGRF · Information Integrity and Public Trust

Methods in use

Social and behavioural science10Expert reviewQ2Current
Artificial intelligence and…12HindcastQ2Current
Network science and contagion11BenchmarkQ4Current

Selected method

Method
Social and behavioural science
Steward
Information integrity unit
Assumptions
stated on its page
Limits
what it cannot say, published

Skill on held-out data

050100score 0 to 1 by method, illustrativeSocial and…Artificial…Network…

Information Integrity and Public Trust · Method registryMethod registry, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.

01In brief

The short answer.

The Information Integrity and Public Trust STEM foundation is the set of canonical methods its findings depend on, from social and behavioural science to network science and contagion. Each method has a canonical STEM Commons page and a page here on its use in the information and public trust field.

02Canvas

Methods feeding this platform.

Canvas · methods feeding this platformDesign, not a record
STEM foundation of Information Integrity and Public Trust: responding to harmful informationPublic narratives are monitored; items are detected and their provenance verified; harm is assessed against a threshold; the response (correct, prebunk, label, escalate) is chosen and reported transparently. Design of the process, not a record of a run.

Fig.The methods this platform draws on and what each one feeds. Design, not a record.

03Geography

People and exposure in Eastern Europe.

For STEM foundation of information integrity and public trust, in GRF's situational-awareness reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and flood water, framed on Eastern Europe; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.

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Layers 3

People and exposure, 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 STEM foundation of information integrity and public trust, in GRF's situational-awareness reading, the map opens on population density, night lights and flood water, framed on Eastern Europe; 3 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
  • OMI nitrogen dioxide (Aura) and OMPS aerosol index (Suomi NPP), NASA; distributed by the NASA GES DISC; imagery 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 (9 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
  • Nitrogen dioxide, lower atmosphere column: OMI Aura, NASA GES DISC · 10 Oct 2026
  • Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026

04Methods

The methods behind the field.

  1. Social and behavioural scienceMeasuring trust and exposure · Testing interventions · Qualitative study of information needsSteward · Society and Human DevelopmentApplied here
    Canonical · STEM Commons
  2. Artificial intelligence and machine learningClassifier error in moderation · Synthetic media detection limits · Recommender auditsSteward · Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous SystemsApplied here
    Canonical · STEM Commons
  3. Network science and contagionDetecting coordinated behaviour · Tracing narrative spread · Mapping media ecosystemsSteward · Systems Science and ModellingApplied here
    Canonical · STEM Commons
05Key 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
STEM CommonsThe shared reference of science, technology, engineering and mathematics methods for the Nexus network, hosted by GCRI, with one canonical page per method and a named steward platform.
Steward platformThe platform that maintains the canonical description of a method in the STEM Commons and reviews how other platforms apply it.
Social and behavioural scienceSocial and behavioural science studies how individuals, groups and institutions think, act and organise.
Artificial intelligence and machine learningArtificial intelligence and machine learning develop algorithms that learn patterns from data to classify, predict or generate outputs.
06Why it matters

Grounding makes claims checkable.

When a finding names the methods it depends on, a reader can see its assumptions and limits, and an expert in that method can challenge it.

07Pages

Pages in STEM foundation of Information Integrity and Public Trust.

Method

Social and behavioural science for information integrity and public trust

Method

Artificial intelligence and machine learning for information integrity and public trust

Method

Network science and contagion for information integrity and public trust

08Questions

Questions and answers.

What is a steward platform?
The platform that maintains the canonical description of a method and reviews how it is applied across the Consortium.
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