GRF · Information Integrity and Public Trust
Mandate, publisher and status
Information Integrity and Public Trust is published by Global Risks Forum (GRF), a Swiss association with a public-good, not-for-profit purpose and one of the three pillar institutions of the Nexus Consortium. Its mandate is trust and information quality under stress: how institutions communicate risk honestly, how information ecosystems behave in a crisis and how responses to false information can protect freedom of expression. It does not fact-check, moderate or rate media or platforms. This page sets out the mandate, who answers for it, the professional status of those who take part, its limits and its state of development.
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Mandate, publisher and status in six parts.
- 01MandateTrust and information quality under stress
- 02RemitReliable information for risk, with expression protected
- 03Publisher and professional statusWho is responsible, and in what capacity people take part
- 04LimitsWhat the platform does not do
- 05How it is designed to workFrom question to reviewed output
- 06SourcesWhere this page's references lead
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.
Scope
Information and public trust, with links to society and human development.
Who takes part
Media researchers, science communicators, public institutions and integrity experts.
What it is designed to publish
Public trust research, communication guidelines and information integrity cases.
Reliable information for risk, with expression protected.
Information Integrity is the specialist community, 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.
Who is responsible, and in what capacity people take part.
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 an established platform. Activities, records and services are published as each one opens.
- Open for 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 public servants take part in their professional capacity. Participation does not commit their organisations, and editorial independence of participating media is respected.
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.
From question to reviewed output.
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Question
Research questions come from the topics and from practitioners, and are scoped in research and evidence.
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Ethics
Studies involving people or their data pass ethics review and follow data protection law before they begin.
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Review
Outputs are reviewed by named specialists, and the same evidence standards apply to all sources and viewpoints.
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Publication
Reviewed outputs appear on the publications page; dialogue records only where participants agree.
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.
Is the platform a separate organisation?
Is the platform operating?
Who can I contact?
Bring a governance question to the Forum.
Information and enquiries are open today. 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.
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