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Each platform declares its STEM foundation, so a claim on the platform can be traced to a method, a data source and its limits.
Specialist network Platforms STEM + field
Specialist communities of GCRI
Specialist platforms, grounded in science.
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) works through specialist platforms: communities of scientists, engineers and practitioners who apply named methods to one field or one shared service. Eleven platforms are established at their current addresses on therisk.global and nineteen more are in development at their own. The network covers GCRI as a whole, through GCRI Canada and GCRI US.
Network registerFrom the platform portfolio
- 01Field platforms05
- 02Ecosystem services06
- 03STEM CommonsOne page per method
- 04Counterparts at GRF and GRAEight shared fields
- 05In development19
Each platform names its legal publisher · service level R0
01In brief
The short answer.
The GCRI specialist network is the set of thirty platforms through which GCRI studies its fields as science: eleven established platforms, among them Water Nexus, Health Nexus and Nexus Foundry, and nineteen in development. Each platform declares its STEM foundation, its counterparts at GRF and GRA and its status, so a claim can be traced to a method and a source.
- Established
- 11
- At their current roots on therisk.global
- In development
- 19
- At their canonical roots on therisk.global
- GCRI platforms
- 30
- Fields and ecosystem services in all
- Whole network
- 63
- GCRI, GRF and GRA: 28 established, 35 in development
02STEM + field
A platform is a community applying named methods to a field.
Water Nexus is science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) applied to water: hydrologists, engineers, data scientists and practitioners who use stated methods on water questions and publish what they find. Grounding every platform in its methods does three things.
Links that mean something
Platforms that use the same method meet on it. A flood scientist and a catastrophe modeller meet on extreme value theory, the method they share.
One loop
Methods are what Nexus Foundry implements, what the annual Nexus Universe programme tests and what Nexus Reports publishes, so a question can be followed to a corrected result.
Fig. 01The specialist network as a directory of platforms.Illustrative interface; placeholder values, not results.
03Field platforms
Five fields where the systems meet.
The field platforms follow the systems at the centre of the Nexus approach. Each studies its field together with the others it depends on.
- Field platformWater NexusThe interdependence of water services, watersheds, human health, energy, food and economic resilience. Basin scientists, utilities and municipal engineers; hydrologic modelling, catchment mapping, scenario uncertainty.
- Field platformEnergy NexusEnergy systems, transitions, reliability and the cross-sector dependencies that sustain society. Grid engineers, utility operators and energy economists; adequacy models, outage and asset resilience.
- Field platformFood NexusFood-system security and resilience, from land and production through supply chains, nutrition and access. Agricultural scientists, food processors and logistics experts; crop and climate analysis, supply-dependency mapping.
- Field platformHealth NexusHealth security and wellbeing through resilient health systems and cross-sector evidence. Public health, clinicians and One Health scientists; epidemiological methods, facility continuity, access analysis.
- Field platformBiodiversity NexusEcosystem integrity, biodiversity loss and nature-related risks to human and economic systems. Ecologists, land managers and community stewards; habitat observation, ecological indicators, remote sensing.
04Ecosystem services
Six services the whole network relies on.
The service platforms hold the records, tests, tools, expertise, publications and public participation that every field platform uses.
- Ecosystem serviceNexus RegistryPublic-safe records of programmes, evidence, publication status and correction histories, subject to owner authority. Record views, record methods and a status glossary.
- Ecosystem serviceNexus CampaignsPublic-interest communication, participation and campaign-specific knowledge mobilization. Campaign explainers and responsible participation guides.
- Ecosystem serviceNexus LabsInterdisciplinary experiments, technical research, methods and supervised innovation challenges. Experimental protocols, reproducibility records and findings.
- Ecosystem serviceNexus FoundryThe public gateway to the technical work environment, while project permissions stay within Foundry. A capability catalogue, installation guidance and technical examples.
- Ecosystem serviceNexus AgencyCompetence-based technical assistance and expert-matching enquiries under explicit terms and mandates. Expert pathways and capacity maps.
- Ecosystem serviceNexus ReportsVersioned research spanning global, national, sector, technology and annual programme findings. Series catalogues, sources, figures and corrections.
The work each platform supports through GCRI is described on GCRI programmes and services.
Process canvas · the cycle as a run graphDesign, not a record
Fig.A computational graph of the Nexus cycle: nodes with their type, metrics and state, connectors for what feeds what, the owners as groups, the year as a run timeline. Design, not a record of a run.
05The STEM Commons
One shared library of methods for the whole network.
The STEM Commons gives each method one canonical page on therisk.global, hosted by GCRI. Each method has one steward platform responsible for its quality, and every platform that applies it shows how it is used in that field. Its pages are published as each one opens.
For example, the page on extreme value theory in water covers flood return periods, changing climate and the limits of short records, and links to the same method as used in catastrophe insurance.
Science
Hydrology, climate, ecology, epidemiology, economics and decision science, among others.
Technology
Earth observation, geospatial systems, AI, computing, communications and cybersecurity.
Engineering
Systems, reliability and resilience, power, water, structural and safety-critical engineering.
Mathematics and data
Statistics, extreme value theory, uncertainty, network science, forecasting and scenario design.
06Counterparts
Three faces of a field: science, governance and finance.
The same field is studied as science at GCRI, governed at The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and examined for finance at The Global Risks Alliance (GRA). Counterpart platforms link to each other and keep their own publisher and voice.
| Shared field | Science at GCRI | Governance at GRF | Finance at GRA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate and hazards | Water, Energy, Food and Biodiversity Nexus; Climate and Hazards (in development) | Diplomacy Nexus; Climate and Nature Governance (in development) | Insurance Nexus, Banking Nexus; Reinsurance and Catastrophe (in development) |
| Health and biosecurity | Health Nexus; Biotechnology and Biosecurity (in development) | Health and Biosecurity Governance (in development) | Insurance Nexus |
| Biodiversity and nature | Biodiversity Nexus | Climate and Nature Governance (in development) | Asset Management Nexus; Climate and Nature Financial Risk (in development) |
| Critical infrastructure | Water and Energy Nexus; Critical Infrastructure (in development) | Disaster and Crisis Governance (in development) | Development Finance Nexus |
| Research and evidence | Nexus Registry, Labs and Reports | Research Nexus | No counterpart yet |
| Governance and institutions | Nexus Registry and Agency | Governance Nexus | Financial Regulation Nexus |
| Development finance | Nexus Agency | Capital Nexus | Development Finance Nexus |
| Innovation | Nexus Labs | Innovation Nexus | No counterpart yet |
Full directories: GRF governance platforms and GRA industry platforms.
07In development
Nineteen more fields, each at its own address.
Each of these platforms is in development: its pages set out its scope and how it works, and activities, records and services are published as each opens. Until then, each follows the current service level, R0, information and enquiries.
- In developmentSystemic Risk ManagementRisk management that sees interdependence, uncertainty, cascading loss and the human consequences of decisions. Methods: Decision analysis under uncertainty · Scenario design and stress testing · 4 more.
- In developmentClimate and HazardsPhysical climate risks, weather extremes and hazard interactions grounded in observed and modelled evidence. Methods: Climate and atmospheric science · Earth and geophysical science · 8 more.
- In developmentDisaster Resilience and RecoveryRisk reduction, readiness, emergency systems and recovery capacities across communities and institutions. Methods: Decision analysis under uncertainty · Social and behavioural science · 6 more.
- In developmentCritical InfrastructureReliability and resilience of lifeline infrastructure and the services on which communities and economies rely. Methods: Reliability and resilience engineering · Systems engineering · 10 more.
- In developmentCities and Built EnvironmentUrban development, buildings, mobility, infrastructure, housing and human-scale resilience. Methods: Structural and earthquake engineering · Urban and transport engineering · 7 more.
- In developmentTrade and Strategic ResourcesSupply networks, trade routes, critical minerals and strategic inputs that underpin industrial and national resilience. Methods: Network science and contagion · Optimization and operations research · 4 more.
- In developmentOceans and CoastsOceans, coastal ecosystems and built shoreline resilience at the junction of science and development. Methods: Ocean and coastal science · Earth observation and remote sensing · 5 more.
- In developmentArtificial Intelligence and Autonomous SystemsTrustworthy artificial intelligence, robotics-enabled autonomy, computational methods and social effects. Methods: Artificial intelligence and machine learning · AI evaluation and assurance engineering · 5 more.
- In developmentCybersecurity and Digital ResilienceSecurity, reliability and continuity of cyber-dependent services, devices and institutions. Methods: Cybersecurity and cryptography · Software and safety-critical systems engineering · 4 more.
- In developmentData and ComputeData infrastructure, national computational capacity and advanced computing in service of public knowledge. Methods: High-performance, cloud and edge computing · Data engineering, interoperability and stewardship · 5 more.
- In developmentQuantum TechnologiesQuantum science and technology convergence, opportunities, limitations and transition risks. Methods: Physics and quantum science · Quantum computing, sensing and communication · 3 more.
- In developmentSpace and Earth ObservationSpace systems and the Earth-observation technologies used for risk intelligence and sustainable development. Methods: Earth observation and remote sensing · Space systems and satellite services · 5 more.
- In developmentBiotechnology and BiosecurityBiotechnology, synthetic biology and biological safety at the convergence of health, agriculture and industry. Methods: Molecular and life sciences · Biotechnology platforms · 4 more.
- In developmentAdvanced Industry and RoboticsIndustrial innovation, automation, robotics and process resilience in changing production systems. Methods: Robotics and automation · Materials science and chemistry · 6 more.
- In developmentEconomic DevelopmentEconomic transformation, inclusive growth, industry, trade and development under systemic risk. Methods: Economics and development economics · Econometrics · 3 more.
- In developmentSociety and Human DevelopmentSocietal resilience, inequality, health, population change and the human consequences of risks and innovation. Methods: Social and behavioural science · Causal inference and impact evaluation · 2 more.
- In developmentFuture of Work and SkillsWork, automation, skill formation and institutional adaptation to fast technological change. Methods: Economics and development economics · Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 more.
- In developmentDigital Public InfrastructurePublic digital systems, interoperable institutions and the social conditions for responsible access. Methods: Digital identity and public digital systems · Data engineering, interoperability and stewardship · 4 more.
- In developmentSystems Science and ModellingThe shared mathematical and engineering foundation for every Nexus field: how coupled systems are modelled, tested, validated and explained, so that a flood model, a grid model and a contagion model can be compared and combined honestly. Methods: Systems engineering · Probability and statistics · 6 more.
Each card names the platform's thesis and the first methods of its STEM foundation; the full foundation is on the platform. Enquiries about any platform go to the Secretariat at contact@therisk.global and receive a reference; they do not create membership.
08Key terms
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this institution uses it on this page.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Specialist platform | A community website on therisk.global for one field, such as water or health, or one shared service, such as reports or testing, which names its methods and its legal publisher. |
| STEM + field | The rule that every platform is grounded in named methods from science, technology, engineering and mathematics applied to its field, so a claim traces to a method, data and limits. |
| STEM Commons | The shared library of methods hosted by GCRI: one canonical page per method, one steward platform responsible for its quality, and a page for each field that applies it. |
| In development | The state of a platform whose pages set out its scope and how it works, while its activities, records and services are published as each opens. |
09Questions
Questions about the specialist network.
What is a GCRI specialist platform?
A specialist platform is a community website on therisk.global for one field, such as water or health, or one shared service, such as reports or testing. It brings together the people who work on that subject and the methods they apply, and it is designed to name its legal publisher.
What does STEM + field mean?
It means each platform is grounded in named methods from science, technology, engineering and mathematics applied to its field. Water Nexus, for instance, applies hydrology, earth observation, extreme value theory and uncertainty analysis to water questions, so its claims can be traced to methods and data.
How do I join a platform community?
Start on the platform itself or write to experts@therisk.global. Experts and volunteers usually contribute through bounded, supervised assignments in the National Working Groups, described on Work with GCRI. Joining a community does not confer membership of a national programme, an appointment or access to restricted data.
What does "in development" mean?
It means the platform is in development: its pages set out its scope and how it works, and activities, records and services are published as each opens. Until then it follows the current service level, R0, information and enquiries, and it makes no claim of activity, members or publications.
How do GCRI platforms relate to those of GRF and GRA?
They are counterparts. GCRI platforms examine a field as science, GRF platforms examine how it is governed, and GRA platforms examine what the evidence means for responsible financial decisions. Each links to the others and keeps its own publisher.
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Around the specialist network.
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The Secretariat routes experts, research teams and institutions to the right platform and pathway; experts can also write to experts@therisk.global. An enquiry receives a reference; it does not create membership or an appointment.