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Test in Nexus Universe

Test in Nexus Universe

The mission themes Future of Work and Skills brings to the annual Nexus Universe programme, governed by The Global Risks Forum, with its own website at universe.nexus.

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The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
Field
Work and skills, Society and human development, Artificial intelligence
Status
In development
Service level
R0: information and enquiries

Action week

Nexus Universe · Future of work · Week 23

Week plannedGCRI · Future of Work and Skills

Tracks

controlled sessions

MonTueWedThuFri0910111213141516Youth transitions forumReskilling pathway designPlatform work dialogueSafety at work reviewStand-down and hot washObserver briefing

Observer notes

  1. O-1Escalation path unclear between cellsTrack 19 h
  2. O-2Data hand-off worked as designedTrack 29 h
  3. O-3Public message drafted before verificationTrack 37 h

Future of Work and Skills · Action weekAction week, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.

01In brief

The short answer.

Testing in Nexus Universe is how Future of Work and Skills brings work to the annual programme governed by The Global Risks Forum, with its own site at universe.nexus. Its proposed mission theme is workforce for a national mission. Selected work is tested under controlled conditions, reviewed and published with its limits; a theme is a proposal, not a confirmed exercise.

02Canvas

Scoping to review.

Canvas · scoping to reviewDesign, not a record
Test in Nexus Universe: an exercise from design to lessonsObjectives and a scenario are designed with the owner; injects are scripted; players respond in cells while controllers and observers watch; a hot wash and an after-action report turn observations into owned improvements. Design of the process, not a record of a run.

Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.

03Geography

People and exposure in Southeast Asia.

Population density, night-time lights, air quality, heat and floods, framed on Southeast Asia; each layer is a dated NASA product.

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People and exposure

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Population density, night-time lights, air quality, heat and floods, framed on Southeast Asia.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 · Natural EarthSources 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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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
  • 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
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026

04Themes

Mission themes from this field.

  1. 01

    Workforce for a national mission

    Proposed for controlled testing in the annual programme; a theme is not a confirmed exercise.

05Exercises

Compound-stress exercises designed for work and skills.

Exercise themeWhat it tests
Workforce for a national missionWhether a country can identify and mobilise the skills needed for a large resilience programme
06How testing works

Controlled, reviewed and reversible.

Selected work is tested under controlled conditions, reviewed and then published with its limits. Results that pass go to Nexus Reports. The planned stand-down of each edition keeps review, reconciliation and corrections going after the event.

07Key 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
Mission themeA subject a platform proposes for controlled testing in the annual Nexus Universe programme; a theme is a proposal until the programme confirms an exercise.
Simulation exerciseA practice, training or evaluation activity in which an emergency is described or simulated and participants respond as they would in reality, so that plans and capacities can be tested, as WHO's exercise manual describes.
Tabletop exerciseA discussion-based exercise in which participants talk through decisions in response to a scenario.
After-action reviewA structured discussion after an activity of what was planned, what happened, why, and what to change.
08Sources

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.

09Connected

Where this page leads across the Consortium.

10Questions

Questions and answers.

Where is Nexus Universe?
It has its own website at universe.nexus. GRF governs the programme.
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