Nexus Campaigns is published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), the research, development and policy institution of Nexus Consortiums. GCRI works across Canada and the United States. This page sets out why the platform exists, who answers for it and the limits it keeps. See the Nexus Campaigns home page for its topics and status.
GCRI · Established · service level R0
Nexus Campaigns is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation for information and public trust as well as society and human development. Its mandate covers public-interest communication, participation and campaign-specific knowledge mobilization. GCRI publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is established and works at service level R0, information and enquiries.
Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.
Urban demand centres and the hubs that anchor digital and data infrastructure, shown for the contiguous United States as an example geography for this subject.
The platform exists for public-interest communication, participation and campaign-specific knowledge mobilization. It treats a campaign as a piece of applied social research with a purpose, a defined public, consented participation and measures agreed in advance.
Educators, civic groups, researchers, community partners and programme teams.
Audience research, consented participation and public communication evaluation.
Campaign explainers, responsible participation guides and campaign outcome records.
GCRI is responsible for the content of Nexus Campaigns, for the review of each campaign before it is listed and for corrections. Editorial coverage of the platform's topics requires named subject review, references and relevant independent specialist voices. Campaign managers are named on each approved campaign record, so readers can see who is accountable for it.
Nexus Campaigns is an established platform. Its existing community and published root are preserved, and its activity is substantiated by audit before it is described here. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; proposals, registrations and participation open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
Sector decisions remain with the competent authorities and institutions under their own rules. See campaign integrity.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Service level R0 | The 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 interest | A situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review. |
| Risk communication | The real-time exchange of information, advice and opinions between experts or officials and people facing a threat to their health, economic or social well-being. |
| Risk literacy | The ability to find, understand and weigh information about uncertain harms, such as probabilities, relative risks and hazard maps. |
Nexus Campaigns is one of the platforms listed on GCRI platforms. Its methods rest on its STEM foundation, and its approach to campaigns is set out in how campaigns work. Questions of information governance are convened by The Global Risks Forum (GRF) on Information Integrity. Contributors and their roles are described on contributors and community.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. 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.