Nexus Campaigns is the platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) for public-interest communication, participation and knowledge mobilization on risk. This page lists campaigns once each has been approved and has an attributable manager: a named person who answers for its claims, its participants and its closure. No campaign is shown until its record exists. How a campaign is designed and governed is set out in how campaigns work. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.
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Nexus Campaigns lists approved public-interest campaigns on risk, each with an attributable manager who answers for its claims, its participants and its closure. A campaign appears only once its record exists; how campaigns are designed and governed is set out on the method page.
Urban demand centres and the hubs that anchor digital and data infrastructure, shown for North America as an example geography for this subject.
A campaign entry is designed to carry enough information for a reader to know who is speaking, why, and how to question it.
A named campaign manager and the organization they act for, with a route for questions and corrections.
The public-interest aim, the audiences addressed and the evidence the messages rest on.
The campaign's period, its current state and the date its outcome record is due.
Campaigns appear here as each is approved for publication. Until then, the platform publishes its method and its learning and communication resources as they are cleared. Proposals follow organize a campaign.
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| In development | Submitted for review; not listed publicly |
| Approved | Scope, manager and safeguards accepted; listed here |
| Running | Public activity under way, with the manager reachable |
| Closed | Activity ended; outcome record published or due |
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Trusted messenger | A person or source whose information people believe and act on. |
A campaign listed here implies no affiliation, endorsement or sponsorship by any institution that is not named in its record, and it carries no authority to issue crisis warnings. In an emergency, follow your local authorities. The platform's integrity rules are set out on campaign integrity.
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.