GCRI · Campaigns
Campaigns
Public-interest communication, participation and campaign-specific knowledge mobilisation. Campaigns is an established platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation.
- STEM methods
- 2
- Canonical methods this field applies
- Topics
- 8
- Subject pages in the field
- Counterparts
- 2
- Platforms in shared fields across the network
- Report series
- 1
- Reports series it contributes to
The order things happen in.
- 01QuestionNational, regional or institutional priority
- 02EvidenceSTEM foundation of the platform
- 03BuildFoundry
- 04OrganiseNexus ecosystem
- 05TestUniverse (independent site)
- 06PublishReports
- 07DecideCompetent authorities and institutions, through NXS-RLS (participants, agreements and handoffs)
- 08RenewCorrections and the next annual agenda
Risk communication fails in predictable ways.
Decades of research on risk perception show that people do not weigh hazards the way models do. Familiar, voluntary and visible risks feel smaller than unfamiliar, imposed and invisible ones. Trust in the messenger shapes belief in the message, and trust is lost faster than it is earned. Numbers alone rarely move behaviour; people act when they understand what a risk means for them, what they can do and that the action is within reach.
Failures cascade. A water advisory that reaches only those who read one language leaves others exposed. A preparedness campaign that overstates certainty erodes trust for the next one. A well-meant message that names an institution without permission creates a false impression of authority, and a campaign that collects personal data it does not need creates a privacy risk of its own. In a crisis, unclear messages compete with rumour and with deliberate disinformation, and the people with the least time, money or connection are the most exposed to the gap.
Campaigns therefore need the same discipline as any other intervention: a stated purpose, evidence that holds, a defined audience, a way to measure effect and an honest record of what did not work.
Campaign wave tracker.
The screen a team would use to follow this field: its measures, states and decisions. Names are examples and values are illustrative.
Campaign wave tracker
Wave 2 · Campaign area North
- People reached481433Active
- Consent complete, % of participants97Normal
- Knowledge score change0.9pointsNormal
- Open feedback items7Watch
Preparedness actions by area
Messages under test
| Prepare a water reserve | A | 41 | Revise |
| Know your warning levels | B | 58 | Revise |
| Check on neighbours | A | 36 | Keep |
Safeguarding and consent
- S-1Minor enrolled without guardian recordPause and verify2 d
- S-2Withdrawal requestData deleted, logged1 d
The questions this field works on.
Risk literacy
Teaching complex risks with clear evidence.
TopicWater and food awareness
Campaigns rooted in life-support systems.
TopicCommunity preparedness
Preparedness information and community safeguards.
TopicResponsible AI literacy
Practical understanding of AI risks.
TopicCampaign governance
Sponsor neutrality and public claims.
TopicParticipation consent
Voluntary roles and privacy.
TopicCampaign evidence
Learning metrics and demonstrable outcomes.
TopicCampaign completion
Records, reflection and exit pathways.
A threshold model of collective behaviour.
Each agent acts once enough of its contacts have; small changes in the mean threshold or the early movers decide whether the behaviour stays local or cascades through the population. Teaching model with stated illustrative values, not a prediction. The map on this page shows South Asia; the model itself is not tied to a place.
Controls
- Mean threshold (share of neighbours)
- 18%
- Spread of thresholds
- 8 points
- Early movers
- 2.0% of people
- Contacts per person
- 8
Readouts
- Share who acted in the end
- 100%
- Global cascade
- Yes
- Steps to settle
- 11
Numbers, methods and sources
| Step | Share who have acted (%) |
|---|---|
| 0 | 0.8 |
| 1 | 3.3 |
| 2 | 9.5 |
| 3 | 19.8 |
| 4 | 35.8 |
| 5 | 55.5 |
| 6 | 75.0 |
| 7 | 88.8 |
| 8 | 96.3 |
| 9 | 99.0 |
| 10 | 100.0 |
| 11 | 100.0 |
Methods
- Threshold models of collective behaviour Granovetter (1978), American Journal of Sociology 83
- Global cascades on random networks Watts (2002), PNAS 99
- Complex contagions Centola and Macy (2007), American Journal of Sociology 113
- One-at-a-time sensitivity (tornado) Saltelli and others (2008), Global Sensitivity Analysis: The Primer, Wiley
Data
No observed data enters this model: it runs on the teaching values set by the controls, to be replaced with a programme’s own evidence.
Across the six pillars, led by Nexus Consortium
- Experiments Labs
- Built in Campaigns in Foundry
- Tested at Campaigns in Universe
- Codified in Governance, Security and Society in Standards
- Published in Campaigns in Reports
- Taught in Faculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs in Academy
How work moves in this field.
A question becomes evidence, a governed build, an organised community, a controlled test, a reviewed publication and, finally, a decision taken by the competent authority under its own rules.
- Question Universe National, regional or institutional priority. Question in Campaigns
- Evidence Foundry STEM foundation of the platform. Evidence in Campaigns
- Build Foundry Foundry. Build in Campaigns
- Organise Universe Nexus ecosystem. Organise in Campaigns
- Test Universe Universe (independent site). Test in Campaigns
- Publish Reports Reports. Publish in Campaigns
- Decide Competent authority Competent authorities and institutions, through NXS-RLS. Decide in Campaigns
- Renew Universe Corrections and the next annual agenda. Renew in Campaigns
Each step of the cycle in the pillar it runs in; the decision stays with the competent authority, outside the programme.
- Labs
- Foundry
- Universe
- Nexus Standards
- Reports
- Risk Academy
- Competent authority (outside the programme)
Model campaigns as a system. Run the cascade.
Assembled from the Nexus Standards area profile Information integrity and trust: the hazards it names, the systems and sectors that carry the loss, the controls that dampen it and the data that observe it. Choose the components, pick an initiating hazard and step through the cascade. The Map view places the run on an example geography with open data. Every coupling weight is a stated assumption you can change. A teaching model, not a forecast, an assessment or a certification. To model a place of your own choosing, open the full System Builder.
Hazards
- Civil unrest
- Ice-jam flood
- Tropical cyclone
- Heatwave
- HIV epidemic
- Dam failure
- Storm surge (set off downstream)
- Intense rainfall (set off downstream)
- River flood (set off downstream)
- Flash flood (set off downstream)
- Dangerous surf (set off downstream)
- Widespread power outage (set off downstream)
- Mass displacement (set off downstream)
- Coastal flood (set off downstream)
- Extreme fire weather (set off downstream)
- Wildfire (set off downstream)
- Heat-driven grid stress (set off downstream)
- Agricultural drought (set off downstream)
Systems and couplings
Controls
NS-0Constitution and principlesNS-2Citation and attribution format for UNIsNS-9Contextual UNIs (deployments, instances, programme instances)NS-11Verification and monitoring (evidence, attestations, zero-trust conformance observation)NS-12Software, model and AI/ML artefacts (supply chain, model cards, dataset sheets)NRS-H52Hazard family: Information-integrity attacks (NHS-1 cyber.integrity)NRS-X7Information integrity and public trustNRS-U23Universe platform profile: ReportsNRS-A4Zero-trust verification of standards and conformanceNRS-H65Hazard family: Planetary boundary transgressions (NHS-1 planet.boundary)NRS-H72Hazard family: Novel entities and emerging contaminants (NHS-1 poll.novel-entities)
Observation
- GDELT event database and global knowledge graph (listed for reference)
- Our World in Data datasets (listed for reference)
- Number of countries that adopt and implement guarantees for public access to information
Example geography
- The Horn of Africa: 253 hexagonal cells
- Night lights tonight, outages (VIIRS Day/Night Band), NASA GIBS
- Surface water through cloud, 30 m (OPERA DSWx-S1 radar), NASA GIBS
- Rain rate, last half hour (IMERG), NASA GIBS
- Surface air temperature, daytime (AIRS), NASA GIBS
What Campaigns does.
Risk communication is the real-time exchange of information, advice and opinions between experts or public servants and people facing a threat, so they can take informed decisions, in WHO usage. Campaigns studies how public understanding, participation and trust form and spread, and how public-interest campaigns keep claims honest, participation voluntary and outcomes on record.
Its community
Educators; civic groups; researchers; community partners; programme teams.
Its methods
Audience research; consented participation; public communication evaluation.
Its outputs
Campaign explainers; responsible participation guides; campaign outcome records.
How campaigns is modelled, measured and tested.
The model, its assumptions, its data and its uncertainty, in the form a scientist or engineer would check. Structures follow published methods. The values drawn are illustrative, not findings.
System model
The couplings between the systems in campaigns: signs of influence, a reinforcing and a balancing loop, and cross-links where stress jumps.
Model, equations and assumptions
The model structure used for campaigns, the assumptions it makes and how each is tested.
Ri = f(Hi, Ei, Vi, Ci)hazard, exposure, vulnerability and coping capacityEAL = ∑k pk · Lkover events k with annual probability pkxt+1 = A xt + B ut + εtA carries the couplings, u the shock, ε the error| Assumption | Why it is made | How it is tested |
|---|---|---|
| Hazard and exposure are independent within an event | Keeps the loss integral tractable | Compare with a copula fit on joint records |
| Couplings are linear near the operating point | Lets shocks propagate through A | Perturb beyond the linear range and compare |
| Vulnerability curves transfer between places | Local curves are rarely available | Validate against observed losses where they exist |
- Inputs
- versioned datasets with provenance
- Outputs
- distributions, never single numbers
- Code
- released with the model card and tests
- Reproduction
- same data, code, environment and seed
What Campaigns does, and the limits on persuasion it sets itself.
Campaigns studies how people come to understand risk and take part in reducing it, and runs public-interest campaigns that keep their claims sourced and their participation voluntary. It sells nothing, supports no candidate or party, profiles no individual and never buys influence; participation data is used only for the purpose people agreed to.
Campaign materials shown here are examples unless marked as released. Reach is not impact, and a campaign that changed nothing is reported as such.
People and exposure in South Asia.
Population density, night lights and daytime surface heat over South Asia, from NASA GIBS. Each layer carries its own date.
The interactive map needs JavaScript; the layer list and sources are below.
Layers 3
People and exposure, for this page
About this layer
- Evidence
- Estimated
- Source
- Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (NASA SEDAC (CIESIN, Columbia University))
- Provider
- NASA SEDAC (CIESIN, Columbia University)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Vintage
- null; Census-based estimate, static (2020)
- Resolution
- about 1 km grid
- Uncertainty
- Census-based estimate of people per square kilometre in 2020, shown as exposure context; not a count of people affected by any hazard.
- Reached through
- gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
- Evidence
- Observed
- Source
- VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2) (NASA LAADS DAAC)
- Provider
- NASA LAADS DAAC
- Licence
- NASA open data
- Vintage
- daily; Satellite radiance, corrected for moonlight and atmosphere
- Newest at build
- 2026-10-12
- Resolution
- about 500 m grid
- Uncertainty
- Satellite night-time radiance for the date shown; lights are a proxy for electricity use and outages, not a measurement of supply or access.
- Reached through
- gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
- Evidence
- Observed (persistent cloud still leaves gaps)
- Source
- VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day (NASA LANCE)
- Provider
- NASA LANCE
- Licence
- NASA open data
- Vintage
- 8-day; Satellite 8-day composite; persistent cloud still leaves gaps
- Newest at build
- 2026-09-14
- Resolution
- about 1 km grid
- Uncertainty
- Satellite skin temperature of the ground over the 8 days ending on the date shown, a heat exposure indicator; not air temperature, heat index or a heat warning.
- Reached through
- gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
- Evidence
- Observed
- Source
- VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance (NASA LANCE)
- Provider
- NASA LANCE
- Licence
- NASA open data
- Vintage
- daily; Satellite image
- Newest at build
- 2026-10-14
- Resolution
- about 250 m grid
- Uncertainty
- Satellite image. Satellite or model raster as the provider publishes it. Clouds, swath gaps and retrieval error leave gaps and noise; values are indicators, not measurements at a place.
- Reached through
- gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
- Evidence
- Modelled (latest year GIBS publishes)
- Source
- MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1) (NASA LP DAAC)
- Provider
- NASA LP DAAC
- Licence
- NASA open data
- Vintage
- yearly; Satellite classification; latest year GIBS publishes
- Newest at build
- 2024-01-01
- Resolution
- about 500 m grid
- Uncertainty
- Satellite land cover classes for the year shown, including croplands; a classification with known errors, not a farm register.
- Reached through
- gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
About this layer
- Evidence
- Observed (clouds leave gaps)
- Source
- OMI Aura (NASA GES DISC)
- Provider
- NASA GES DISC
- Licence
- NASA open data
- Vintage
- daily; Satellite retrieval; clouds leave gaps
- Newest at build
- 2026-10-10
- Resolution
- about 2 km grid
- Uncertainty
- Satellite column of nitrogen dioxide in the lower atmosphere on the day shown, mostly from combustion; not a ground-level concentration or a health warning.
- Reached through
- gibs.earthdata.nasa.gov, only after you allow the live map
Keyboard, with the map focused
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Latest available
NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth
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People and exposure, framed on South Asia.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date. They are indicators, not assessments of any place.
Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · NASA EONET · NASA JPL OPERA DIST-ALERTSources 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 hexagonal 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 hexagonal 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). doi:10.7927/H49C6VHW. 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 hexagonal 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal 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 hexagonal 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 hexagonal cells where shown (modified). Cite as: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team (2019). ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003. doi:10.5067/ASTER/ASTGTM.003. NASA open data
- Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). ODbL
- Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into hexagonal cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
- Live events: NASA Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET); events are indicative and keep their original source links.
- Live: NASA EONET Events are indicative, not authority warnings.
- Observed (EO): NASA JPL OPERA DIST-ALERT (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026). 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).
- NASA GIBS: 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).
- Air quality forecast, 5 days, PM2.5 (CAMS via Open-Meteo): Contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information 2026.
- Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (https://open-meteo.com/), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Optional layers (9 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.
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
- Land surface temperature, day, 8-day composite: VIIRS NOAA-20 Level 3, 8-day, NASA LANCE · 14 Sep 2026
- True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
- Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
- Nitrogen dioxide, lower atmosphere column: OMI Aura, NASA GES DISC · 10 Oct 2026
Each domain needs people who understand its risks.
- WaterHow this field couples to itDrought and flood preparedness depends on households knowing what a warning means and what to do.
- EnergyHow this field couples to itHeat and outage readiness depends on people knowing how to protect the medically vulnerable without power.
- FoodHow this field couples to itFood safety and nutrition messages compete with marketing and need trusted messengers.
- HealthHow this field couples to itRisk communication in health emergencies follows WHO guidance on trust, engagement and rumour management.
- BiodiversityHow this field couples to itNature campaigns work best when communities hold the knowledge and the benefits.
Where campaign evidence goes, and how to take part.
Campaign evaluations, including null results, are designed for the Evidence Brief series; methods for measuring understanding and participation for the Methods and Technical series. Campaign records follow the provenance and consent rules of the proposed Nexus Standards.
- Communities can propose a campaign need and co-design its messages.
- Researchers can contribute evaluation designs and survey instruments.
- Anyone can report a misleading campaign claim for correction.
Evidence-based campaigns for named publics.
Campaigns serves educators, civic groups, researchers, community partners and programme teams who want to explain a risk, invite participation or mobilise knowledge for public benefit.
Campaign explainers
Plain-language material on a risk, with each claim sourced and its uncertainty stated.
Responsible participation guides
Voluntary, accessible and consented routes for people to contribute, with a way to withdraw.
Campaign outcome records
Measured results against aims agreed before launch, including results that fall short.
Campaigns explain and prepare. They never issue warnings: warnings come only from the authorities mandated to give them, and campaign material points people to those authorities.
Grounded in science, connected to governance and finance.
The platform rests on two canonical methods in the STEM Commons: social and behavioural science, which supplies audience research, survey design and evaluation, and decision analysis under uncertainty, which helps a campaign say what a person can reasonably do when the evidence is incomplete. Their application here is described on social and behavioural science in Campaigns and decision analysis under uncertainty in Campaigns.
The same field is governed at The Global Risks Forum (GRF) through Information Integrity, which convenes institutions on misinformation, crisis information and public trust. The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) connects through Institutional Funds Nexus, where long-horizon investors examine how public understanding of risk shapes stewardship. The method behind every campaign is set out in how campaigns work, and lessons can feed the Evidence Brief series of Reports.
The areas of information and public trust this platform takes on.
Campaigns studies how public understanding, participation and trust in information form, degrade and spread, and how public-interest campaigns can keep their claims honest, their participation voluntary and their outcomes on record. Its pages cover risk literacy, life-support awareness, preparedness, AI literacy, governance, consent, evidence and completion, setting out the science, data, methods and decisions for each, with every measure labelled by its evidence.
Risk literacy
How people read probabilities, forecasts and evidence about uncertain harm, and which presentation formats reduce misreading.
Information integrity
Trust in sources, the spread of false and misleading content, and how corrections and information voids shape understanding.
Life-support awareness
Public understanding of water and food systems, the advisories issued about them, and rumour during shortages.
Preparedness and warning
How preparedness information and warnings travel, where the chain breaks, and safeguards for people who are hard to reach.
AI literacy
Practical understanding of AI systems, synthetic media, provenance and rights over automated decisions.
Participation and consent
Voluntary roles, informed and revocable consent, privacy and safeguarding in public engagement.
Campaign governance
Sponsor disclosure, editorial independence, evidence behind public claims and correction when claims are wrong.
Evidence and completion
Measuring reach, understanding and outcomes honestly, and closing campaigns with records, reflection and exit pathways.
Built on named science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Every claim on Campaigns rests on methods with a canonical page in the STEM Commons, so readers can see what a finding depends on and where its limits lie.
How this works across the six pillars.
Campaigns works through six pillars of one annual programme, led by the Nexus Consortium, with GCRI, GRF and GRA each contributing in its role: explore, experiment and prototype in Labs, build, simulate and prepare in Foundry, convene and test in Universe, codify, correct and apply in Nexus Standards, publish in every format in Reports, teach in the open in Risk Academy.
handoff in playrecorded handoffno direct handoff
Programme yearAll phases
Route
The whole programme
Every pillar hands its work to another; together they close the year’s feedback loops.
L · F · U · S · R · A
- Pillars
- 6 of 6
- Handoffs
- 18 of 18
- Loops
- 17 closed
Handoffs in play
- F01Universe → Foundry · Admitted mission becomes a cycle project with a decision caseReadiness preparation
- F02Foundry → Universe · Core Build Report and go or no-go evidenceControlled build
- F03Foundry → Reports · Sealed observations and indicator series behind a profileCloseout
- F04Universe → Reports · After-action and scenario findings for chapters 10 and 13After-action review
and 14 more
- LabsWhere questions become experiments and prototypes: new methods, data and tools are tried in the open, with their limits on record, before the Foundry builds them, under the Nexus Consortium.Labs
- FoundryWhere methods, data and models become reproducible builds, each run with its inputs, version and limits on record.Campaigns in FoundryFoundry
- UniverseWhere a build is tested under controlled conditions with independent evaluators, so a method’s skill is measured, not assumed.Campaigns in Universeuniverse.nexus
- Nexus StandardsWhere methods, identifiers and data schemas are codified in the open and corrected when a test finds a fault.Governance, Security and Society in Standardsnexustandards.com
- ReportsWhere findings are published with their method, uncertainty and evidence class, and corrected as new versions.Campaigns in ReportsReports
- Risk AcademyWhere methods and systems are taught on real data and real places, by working the case, on Risk Academy.Faculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs in Academyrisksacademy.com
What the work is read against.
The platform does not set standards. It reads its evidence against the frameworks that competent bodies have adopted, so a finding can be placed where a decision-maker already works.
| Framework or standard | Body | What it sets |
|---|---|---|
| Communicating risk in public health emergencies | World Health Organization | Recommendations on trust, community engagement, listening, message development and managing rumours in emergencies |
| Media and information literacy curriculum and competency framework | UNESCO | Competencies for accessing, evaluating, creating and sharing information responsibly |
| Spectrum of Public Participation | International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) | Levels of participation from informing the public to shared decision-making, each with a stated promise to the public |
| Recommendation of the Council on Open Government | OECD | Principles for transparency, integrity, accountability and stakeholder participation in public decisions |
| Global Principles for Information Integrity | United Nations | Principles on societal trust, healthy incentives, public empowerment, independent media, transparency and research access |
| Aarhus Convention | UNECE | Rights of access to environmental information, public participation in decisions and access to justice |
| General Data Protection Regulation | European Union | Lawful bases, conditions for consent, rights of withdrawal, access and erasure, and protection of children’s data |
| Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) | World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | Testable criteria for perceivable, operable, understandable and robust web content |
| Evaluation criteria | OECD Development Assistance Committee | Relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability as the basis for evaluation |
| Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence | UNESCO | Values and policy actions for AI, including public awareness and AI literacy |
The same field, seen three ways.
GCRI studies a field as science, GRF governs it and GRA builds shared financial understanding of it. Campaigns links to its counterparts so that work on one side is visible on the others.
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.
- Communicating risk in public health emergencies, guideline (WHO, 2017)
- United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity (United Nations, 2024)
- OECD Recommendation of the Council on Open Government (OECD, 2017)
- Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters (UNECE, 1998)
- Nexus Standards, the proposed NS series (nexustandards.com)
Pages in Campaigns.
Campaigns
PageCommunity participation
PageLearning and communication resources
PageOrganise a campaign
PageCampaign results
PageCampaign integrity
PagePurpose and publisher
PageSupporting methods
PageContributors and community
PagePublic outputs
PageContact and support
PageSTEM foundation of Campaigns
PageHow work moves in this field
PageBuild in Foundry
PageTest in Universe
PagePublish in Reports
PageThe same field across the Consortium
PageTopics
Where this page leads across the Consortium.
Questions and answers.
Who publishes Campaigns?
Is Campaigns active?
How can I contribute?
Where are findings published?
Which values on this platform are real?
How do I report an error?
Who publishes Campaigns?
Can a campaign warn people about a hazard?
Contribute evidence from this page.
Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
- EmailGateway GW-GCRISend it from this pageEvidence, a correction, a case, a method, a review, a translation or profile input. It arrives tagged with this page, so the editor who owns it receives it.
- ZenodoOpen depositDeposit it and submit to the communityPublish your own record on Zenodo with your ORCID iD, then submit it to the Reports community there. Curators review it; the DOI stays yours.
- ReportsGCRISee every way to contributeThe contribution types, how each is reviewed, what credit you receive, the licence and what is never accepted.
Never send personal data, sensitive infrastructure detail or anything you have no right to share. A contribution is reviewed before use; sending it confers no authorship or editorial rights, and sponsorship never buys a finding.
How Campaigns works.
Choose a view and press Play to follow the platform’s process, its programme year, the standards it applies and how its findings are published. The outline shows how the work is designed to run, not the status of any decision.
Campaigns
How Campaigns works
Platforms · Programme year · Standards · Reports
A platform joins a field to named methods, labelled evidence and the outputs it publishes, without becoming the authority it serves.
01 Scope
- 01Field and familiesStart · The platform leadThe home states the field, its families and who it serves.
- 02Topic dossiersRecord · Platform authorsTopics explain the subject with labelled evidence.
02 Evidence
- 03Evidence labelsRecord · GCRIEach value is labelled: observed, published statistics, estimated, modelled, scenario or unknown.
- 04MethodsStep · Method ownersMethods come from the STEM Commons, each with one canonical page.
03 Work
- 05Scenarios on the systemsModel · Foundry pillarScenarios run on the Nexus systems, labelled as scenario.
- 06Standards that applyRecord · Nexus StandardsThe platform names the standards that apply. A validator report is evidence for review.
04 Publish
- 07EditionsRecord · ReportsFindings are published through Reports with their limits.
- 08Authority decidesOutcome · The competent authorityDecisions and execution stay with the government, operator or licensed institution.
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| Open call | Seeks | Closes |
|---|---|---|
| Founding call for experts to the working groups CALL-FOUNDING-EXPERTS | expert, editor, chair | 2026-12-15 |
| Open nomination for the three independent expert seats of the Global Standards Council CALL-GSC-IND | council-member | 2026-12-01 |
| Nominations of interim regional members (applies only if the transitional provision is decided) CALL-GSC-REG | council-member | 2026-12-15 |
| Review of the wave-1 risk core outlines (C1, C2, C3, C4, C8, C10, C11) CALL-REVIEW-WAVE1 | contributor | 2027-01-31 |
| Experts for the core standards of risk science: uncertainty and evidence grading, scales, structured expert judgement, tolerability, extremes and compound events, catastrophic and existential risk, ethics and equity, units and measurement (NRS-C17 to NRS-C24) CALL-CORE-SCIENCE | expert, editor, chair | 2027-01-31 |
| Independent reviewers for the families of the hazard atlas, three from at least two regions for each family (NHS2-R19), priority families first CALL-ATLAS-REVIEW | expert | 2027-03-31 |
| Members of the interim Frontier Safety Review Panel and red-team reviewers (biosafety and biosecurity, AI safety and security, critical-infrastructure security); applications treated in confidence CALL-FRONTIER-SAFETY-REVIEW | expert | 2026-11-30 |
| Experts in ontology, metrology, software verification and conformity assessment for the requirement register, the NHS-2 machine representation, the conformance test suites and the conformity assessment scheme CALL-CONFORMANCE-ONTOLOGY | expert, editor | 2027-01-31 |
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The Index is the Consortium’s indexing system for risk data. Every indicator, hazard, series and country profile carries its Nexus Standards identifier, its source and its licence, so what this page shows can be traced, corrected and reused.
- 01 · Sources205 registered sourcesEvery value keeps its source and licence; withheld values are counted.Data and licences
- 02 · Nexus StandardsNIS-1 and NHS-1451 indicators, 905 hazards; every record carries a UNI.Nexus Standards
- 03 · The Index54 series, 195 country profilesComputed on the standards; no value is published until an edition is released.The Global Risks Index
- 04 · This pageCampaignsMaps, figures and feeds read the Index in the context of society, demography, health and South Asia.Public API
Series in this context society, demography, health
- GSGlobal DevelopmentPoverty, inequality, human development, demographic pressure and displacement as the ground on which shocks become losses.NXS-GRX-AR-000064Society · Demography · Health
- GLBGlobal SystemsThe state of interdependent global risk: the twenty domain indices aggregated to the world, the five core systems (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity) and their couplings, the global tail register and the gap…NXS-GRX-AR-000002Society · Health · Demography
- GSGlobal HealthHealth security capacity, epidemic emergence and spread, heat and air-quality burden, health system stress and access.NXS-GRX-AR-000062Health · Society · Demography
- SRConflict, fragility and human securityConflict risk and escalation, fragility, organised violence, civilian harm and the conflict–climate–food–displacement nexus.NXS-GRX-AR-000075Governance · Demography · Society
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Hazard domains NHS-1
- Health and biosecurityNXS-GRX-AR-000143
- Society, conflict and economyNXS-GRX-AR-000147
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