The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Topics at Nexus Foundry: the pages in this section are listed below, each with its own scope and status.
GCRI · Established · service level R0
The Nexus Foundry topics are the eight subject dossiers of its field, among them project workstations, twenty technical systems, and maps and GIS. Each dossier sets out how the risk develops, what is measured and in which units, the public sources and their licences, the methods, who decides and the limits of the evidence.
GCRI is a research, development and policy institution. It is not a regulator, and it does not certify, license or approve; its findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
The topics describe the Foundry from the user's side (workstations, maps, evidence, modelling, agents, compute) and the system side (the twenty systems, usage and billing).
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Least privilege | Granting each user or process only the access needed for its current task. |
| Interface contract | A versioned specification of the requests and responses a system accepts, such as an OpenAPI or Protocol Buffers definition. |
| Coordinate reference system | The definition that ties coordinates to locations on Earth, catalogued with EPSG codes. |
| Source passport | A record of a data source's owner, licence, method, coverage and known limits, kept with every use of the source. |
| Ensemble | A set of model runs with varied inputs, parameters or structures, whose spread expresses uncertainty. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Project onboarding, persistent context and permissions.
TopicCanonical Foundry system inventory.
TopicApproved geospatial public views.
TopicData, ontology, Chronotopes and lineage.
TopicWorkloads, reproducibility and limits.
TopicAI tools, authority and risk controls.
TopicCloud, local nodes and edge technical capacity.
TopicService units, credits, quotas and tenant charges.
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.