GCRI · Foundry
Purpose and publisher
Foundry is the technical work environment of the Nexus Consortiums. This page sets out who publishes its public gateway, who operates the service, which roles other parties hold and the limits that apply to all of them. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) publishes the gateway and answers for its content. Information and enquiries are open today, and nothing on this page describes a live allocation or a signed agreement.
- STEM methods
- 6
- Canonical methods this field applies
- Topics
- 8
- Subject pages in the field
- Counterparts
- 1
- Platforms in shared fields across the network
- Report series
- 1
- Reports series it contributes to
Purpose and publisher in four parts.
Why Foundry exists.
The purpose is a public gateway to the technical work environment, while project permissions and privileged services stay inside Foundry. Projects, data, models, maps and evidence are kept there with lineage and permissions, so that risk work can be reproduced, corrected and handed over between institutions.
Who it serves
Engineers, model builders, researchers, technology operators and project owners working on authorised projects.
How it works
System specifications, APIs, geospatial model workflows and authorisation, applied through 20 technical systems.
What the gateway publishes
A capability catalogue, installation guidance and public technical examples, each as it is released.
Who holds which role.
| Party | Role |
|---|---|
| The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) | Publishes this gateway and is responsible for its content |
| GCRI Canada | Lead organisation, Consortium Secretariat and global contracting party; runs the global-to-local deployment of Foundry in service of the consortiums, under a not-for-profit mandate |
| Nexus Consortiums | Operate Foundry at national and regional level through their host and lead organisations |
| GCRI, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) | The three pillar not-for-profit institutions that lead the multilateral programme |
The programme is built on a public-private-planet partnership. Use of the service itself is governed by the service’s own terms, published with the service, not by this page.
What Foundry does not do.
- It does not take decisions that belong to institutions, public servants or competent authorities, issue authority warnings, dispatch resources or release funds.
- It does not regulate, certify, license or approve any person, model, product or institution; experiment results are not certification.
- It does not treat a membership, a payment or an offer of infrastructure as a compute allocation or as access to restricted data.
- It does not publish project data, participants or privileged information on public pages.
- It does not charge for anything that was not disclosed in writing beforehand; see usage and billing.
Established gateway, open for information and enquiries.
Foundry is an established GCRI platform, preserved at its existing address while its existing activity is confirmed against records. The twenty technical systems are described as designed; a description is not a statement that a system is operating for any tenant. Enquiries go to the Consortium Secretariat at the contact form, and the acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
Questions and answers.
Is Foundry a separate company?
Who decides what a project may do?
Is the service run for profit?
Where are the service terms?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. 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.
Legal documents.
Maps, data and figures on this site are shown for context and general information. They are not advice, forecasts or warnings; the limits of the information are set out in the Disclaimers and Data Notices.