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Test in Nexus Universe

Test in Nexus Universe

The mission themes Nexus Registry brings to the annual Nexus Universe programme, governed by The Global Risks Forum, with its own website at universe.nexus.

Publisher
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
Field
Governance and institutions, Research and evidence
01In brief

The short answer.

Testing in Nexus Universe is how Nexus Registry brings work to the annual programme governed by The Global Risks Forum, with its own site at universe.nexus. Its proposed mission theme is evidence records across an edition. Selected work is tested under controlled conditions, reviewed and published with its limits; a theme is a proposal, not a confirmed exercise.

02Canvas

Scoping to review.

Canvas · scoping to reviewDesign, not a record
Test in Nexus Universe: an exercise from design to lessonsObjectives and a scenario are designed with the owner; injects are scripted; players respond in cells while controllers and observers watch; a hot wash and an after-action report turn observations into owned improvements. Design of the process, not a record of a run.

Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.

03Geography

Jurisdictions in Central America.

The jurisdictions that hold authority over this question: countries, their first-level divisions and capitals, shown for Central America as an example geography for this subject.

The jurisdictions that hold authority over this question: countries, their first-level divisions and capitals.Boundaries as drawn by Natural Earth; no position on disputed areas.
GCRI · Nexus Registry · fieldDESIGN FIGURE
04Themes

Mission themes from this field.

  1. 01

    Evidence records across an edition

    Proposed for controlled testing in the annual programme; a theme is not a confirmed exercise.

05Exercises

Compound-stress exercises designed for registry.

Exercise themeWhat it tests
Evidence records across an editionWhether every figure in a report edition can be traced through the registry to its source and build
06How testing works

Controlled, reviewed and reversible.

Selected work is tested under controlled conditions, reviewed and then published with its limits. Results that pass go to Nexus Reports. The planned stand-down of each edition keeps review, reconciliation and corrections going after the event.

07Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

TermDefinition
Mission themeA subject a platform proposes for controlled testing in the annual Nexus Universe programme; a theme is a proposal until the programme confirms an exercise.
Simulation exerciseA practice, training or evaluation activity in which an emergency is described or simulated and participants respond as they would in reality, so that plans and capacities can be tested, as WHO's exercise manual describes.
Tabletop exerciseA discussion-based exercise in which participants talk through decisions in response to a scenario.
After-action reviewA structured discussion after an activity of what was planned, what happened, why, and what to change.
08Sources

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.

09Connected

Where this page leads across the Consortium.

10Questions

Questions and answers.

Where is Nexus Universe?
It has its own website at universe.nexus. GRF governs the programme.
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