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Standards development cells

Teams that draft, test and correct open standards in the open, with the technical committees. A validator report is evidence for review, never a conformance claim, and each jurisdiction decides what it adopts.

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Cells · Nexus Standards

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Type

Each type comes with roles, a decision rule and a first project you can change later.

Cell type

Pick the type closest to your work. Everything can be changed later.

Teams on the ground

Research and learning

Data, systems and tools

Policy, standards and review

Mission and area

What the cell will do, where, and the first problem it takes on.

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Scale
The problem it works on

Roles and founders

You lead unless you choose someone else. Open roles show on the cell's page for others to take.

Email addresses or member names, one per line. Members get an invitation; others get an email to join.

Who holds each role (you lead unless you choose)
  • Convenor
  • Editor
  • Secretary
  • Panel chair
  • Integrity contact
  • Reviewer
  • Maintainer
  • Security contact
  • Lead
  • Data steward
  • Quality reviewer
  • Operations coordinator
  • Monitoring and learning lead
  • Safeguarding contact
  • Ethics contact
  • Host adviser
  • Rapporteur
  • Sector liaison
  • Facilitator
  • Deputy lead
  • Logistics coordinator
  • Independent methods reviewer

Host organisation

The organisation the cell works under. A network body can host it if you have none.

Charter

A starting charter from the type. The founders ratify it by a vote once the cell forms, and can amend it by proposal.

Safeguards on decisions
Who can join
Meets

Safeguarding

Who takes part

With members under 18, a safeguarding contact is named in Roles, and their names are never shown in public.

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What you bring and what you would like to do. An open cell lets you in at once; any other reads your note first.

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What a cell is

A small team with a mission, a host and a record

  • Mission-bound

    A cell forms under a host organisation for a defined mission, place and time, with the outcomes it aims for.

  • Roles you can show

    Every role in a cell becomes a credential the member holds, and the competence it needs is shown by evidence.

  • Decided and recorded

    The cell chooses its own decision rules and agreements. Every action is a recorded event anyone can verify.

  • Local to global

    A cell works at one scale, local, national, regional or global, and links with other cells into networks of cells.

Cell types

Start from a type that fits your work

Every type is interdisciplinary: it names the expertise and disciplines it draws on, so people from any field can find it and ask to join.

  • Standards cell

    Standard drafting cell

    Drafts a standard or profile with a technical committee and answers every public comment.

    • Risk governance and institutions
    • Digital public infrastructure and digital identity
    • AI assurance and audit

    3 or more membersDecides by consensus with fallback

  • Review and assurance cell

    Public comment review cell

    Reviews the comments on a draft and records how each one was resolved.

    • Risk governance and institutions
    • AI assurance and audit

    6 or more membersDecides by supermajority

  • Engineering and digital cell

    Reference implementation cell

    Builds open reference code and validators so a draft can be tried before anyone adopts it.

    • Digital public infrastructure and digital identity
    • Cybersecurity and digital resilience
    • Reliability, safety and resilience engineering

    3 or more membersDecides by advice process

  • Data and observation cell

    Test data and examples cell

    Curates the open datasets and worked examples a standard is tested against.

    • Earth observation and Earth system data
    • Data infrastructure, compute and semiconductors
    • Atmosphere and air chemistry

    3 or more membersDecides by consent (sociocratic objection rounds)

  • Field and operations cell

    Adoption pilot cell

    Tries a draft standard in one place or organisation and reports what had to change.

    • Early warning and anticipatory action
    • Disaster risk reduction
    • Humanitarian action and displacement

    4 or more membersDecides by advice process

  • Research cell

    Methods research cell

    Researches the methods a standard relies on and publishes the evidence behind them.

    • Risk governance and institutions
    • Multi-hazard and compound risk assessment
    • Foresight and futures

    3 or more membersDecides by consent (sociocratic objection rounds)

  • Youth, campus or chapter cell

    National mirror cell

    Follows the standards work for one country and prepares its comments and adoption options.

    • Capacity development and technical assistance
    • Community resilience and inclusion
    • Work, skills and occupational safety

    5 or more membersDecides by simple majority

  • Policy and advisory cell

    Regulatory alignment cell

    Maps a standard against the rules of one jurisdiction, as advice for those who decide.

    • Risk-informed public policy
    • Risk governance and institutions
    • Foresight and futures

    3 or more membersDecides by consensus with fallback

  • Sector cell

    Sector profile cell

    Adapts a standard to the practice of one sector.

    • Health
    • Food
    • Water

    3 or more membersDecides by consent (sociocratic objection rounds)

  • Learning cell

    Standards practice cohort

    Practitioners who learn together to read, apply and comment on the standards.

    • Capacity development and technical assistance
    • Work, skills and occupational safety
    • Human development, poverty and inequality

    3 or more membersDecides by simple majority

  • Community emergency response team (CERT)

    Community emergency response team (CERT)

    Local preparedness and first response, using the open response profiles.

    • Preparedness, emergency and crisis management
    • Community resilience and inclusion
    • Early warning and anticipatory action

    5 or more membersDecides by advice process

  • Finance and risk transfer cell

    Risk finance data standards cell

    Works on the data and trigger definitions risk finance relies on. Nothing is priced or arranged.

    • Disaster risk finance
    • Actuarial science
    • Insurance, reinsurance and protection gaps

    3 or more membersDecides by supermajority

Find a cell

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Active cells on this network. Filter them, or draw an area on the map, then open one to see its mission and ask to join.

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Cells appear here once their core areas are done. Form the first one: it takes about two minutes and starts as a draft that only its members see.

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How cells work here

Open, peer to peer and protected

  • A public good

    Forming and running a cell is free, outputs are open access by default, and nothing here is priced.

  • Peer to peer

    Members work directly with each other and with other cells, under the rules they adopt together.

  • Trust from records

    Nobody is trusted by default: roles are credentials, decisions and agreements are signed records, and each can be checked.

  • Protected

    Members under 18 are never listed in public and always have an adult safeguarding contact. Small numbers are never shown in public.

Across the networks

Cells under every organisation

Each network forms cells in its own field. A cell can work with cells of the other networks.

  • GCRI

    Nexus Competence Cells

    Institutionally hosted, mission-bounded expert units. They localise and operate risk capabilities, keep a record of everything they do, and incubate new work with partner institutions.

  • GRF

    Field and practice cells

    Working groups, practice communities and forum teams. They turn expert dialogue into shared readiness outputs across the councils, the sector and national forums and the annual programme.

  • GRA

    Alliance, sector and operations cells

    Teams of member institutions and experts who build shared understanding of systemic risk in financial services. They prepare evidence for finance readiness and never lend, underwrite, rate, invest, advise on or arrange transactions.

  • Risk Academy

    Learning-by-doing cells

    Cohorts, study groups and labs that learn by doing real risk work together. A completion record is a learning record: not a licence to practise and not an academic credential.

  • The Global Risks Index

    Index evidence cells

    Teams that bring evidence, corrections and local knowledge to the country risk indexes. An index value is not a rating, a risk signal is not verified risk, and every contribution is reviewed in public.

  • Observatory Protocol

    Observation and protocol cells

    Teams that design, build and run observation on the open Observatory Protocol, from local sensors to shared data. Conformity support is evidence for review, never a certification.

  • KCO

    Kurdish community cells

    Teams of members who organise where Kurdish communities live: city chapters, language circles, heritage, civic voice and mutual support. Cells are for adults; younger members can follow them but not join.

  • IDCDC

    Iranian diaspora cells

    Teams of members who organise where Iranian diaspora communities live: city chapters, language circles, heritage, civic voice and mutual support. Cells are for adults; younger members can follow them but not join.

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