Institutions, conflict, information integrity and public trust decide whether any other risk can be managed at all. This subsite relates the governance, security, societal and information standards that make public decisions traceable, without turning them into scores of countries or people. Every artifact of these areas carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Nexus Standards (2026). Governance, Security and Society: master subsite of the Nexus Standards (PROPOSED areas). https://nexustandards.com/society/. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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Every area of the subsite with its tier, status, the Nexus Standards it lists, the open standards it names, its feeds and its couplings. Area entries are PROPOSED; registry rows are named where they exist.
Area index4 of 8 areas have a registry row; the rest are proposed areas with a full context entry and no registry row yet. Feed counts include sources pending admission.
Open Earth observation layers framed on horn of africa, as an example geography for governance, security and society: context for where its records live, never an assessment and never a statement of where the standards apply. Layers, dates and credits are on the map.
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Where people live, night-time lights and the floods and fires public institutions answer to, framed on the Horn of Africa.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
Layers and dates
Provider, licence, delivery path and register status for each source. A source is live on a public page only after an owner decision admits it; until then it reads pending admission.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
DesInventar disaster loss databasespending admission
UNDRR · national updates
UNDRR terms (to be recorded by Legal/IP)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
IMF data services (IFS, FSI, WEO, GFS)pending admission
International Monetary Fund · monthly to annual
IMF copyright and usage terms (reuse with attribution; not an open licence)
GRIx governed readregister row exists
INFORM Risk Indexpending admission
European Commission JRC · annual with mid-year update
CC BY 4.0 under the Commission reuse policy
GRIx governed readregister row exists
UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset and Candidate Eventspending admission
Uppsala Conflict Data Program · monthly candidate, annual final
CC BY 4.0; Foundry register: LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
build-time snapshotregister row exists
UNHCR Refugee Data Finderpending admission
UNHCR · semi-annual
CC BY 4.0 as stated by the adapter, not verified; Foundry register: LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
build-time snapshotregister row exists
WMO Alert Hub and Register of Alerting Authoritiespending admission
World Meteorological Organization · real time
WMO Unified Data Policy plus each alerting authority's terms
GRIx governed readregister row exists
World Bank Open Data and World Development Indicators APIpending admission
World Bank · quarterly
CC BY 4.0 for most datasets; Foundry register: LEGAL_REVIEW_REQUIRED
GRIx governed readregister row exists
World Development Indicatorspending admission
World Bank · annual with quarterly updates
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
WorldPop gridded populationpending admission
WorldPop (University of Southampton) · annual
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
GDELT event database and global knowledge graphpending admission
The GDELT Project · 15-minute
Open for any use with citation (GDELT terms)
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Geopolitical Risk Index (Caldara and Iacoviello)pending admission
Caldara and Iacoviello · monthly
Free for research with citation; licence to be recorded by Legal
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Global SDG Indicators Databasepending admission
UN Statistics Division · annual
United Nations terms of use; licence to be recorded by Legal
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) datasetspending admission
UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data · continuous
Per-dataset licence on HDX
build-time snapshotproposed register row
ITU DataHub ICT indicatorspending admission
International Telecommunication Union · annual
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (ITU DataHub terms; third-party series under their owners' terms)
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Our World in Data datasetspending admission
Global Change Data Lab (Our World in Data) · varies
CC BY 4.0 for OWID-produced data; third-party data keep their licences
build-time snapshotproposed register row
SDG Global Databasepending admission
United Nations Statistics Division · annual
UN terms of use (reuse with attribution; to be recorded)
build-time snapshotproposed register row
V-Dem datasetpending admission
V-Dem Institute (University of Gothenburg) · annual
CC BY-SA 4.0
build-time snapshotproposed register row
V-Dem datasetpending admission
Varieties of Democracy Institute, University of Gothenburg · annual
CC BY-SA 4.0
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Worldwide Governance Indicatorspending admission
World Bank · annual
CC BY 4.0
build-time snapshotproposed register row
39 coupling rows join this subsite's areas to 14 other subsites, counted from the systemicContext rows of the area context bank in both directions. Select a card on the canvas to trace it.
Fig.Edge labels count coupling rows. GATE marks a subsite, DONE and RUNNING an area of this subsite. Tags give reading order only. Design, not a record.
| Coupled subsite | Rows | Example mechanism |
|---|---|---|
| Humanitarian Action and Development | 7 | Communication with communities in crises depends on trusted local media.Media and information to Humanitarian and civil society |
| Digital, Cyber and AI | 5 | Common driver: intrusion and influence operations combine in hybrid campaigns.Cyber and digital risk standards to Information integrity and trust |
| Finance, Insurance and the Economy | 4 | Feedback: fiscal stress and political instability reinforce sovereign spreads.Financial and economic risk standards to Political and governance risk standards |
| Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction | 4 | Civil protection is part of national DRR governance and Sendai reporting.Defence and civil protection to Public sector and government |
| Health and Biosecurity | 3 | Cascade: attacks on health care and displacement drive outbreaks.Conflict and security risk standards to Health risk standards |
| Readiness and Adoption | 3 | A government adopting Nexus Standards does so through the national adoption pathway and its recorded decisions.Public sector and government to National adoption pathway |
| Water and Food Systems | 3 | Feedback: conflict disrupts production and markets, and food price spikes are associated with unrest.Food and agriculture risk standards to Conflict and security risk standards |
| Cities and the Built Environment | 2 | Local DRR strategies are adopted by local governments and reported nationally under Sendai target E.Cities and the built environment to Public sector and government |
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
Standards that applyA filled cell means the area's context entry lists that Nexus Standard. Context entries are PROPOSED; no cell is a conformance, certification or readiness statement.
Political and governance risk standards · GCRI Canada may admit governance indicator records that carry confidence intervals and source composition as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
Conflict and security risk standards · GCRI Canada may admit conflict and displacement records with source, precision and protection review as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
Societal and information risk standards · GCRI Canada may admit social vulnerability records that publish components, weights and disaggregation as research evidence; GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence and research rules, and no approval is implied.
5 more areas state what this pathway reads; each area page has its own line.
Political and governance risk standards · GRF may record public bodies that publish decision records on the shared profile as a recognition dialogue; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
Conflict and security risk standards · GRF may record humanitarian actors adopting the shared data-responsibility clauses as a dialogue item; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
Societal and information risk standards · GRF may record communities and agencies that publish disaggregated records on the shared profile as a dialogue item; GRF decides under its own recognition rules, and no recognition or endorsement is implied.
5 more areas state what this pathway reads; each area page has its own line.
Political and governance risk standards · GRA may read governance and regulatory-event records when it considers institutional risk in projects; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
Conflict and security risk standards · GRA may read conflict-risk records when it considers investment in fragile settings; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
Societal and information risk standards · GRA may read social vulnerability records when it screens projects for distributional risk; GRA decides under its own capital-readiness rules, and no approval, rating or investment view is implied.
5 more areas state what this pathway reads; each area page has its own line.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Each area proposes a working group with a scope, deliverables and liaison targets; a liaison is sought, never claimed, until the body confirms it in writing.
| Area | Working group scope | Deliverables | Liaison sought |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political and governance risk standards | Governance indicators, regulatory events and machine-readable policy records with honest measurement error. | 3 | 4World Bank Governance Global Practice, Open Contracting Partnership, OECD Public Governance Directorate, V-Dem Institute |
| Conflict and security risk standards | Conflict, displacement and access records for civilian use with protection and data-responsibility safeguards. | 3 | 4OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data, UNHCR, Uppsala Conflict Data Program, ICRC data protection team |
| Societal and information risk standards | Records for social vulnerability, demographic exposure and information provenance with ethical safeguards. | 3 | 4UN Statistics Division, UNDRR Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism, UNESCO, Coalition for Content Provenance and… |
| Geopolitical and security risk | Records for geopolitical events, sanctions and risk indices. | 3 | 4UN Security Council sanctions secretariat (public lists), OECD, Uppsala Conflict Data Program, academic geopolitical… |
| Information integrity and trust | Records for content provenance, verification and correction. | 3 | 4Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, W3C Credentials Community Group, UNESCO, UN Department of Global… |
| Media and information | Profile content provenance, warning relay and claim-review records for media and crosswalk them to C2PA, IPTC, ClaimReview and CAP. | 3 | 4C2PA, IPTC, UNESCO (Communication and Information Sector), European Broadcasting Union |
| Public sector and government | Profile public-sector risk strategy, loss database, procurement and decision records and crosswalk them to the Sendai Monitor, OECD recommendations and OCDS. | 3 | 4UNDRR, OECD Public Governance Directorate, Open Contracting Partnership, UN Statistical Commission |
| For policy makers | Curate the policy learning path, keep its framework citations current and collect policy readers' comments into dockets. | 3 | 3OECD Public Governance Directorate, UNDRR, Standards Council of Canada |
Pick an area above, adopt its proposed charter and file it as a docket under NS-13; editors decide with written reasons. Develop a standard
Every area entry is PROPOSED: a pull request against the area context bank names the change and its source, peer-reviewed or published statistics.
Propose a feed with provider, licence and delivery path; Legal/IP records the terms and the owner decides admission. Agents never admit a source.
Contribute to an external standard through its own body's channels; the outcome comes back here as a register change. Movement and contribution
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics as the area entries cite them, newest first within each type.
The Nexus Risk Standards read in Governance, Security and Society, the NHS-1 hazard domains it carries and its library: scope, codes, schemas, conformance, governance, templates, crosswalks, change log and how to contribute.
D, H, M, P, U and X
NHS-1 soc14 families
LibraryRisk Academy disciplines that teach Governance, Security and Society, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Charter a working group, correct a brief or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.