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Engineering and digital cell

Protocol lab cell

Builds and refines risk management methods and the tools that run them.

Start this cellAll cell types
To launch
3 members
or more
Roles
3
each a credential
Decides by
Advice process
yours to change
Joining
By request
set per cell

How it works

The operating model

  1. People

    • Maintainer1 needed
    • Reviewer1 needed
    • Security contact1 needed

  2. How it decides

    1. Propose
    2. Discuss
    3. Advice process
    4. Record and sign
    • Conflict-of-interest recusal

  3. First work

    • ProjectSpecification
    • ProjectFirst release
    • IssueChoose the open licence
    • IssueSet the review rule for changes
    • CallContributors and testers

  4. Services

    • Data
    • Maps and twins
    • Standards
    • Review hub
    • Help desk

Start this cell

Protocol lab cell

Cells · GRA

What would you like to do?

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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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)
  • Maintainer
  • Reviewer
  • Security contact

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.

Find a cell

No cell is open to join here yet

Go back and choose "Form a cell" to start the first one.

Ask to join

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

Your organisation

The network body reviews the offer and lists the organisation as a host.

Cells it can host

Review and submit

Check your answers. You can change any of them later from the cell.

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In detail

Purpose, roles, agreements and expertise

Purpose

Builds and maintains open tools, digital twins and infrastructure, with open licences, reviewed changes and release records.

Roles and what each does
RoleWhat it doesMinimum
MaintainerOwns a tool, twin or service and accepts changes to it.1 required
ReviewerReviews changes, drafts or claims before they are accepted.1 required
Security contactReceives security reports and coordinates fixes.1 required
The whole starter work programme

First projects

  • Specification
  • First release
  • Security and accessibility review

First issues

  • Choose the open licence
  • Set the review rule for changes
  • Run an accessibility check

Open calls

  • Contributors and testers
Decision rule and agreements

Advice process

Anyone may decide, after seeking advice from everyone affected and from those with expertise; the advice is on the record.

  • Cell charter Required The mission, scope, host, roles, governance model and how the cell closes.
  • Membership agreement Required What members commit to, how they join and leave, and how credit is recorded.
  • Data sharing agreement Optional What data the cell holds, who may use it, for what, and for how long.
  • Intellectual property and open licence Required Who owns the outputs and the open licence they are published under.
  • Code of conduct and safeguarding Required How members treat each other, how concerns are raised, and who acts on them.
Expertise and competence evidence
  • Digital public infrastructure and digital identity
  • Cybersecurity and digital resilience
  • Reliability, safety and resilience engineering
  • Critical infrastructure and lifelines
  • Data infrastructure, compute and semiconductors
  • Computer science
  • Electrical and electronic engineering
  • Civil and structural engineering
  • Data science and statistics
  • Machine learning and artificial intelligence
  • Operations research and decision science
  • Maintainer Digital public infrastructure and digital identity, at capability level 4 (Stewarded practice)
Where it can form

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