{ "framework": "National Capability Framework", "name": "Information & Influence", "version": "0.1", "supersedes": "0.0", "version_date": "2026-08-16", "metadata": { "description": "Version 0.1 of the Information & Influence domain of the National Capability Framework, released in coordination with Governance & Integrity v0.1. This release restructures the domain from six capability groups and 19 capabilities to six groups and 18 capabilities, makes the domain purely outward-facing by consolidating domestic cohesion and trust into the governance domain, applies the rule that every description opens 'The capacity to' together with the corollary established for this territory, that an index is not an institution and the capability is the machinery the index observes, establishes the machinery, performance, position indicator read beneath every capability, and validates the structure against the standing machinery of statecraft worldwide: diplomatic network assessments, alliance and security-cooperation architectures, development and humanitarian assistance systems, cultural and language institute networks, flagship scholarship and alumni programmes, dedicated diaspora ministries and agencies, international broadcasting systems, and the counter-interference and psychological-defence agencies established from 2022 onward.", "change_summary": [ "The domain becomes purely outward-facing: the National Identity & Social Cohesion group dissolves into the governance domain, where participation merges into one home and trust and cohesion demote to the performance layer of political institutions. Influence now records how the nation acts on the world, not how it holds together, closing three cross-domain duplicates in one move.", "The corollary applied throughout: every description rewritten from definition or outcome to the machinery of influence, with reach, flows, stocks and standing demoted to the indicator layers of named capabilities.", "Alliances & Security Cooperation created as a capability group, landing the convention set in the National Security release: alliances and partnerships are influence, with interoperability reading as indicators. Alliance and treaty networks and security cooperation and defence diplomacy stand up as new capabilities.", "Development Cooperation & Global Assistance created as a capability group, landing the economic release's promise that development finance deployed as statecraft is influence's: development cooperation and finance, and humanitarian assistance and response abroad, stand up as new capabilities, with domestic development banks remaining in Financial Strength and military disaster response remaining in National Security.", "Mediation & Crisis Diplomacy added to the diplomatic group: standing good-offices capability is a named specialisation of a dozen states and had no node in v0.0.", "The language group merges into the culture group, resolving a self-named capability and a thin structure: the institute capability carries as the machinery that teaches the language and carries the culture, global language reach demotes to its position layer, and the tourism node retires to the Trade & Investment capability stood up in the economic release, with people-to-people flows persisting here as exchange indicators.", "The education tri-split completes: recruitment is Human Capital's talent attraction, education exports are Trade & Investment's services trade, and the third leg lands here as Education Diplomacy & Alumni Networks, the scholarship and alumni machinery.", "The diaspora group rebuilt from two statistics and an outcome into machinery: engagement institutions carry as the organising capability, scale and remittances demote to the position and performance layers, and diaspora knowledge networks and circulation stands up as the second capability.", "The information group completes as the domain's closer: strategic communications and international broadcasting carry recast, and the disinformation node is recast as Information Defence & Counter-Interference, matching the standing psychological-defence and counter-interference agencies established from 2022 onward. The interference triangle is codified: technical intrusion is National Security's, electoral protection is governance's, content defence is here.", "Economic statecraft ruled a mode, not a node: the employment of economic weight reads across this domain's diplomatic and alliance capabilities, with the administering machinery in governance's strategic controls and the position in Trade & Investment's leverage group.", "The culture seam codified as three lenses: creative production is Production & Innovation's, creative trade is Trade & Investment's, and promotion and penetration are held here, the same industry read without duplication.", "Identifier persistence: the domain code, four of six capability group codes and twelve capability codes are carried, two capabilities by same-level relocation from the merged language group; nine codes are retired (see retired_codes), every one against a named successor or destination; all new nodes carry null codes pending assignment.", "Capability groups reordered to the domain line and documented per node in the order_logic field: convene, ally, assist, inspire, gather, tell, with the protective capability closing the final group.", "Corrections to the house standard: spellings normalised and every description rewritten from definition to capacity." ], "retired_codes": [ { "code": "factbase.org/cpg/WH10A7ZN0B", "name": "National Identity & Social Cohesion", "disposition": "Group dissolved into Governance & Integrity: domestic cohesion, trust and participation belong with the institutions that produce them, leaving this domain purely outward-facing." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cpg/CK5CCP8407", "name": "Language & People-to-People Exchange", "disposition": "Group merged into Culture, Language & Education Diplomacy (factbase.org/cpg/R5MWRRWZ2F): language, exchange and culture are one inspiring capability family." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/GS4WRJDT2X", "name": "Civic Trust & Unity", "disposition": "To Governance & Integrity, demoted to the performance layer under Political Institutions & Civic Participation: trust is what the institutions produce, read by the standing trust surveys, never a node." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/SQDCVJK114", "name": "Resilience & Stability", "disposition": "To Governance & Integrity: stability perceptions read at the position layer across that domain, and societal crisis capability is held by its National Resilience & Crisis Management group, closing a triple duplicate." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/3SKKKXXM1Y", "name": "Shared Values & Civic Participation", "disposition": "Merged into Citizen Participation & Civic Space (factbase.org/cap/B5B7X7P80H) in Governance & Integrity: one home for participation." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/WE59EXAC1C", "name": "Global Language Reach", "disposition": "Demoted to the position layer under Cultural & Language Institutes: speakers and learners worldwide are the standing the machinery earns, not a capability." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/50S746S609", "name": "Tourism & Travel Exchange", "disposition": "To Trade & Investment, under Tourism & Visitor Economy, the single economic home; people-to-people flows persist here as exchange indicators across the culture group." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/R1WQJS4G1W", "name": "Diaspora Scale & Distribution", "disposition": "Demoted to the position layer under Diaspora Engagement & Institutions: the stock of the nation abroad is the standing, not the capability." }, { "code": "factbase.org/cap/E0RJHF5C01", "name": "Economic Contribution", "disposition": "Demoted to the performance layer under Diaspora Engagement & Institutions: remittances and diaspora investment are what engagement delivers." } ] }, "description": "The capacity to be heard, believed, joined and followed: convening the world through diplomacy, binding partners through alliances and cooperation, attracting through assistance, inspiring through culture, language and education, gathering the nation beyond its borders, and telling the national story while defending the information space it travels through.", "boundary_conditions": "Information & Influence holds the outward-facing machinery of national weight under the corollary shared with governance: an index is not an institution, the capability is the machinery the index observes, and every capability reads machinery, performance, position at the indicator layer, headline first. The domain is purely external: domestic cohesion, trust and participation belong to the governance domain and its institutions. The seams: memberships of institutions and alliances are held here, per the framework convention, with the capabilities they exercise remaining in their home domains and interoperability reading as indicators from National Security; economic statecraft is a mode, not a node, its employment reading across this domain's capabilities, its administering machinery in governance's strategic controls and its position in Trade & Investment's leverage group; culture is read through three lenses, production in Production & Innovation, trade in Trade & Investment, promotion and penetration here; education splits three ways, recruitment to Human Capital, exports to Trade & Investment, scholarship and alumni machinery here; tourism's economic capability is Trade & Investment's, with people-to-people flows reading here; military disaster response and expeditionary operations are National Security's, with civilian assistance held here; arms-transfer relationships read here as security cooperation, with the industry in Production & Innovation and the military capability in National Security; and the interference triangle is fixed, technical intrusion to National Security, electoral protection to governance, content defence here. Excluded by design: nation-brand and soft-power rankings, which are position reads across the domain, and intent, since the domain records the machinery of persuasion with its uses classified where they occur.", "order_logic": "Six beats: convene, ally, assist, inspire, gather, tell. The official voice first, because diplomacy is the standing instrument everything else moves through; then the commitments that bind partners, the assistance that attracts, the culture that inspires, the nation gathered beyond its borders, and the narrative and its defence closing. Within groups the standing institution precedes the outcome it produces and the protective or outward capacity closes, so the domain's final capability is the defence of the information space. At the indicator layer every capability reads machinery, performance, position, with the headline measure leading within each.", "version_changes": "Restructured from six capability groups and 19 capabilities to six groups and 18 capabilities, rewritten from definitions and outcomes to the machinery of influence: the cohesion group dissolves to governance and the domain becomes purely outward-facing, two new groups land the alliance and assistance promises made by earlier releases, the education tri-split completes, and nine identifiers retire against named successors, with boundary_conditions and order_logic documented at every level.", "code": "factbase.org/dom/B2K5Q48B21", "level": "domain", "capabilityGroups": [ { "name": "Diplomatic Statecraft & Global Networks", "description": "The capacity to work the world through the standing instrument of statecraft: a global network of missions, leadership within the institutions, the setting of agendas and the good offices that resolve what others cannot.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds the diplomatic machinery. Memberships land here as indicators under multilateral leadership, per the framework convention; standards diplomacy reads under norm setting with the technical position in Critical Technology's control layer; negotiation of trade terms is Trade & Investment's; and the foreign service workforce develops through Human Capital, deploying here.", "order_logic": "The convene beat of the domain line. Presence, position, initiative, specialisation: the network first, the standing position in the institutions, the capacity to set agendas from that position, and the good offices closing.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Diplomatic & Global Networks) with the same identifier; three capabilities carry recast from descriptions to machinery, and mediation and crisis diplomacy is added as the group's specialised closer.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/94ZKMVVR08", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Diplomatic Network & Consular Reach", "description": "The capacity to be present everywhere that matters: the global network of missions, the foreign service behind it and the consular machinery that protects citizens abroad.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the network and its consular function; military evacuation is National Security's expeditionary capability, and network scale and reach are the performance and position layers.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Diplomatic Presence) with the same identifier; recast from presence, the outcome, to the network machinery, with consular protection named.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/76H8AY3M1X", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "diplomatic missions worldwide", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "global diplomacy network ranking", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "states with resident representation", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Multilateral Leadership & Norm Setting", "description": "The capacity to lead within the institutions and shape the rules they write: leadership posts held, processes chaired, funding weight carried and norms carried from proposal to adoption.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers institutional position and norm entrepreneurship; memberships themselves read at this capability's machinery layer per the convention, standards diplomacy reads here with the technical control position in Critical Technology, and votes, posts and funding shares are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Multilateral Engagement) with the same identifier; recast from participation to leadership and norm setting, absorbing the membership reading assigned to this domain by the economic release.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/B79Z47MP13", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "leadership posts held in international bodies", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "assessed and voluntary funding shares", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "resolutions and standards initiated", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Agenda-Setting & Convening", "description": "The capacity to make the world discuss what the nation proposes: initiatives launched and sustained, summits and processes hosted, coalitions convened around the nation's questions.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers initiative and convening machinery; mega-event hosting in sport and culture reads under the culture group, and initiative uptake and hosting record are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Agenda-Setting Capacity) with the same identifier; sharpened from capacity as abstraction to the convening machinery that exercises it.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/V68CVFT51W", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "major summits and processes hosted", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "international initiatives launched and sustained", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Mediation & Crisis Diplomacy", "description": "The capacity to stand between others: standing mediation and good-offices machinery, facilitation of processes others cannot host and the trusted-intermediary position that only accumulates.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the mediation capability; peace operations are National Security's expeditionary capability, and facilitated processes and trusted-party standing are the performance and position layers.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: a named specialisation of a dozen states with standing units and track records, absent from v0.0.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [] } ] }, { "name": "Alliances & Security Cooperation", "description": "The capacity to bind partners: the treaties and alliances that commit nations to each other, and the daily security cooperation that gives the commitments substance.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds the partnership machinery, landing the convention set in the National Security release: alliances are influence, with the military capabilities they aggregate remaining in National Security and interoperability reading here as indicators. Arms-transfer relationships read here as cooperation, with the exporting industry in Production & Innovation; basing and access agreements read here, with the bases as National Security and Strategic Infrastructure holdings; and the employment of the network in crisis is a mode read across the domain.", "order_logic": "The ally beat of the domain line. Commitment before cooperation: the binding treaties and alliance networks first, the security cooperation that operationalises them closing.", "version_changes": "New group in v0.1, standing up the landing zone promised since the National Security release: v0.0 held no alliance or partnership capability anywhere in the framework despite three domains pointing at one. Both capabilities are new with null identifiers pending assignment.", "code": null, "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Alliance & Treaty Networks", "description": "The capacity to hold binding commitments: mutual-defence treaties, alliance memberships in good standing, partnership agreements and the coalition leadership that turns a network into weight.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the commitment network; the military capability aggregated is National Security's, interoperability reads here as the performance layer from that domain's indicators, and network breadth and depth are the position layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: the framework's most-promised missing node, landing the alliances convention.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "mutual defence treaty allies", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "strategic partnership agreements in force", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "basing and access agreements", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Security Cooperation & Defence Diplomacy", "description": "The capacity to cooperate on security every day: training and exercises with partners, attaché networks, security assistance and the arms-transfer relationships through which defence ties are built.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the cooperation machinery; the defence industry is Production & Innovation's sector and the transferred capability National Security's concern, with assistance volumes, exercise tempo and transfer relationships as the performance layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: the standing cooperation machinery beneath every alliance, absent from v0.0.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "bilateral and multilateral exercises per year", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "foreign personnel trained", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "arms transfer deliveries and recipient count", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Development Cooperation & Global Assistance", "description": "The capacity to attract by assisting: development cooperation and finance deployed abroad, and humanitarian assistance delivered at speed when the world breaks.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds assistance as statecraft, landing the economic release's promise: development finance projected abroad is influence's, with domestic development banks remaining in Financial Strength. Military disaster response is National Security's expeditionary capability, with civilian assistance held here; contributions to global funds and missions read here as performance; and the effectiveness of assistance as attraction is the position read.", "order_logic": "The assist beat of the domain line. The long programme first, the emergency second: development cooperation as the standing relationship, humanitarian response closing as the capability that shows up when it matters most.", "version_changes": "New group in v0.1, landing the promise made twice by the economic release: assistance as statecraft had no home in v0.0. Both capabilities are new with null identifiers pending assignment.", "code": null, "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Development Cooperation & Finance", "description": "The capacity to fund and shape development abroad: assistance agencies, development finance deployed as statecraft and the programme machinery that sustains relationships over decades.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the outward assistance machinery; domestic development banks are Financial Strength's, concessional export finance reads with Trade & Investment's export credit, and assistance volumes, terms and shares are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: one of the largest standing instruments of influence, absent from v0.0.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "official development assistance volume and share of national income", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "recipient country coverage", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "development finance commitments abroad", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Humanitarian Assistance & Response Abroad", "description": "The capacity to respond to others' disasters: deployable civilian teams, humanitarian funding at speed and the logistics of arriving first with help that works.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers civilian humanitarian capability; military disaster response is National Security's, domestic emergency management is governance's resilience group, and response record and funding shares are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: certified deployable response capability and humanitarian standing, absent from v0.0.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "humanitarian funding contributed", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "certified deployable response teams", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "international responses mounted", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Culture, Language & Education Diplomacy", "description": "The capacity to inspire: the institutes that teach the language and carry the culture, the creative industries that export it, the heritage that anchors it, the education that binds people to it and the great shared stages that display it.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds cultural statecraft under the three-lens seam: creative production is Production & Innovation's services economy, creative trade is Trade & Investment's, promotion and penetration are here. Education splits three ways, with recruitment in Human Capital, exports in Trade & Investment and the scholarship and alumni machinery here; tourism's economic capability is Trade & Investment's, with people-to-people flows reading here as exchange indicators; and heritage sites as physical assets read with Strategic Infrastructure, their diplomacy here.", "order_logic": "The inspire beat of the domain line. The carriers first, then the culture they carry: the institutes that teach it, the industries that export it, the heritage that anchors it, the education that binds people to it, and the great shared stages closing.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Cultural Reach & Influence) with the same identifier, absorbing the Language & People-to-People Exchange group (retired by merge): two capabilities relocate in with their identifiers, language reach and tourism retire to the indicator layer and the economic dimension respectively, and every description is rewritten from definition to machinery.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/R5MWRRWZ2F", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Cultural & Language Institutes", "description": "The capacity to teach the nation to the world: institute networks, language programmes and the standing people-to-people machinery that makes a culture learnable from anywhere.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the institute and exchange machinery; formal education exports are Trade & Investment's, and global speakers and learners are this capability's position layer, absorbing the retired reach node.", "version_changes": "Relocated in v0.1 from the merged language group (formerly the group's self-named exchange node) at the same level, carrying its identifier; recast to the institute machinery, with Global Language Reach (retired) demoted to its position layer.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/YGR6XDCE23", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "cultural institute branches abroad", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "language learners worldwide", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "speakers of the national language globally", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Creative Industries & Cultural Export Reach", "description": "The capacity to be watched, heard and read abroad: the promotion machinery behind film, music, publishing, fashion and games, and the penetration their content achieves in other people's living rooms.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers promotion and penetration, the third lens of the culture seam: production is Production & Innovation's, trade is Trade & Investment's, and streaming-era reach and content standing are the position layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Creative & Cultural Exports) with the same identifier; recast from the exports, which are the trade domain's, to the promotion machinery and the reach it earns.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/PZGZQQR81N", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "creative goods and services exports", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "share of top global streaming and box office titles", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "music and publishing export earnings", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Heritage & Cultural Institutions", "description": "The capacity to hold and share the inheritance: inscription and stewardship machinery, museums and collections of world standing and the heritage diplomacy, including restitution, through which the past does present work.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers heritage statecraft; the sites and buildings as assets read with Strategic Infrastructure, and inscriptions, visitation and institutional standing are the performance and position layers.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Heritage & Institutions) with the same identifier; recast from a description of legacy to the stewardship and diplomacy machinery.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/CGQZWXMC1A", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "inscribed world heritage sites", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "museum visitation of leading institutions", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "heritage restitution agreements concluded", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Education Diplomacy & Alumni Networks", "description": "The capacity to form the world's future leaders and keep them: flagship scholarships, exchange programmes and the alumni machinery that turns a degree into a lifelong relationship.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the third leg of the education tri-split: recruitment is Human Capital's talent attraction, exports are Trade & Investment's services trade, and scholarship scale and alumni network reach are the performance and position layers.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Student & Academic Exchange) with the same identifier, relocated from the merged language group; recast to the scholarship and alumni machinery, completing the tri-split established in the Human Capital release.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/6RBHMCP22W", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "flagship scholarships awarded per year", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "alumni of national programmes in senior office abroad", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "exchange programme participation", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Sports & Major Events", "description": "The capacity to take and hold the world's stage: hosting capability for the great events, sporting systems that win on it and the event diplomacy that converts spectacle into standing.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers hosting and sporting statecraft; venues and transport are Strategic Infrastructure's, the visitor economy is Trade & Investment's, and hosting record and sporting results are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Sports & Mega-Events) with the same identifier; recast from involvement to the hosting and performance machinery, with the tourism node (retired) departed to the economic dimension.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/J1SDVVPQ1B", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "major international events hosted", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "medal table standing at global games", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "international federation leadership positions", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] }, { "name": "Diaspora & Global Communities", "description": "The capacity to gather the nation beyond its borders: the institutions that organise the diaspora and the knowledge networks that circulate its talent home.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds diaspora statecraft. Remittances and diaspora investment read here at the performance layer rather than as economic nodes; migration for skills is Human Capital's talent attraction; diaspora voting machinery reads with governance's electoral capability; and host-country political engagement is recorded as capacity, with its uses classified where they occur.", "order_logic": "The gather beat of the domain line. The organising machinery first, the circulation it enables closing: institutions, then networks.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 with the same identifier; rebuilt from two statistics and an outcome into machinery, with scale and remittances demoted to the indicator layers and the knowledge-circulation capability new.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/4X2ZZZNJ02", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Diaspora Engagement & Institutions", "description": "The capacity to organise the nation abroad: dedicated ministries, agencies and standing programmes that register, serve, mobilise and keep faith with citizens and communities of origin worldwide.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the engagement machinery; the diaspora's size and spread are this capability's position layer and its remittances and investment the performance layer, absorbing the two retired statistic nodes.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Political & Cultural Influence Abroad) with the same identifier; recast from the influence, an outcome, to the engagement machinery, absorbing Diaspora Scale & Distribution and Economic Contribution (both retired) at its indicator layers.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/5TTP180P26", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "dedicated diaspora institutions and programmes", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "emigrant population stock", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "remittance inflows to GDP", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Diaspora Knowledge Networks & Circulation", "description": "The capacity to circulate talent home without demanding return: expert networks, mentoring and investment circuits and the programmes that turn brain drain into brain circulation.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the circulation machinery; permanent return and recruitment are Human Capital's talent attraction, and network membership and circulation activity are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "New in v0.1: standing knowledge-network machinery operated by a growing set of states, absent from v0.0.", "code": null, "level": "capability", "indicators": [] } ] }, { "name": "Information Environment & Strategic Communication", "description": "The capacity to tell the national story and defend the space it travels through: the government's voice abroad, media that reach the world and the standing defence of the information environment against interference.", "boundary_conditions": "Holds the information statecraft of the nation as the domain's closer. The interference triangle is fixed: technical intrusion and network defence are National Security's cyber capabilities, electoral protection is governance's electoral machinery, and content defence and counter-interference are here; domestic media freedom and the accountability function are governance's, with international reach held here; and platform technology is Critical Technology's, with presence on it reading here at position.", "order_logic": "The tell beat, closing the domain. Speak, broadcast, defend: the government's voice first, the standing media reach second, and the defence of the information space closing as the domain's protective capability.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Information Influence & Integrity) with the same identifier; all three capabilities carry, the media node recast to international reach with the domestic seam drawn, and the disinformation node recast to the standing defence machinery now institutionalised as agencies.", "code": "factbase.org/cpg/PZT0469X18", "level": "capability group", "capabilities": [ { "name": "Strategic Communications & Public Diplomacy", "description": "The capacity to speak to the world on purpose: campaign machinery, public diplomacy programmes and the coordination that keeps a government's many voices telling one story.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers the government's outward voice; domestic government communication reads with governance's centre of government, and message reach and resonance are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Strategic Communications Capacity) with the same identifier; recast from capacity as abstraction to the campaign and coordination machinery.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/SZYZ49YS1X", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "public diplomacy expenditure", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "official channel audience across platforms", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "International Media & Broadcasting", "description": "The capacity to reach the world's audiences directly: international broadcasters, multilingual services and the platform-era presence through which the nation's outlets are seen and heard abroad.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers international reach; domestic media freedom and the accountability function are governance's capability, the platforms' technology is Critical Technology's, and audience reach and language coverage are the performance and position layers.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Media Presence & Reach) with the same identifier; recast to international broadcasting and reach, with the domestic seam to governance drawn.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/RWBBGPMC09", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "weekly international audience reach", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "languages of service broadcast", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "international bureaux operated", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] }, { "name": "Information Defence & Counter-Interference", "description": "The capacity to defend the information space: standing psychological-defence and counter-interference machinery, attribution and response capability, and the media-literacy programmes that harden the population itself.", "boundary_conditions": "Covers content defence and counter-interference, the domain's protective closer; technical intrusion is National Security's cyber defence, electoral protection is governance's electoral machinery, and detected campaigns, response record and population resilience are the performance layer.", "version_changes": "Carried from v0.0 (formerly Disinformation Resilience) with the same identifier; recast from resilience, an outcome, to the standing defence machinery institutionalised as dedicated agencies from 2022 onward.", "code": "factbase.org/cap/YYX8KHQR17", "level": "capability", "indicators": [ { "name": "standing counter-interference machinery in place", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "interference campaigns publicly attributed", "code": null, "level": "indicator" }, { "name": "population media literacy scores", "code": null, "level": "indicator" } ] } ] } ] }