N Square Framework for Success

NETWORK IMPACT

A Collaborative Network That: Engages and Maintains Engagement of:

• Innovators and influencers within technology and media fields

• Leaders and emerging leaders within the nuclear threat reduction field2

While Building the Capacity of Members to:

• Collaborate, prototype, iterate, and provide feedback

• Understand audiences, identify needs, and design solutions

With Support From:

• Existing nuclear threat organizations that take on implementation of key activities

• Existing and new funders that support the network and fund in ways that incentivize innovations emerging from the network

• Tools and technical assistance to facilitate members engaging with one another and in innovation

Leading to Innovations Emerging From the Network That:

• Directly respond to or create a “demand” from their target audience

• Include new tools, technologies, processes, and other ways of responding to the problem

• Begin to be scaled to expand their reach and impact

Leading to Impact on Nuclear Threat Reduction Through:

• Full implementation of tools, technologies, and ways of responding to the problem

• Adoption of new policies and practices

• Use of new framing

• Expanded or shifted public awareness

Leading to Significant Changes to the Nuclear Threat Reduction Field Including:

• Having a culture and clear incentives that encourage and actively support innovation

• Having leading organizations prioritize innovation and adapt their practices to be more innovative, collaborative, and engaged across sectors

• Having more ways for those outside the nuclear threat reduction field to engage in the work

• Having innovations emerging from the network adopted and scaled