Research, Analysis & Partnership
NexusG8's field research: joint studies with the events, masajid, organizations and institutions of our communities. Each one maps a real community or event: who is in it, what they need, and who should meet whom. Published under both our names, and read through the Meccan Protocol, NexusG8's proprietary model of how a connected community creates value.
Research agenda
Three questions, one aim
Every study serves one aim: that a community can see what it already holds, and put it to work for its own people. Each study follows the same three steps as CIaaS: map, route, circulate.
- 01 · MappingWhat’s already in your network?Your network is every group your members already belong to: the masjid, the WhatsApp group, the conference, the alumni list. We map what your people know, what they need and what they’re working towards, so the community can see itself for the first time. Counted, never named.
- 02 · RoutingHow much opportunity is hidden in it?Most people in a network could help each other and never find out. We count every pair with a clear reason to meet, then measure what turns a match into a real introduction.
- 03 · CirculatingHow much capital is sitting idle?Skills, jobs, customers, investment and help already exist inside our networks, but most of it never reaches the person who needs it. We measure how much can start moving, and stay among us, once it’s mapped and routed. By capital we mean more than money: skill, work, trade, investment and care.
Publications
Field studies
Call for research partners · open
A request for partners, in six parts
Purpose of the call
We are inviting a small number of communities and events to take part in a joint field study. We want to know what a masjid, a university, a WhatsApp group, a networking event or a summit holds once it is mapped: how many of its people could help each other, and how much could circulate among them. Every study is published, so that every community can learn from it.
Who may apply
- Events and conferences, of any size
- Networking events
- Masajid and Islamic centers
- Community organizations and associations
- Universities and student associations
- Research institutes and think tanks
- WhatsApp groups and communities
- Networks and group chats with a steward who answers for them
What a study involves
- 1Agree the scope. A short call to choose the community or event, the dates and the questions your community most wants answered
- 2Invite your people. Your people arrive through a tap or a scan, take a name of their own and answer four questions
- 3The field window. The study runs through your event or your month, with nothing for your team to operate
- 4Analysis. Within two weeks we freeze the numbers and read them through the Meccan Protocol
- 5The joint study. You read it first. It is published only once one of your founders or leaders signs it
- 6The monthly review. Twenty minutes, once a month, to read your community together and decide what to build next
What NexusG8 provides
- The study's design, its questions and its field window
- The tools your people use: a Community Nexus, the Town Hall, and the printed codes people scan
- The analysis, under the Meccan Protocol, with every number frozen and every projection labeled
- The written study, designed and published under both our names
What a partner receives
- Co-authorship of a published field study, which carries your name only with your signature
- A permanent short address for your community on 1g8.io, given for life, to be its everyday home: its homepage, its socials and its announcements. A community’s address is normally the upgrade, worth $999 a year at the price of Gateway, the plan a community runs on, at today’s price; for a research partner it is a gift
- What the study found about your own people, for your own planning
- A standing seat in the monthly review, below
What we ask of a partner
Open your community or event to the study, and sign it before it is published. Then one thing more: twenty minutes, once a month, together. We bring the latest data from your community; you bring what you have noticed, what your people need and what would serve them next. We do the work of building it.
وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَىٰ“And help one another in goodness and in mindfulness of Allah.”Al-Maʾidah 5:2
We hold this work as an amanah, a trust, and treat it as a collective duty, a farḍ kifāyah: when some carry it, it is carried for all, and those who carry it share in its reward. The monthly review is how a partner carries it with us. Think on it through the month; give us twenty minutes of what you see; and let us work for you, and for the cause, on whatever needs to be built.
Principles
How every study is held
- Counts, never namesNo study names a person. A group smaller than five is never shown on its own.
- Nothing without your signatureA study carries a partner’s name only once that partner has signed it.
- Real people onlyTest accounts, robots and automated visits are left out, and the method says how.
- Models labeled as modelsAnything projected is marked as an illustration, never presented as a finding.
- The Qur’an and the Sunnah beside the dataEvery study is read against our tradition, with its sources cited.
- Value that stays homeWhat a study finds is your community’s first, to use for your own people.
Application for research partners
Propose a study.
Tell us about your community or event and what you would like to learn about your people. We read every proposal ourselves, and we reply to each one.