• Increase financial Inclusion and equity
• Make innovation open to anyone, anywhere
• Increase the power of small and developing states to create sustainable impacts
• Increase global and local accountability, and inclusivity
• Co-design, test and refine governance protocols and policy frameworks
• Improve the legitimacy of global governance and policy development
• Provide a global vision and ambition for science, research and innovation

That said, he challenges and opportunities of the century are global in scope, have cross-industry impact and require multistakeholder cooperation. Understanding that the world must act now to ensure that emerging technologies will help – and not harm – humankind in the future, the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) is co-designing and piloting development roadmaps, policy frameworks, and governance protocols across eight areas of focus:

• Smart City
• Cybersecurity
• Energy
• Data
• Blockchain
• Automation
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Space

While continuing to develop and expand our capacity development, professional courses and training programmes, we are also conducting cutting-edge research into technology and policy.

If you are interested in helping or getting involved, please support us, join the debate on our online community, or join discussion on our blog.

We are on a path to become a fully decentralized platform. This means that as a member-run community, the GCRI has distributed mechanisms and processes in place that effectively enable an organization-wide control function to operate without (necessarily) relying on a managerial hierarchy and cascades of authority.

This decentralized authority must not be limited or generally conditioned by the power of a direct superior. However, there is system-level requirements that any role must meet, as well as reporting and notification requirements. These controls are operationalised in the form of:

• self-control based on clear guidance of what and how to observe;

• mutual or peer-based control that is clearly limited in its purpose or scope;

• input controls, e.g., in the form of member selection or standardization of tools and working methods;

• output controls, like performance indicators or criteria-based evaluations.

Good governance within the GCRI cannot rely on a unified chain of command and bosses and middle managers overseeing, controlling, and correcting their subordinates along central guidelines. In the absence of a unified chain of command of managerial hierarchy, GCRI committees and their outputs are governed in a bottom-up way based on GCRI’s coin system and voting structures. The voting mechanism includes democratic elements, representative elements, and consultative elements.

The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) is a nonpartisan independent fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven science research initiatives around the world. We do not take policy positions. 

We originated in a research collective project created in 2016 at World Social Forum. The project conducted regular polls on innovation and major policy issues while designing a consensus and governance mechanism for what you see today. In 2018, The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) incorporated as an independent R&D institute in Canada with active local communities across all continents. 

To become a global community to build the new future. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)’s vision is to be the premiere industry-university-policy alliance dedicated to developing innovative solutions for sustainable development. We will serve the needs of our partners by establishing the needed knowledge base, developing innovative technologies, and by educating future leaders.

Our mission is to inspire and enable people from all backgrounds and experiences to engage and contribute to research and development and show that innovation is for everyone. We will nurture the whole system of innovation that will improve lives, services and businesses around the globe – creating a fairer, healthier, more prosperous and more sustainable and resilient society.

World-class research and dynamic innovation are part of an interconnected system; they depend on talented people and teams working in a supportive and diverse culture across multiple sectors, with access to the right funding, infrastructure, data and connections – locally, nationally, internationally – to do their best work. We will examine how this system is working across government, academia, universities, research institutes and technology organisations, businesses, charities, domestic and international investors, global networks and partners.

Our work acknowledges that the same innovative technologies and sociotechnical practices that are reconfiguring society – enabling novel modes of interaction, new opportunities for knowledge, and disruptive business practices and paradigms – can be abused to invade privacy, provide new tools of discrimination, and harm individuals and communities. 

This Roadmap goes on to set out our ambitions for tackling these problems. We are starting from a position of great strength and see this as the start of a big conversation on what actions need to be taken and how:

1. Increase investment opportunities in research, unlocking new discoveries and applying research to problems in government, industry and across society. 
2. Become a global centre at securing the economic and social benefits from research and innovation
3. Support entrepreneurs and start-ups and increase the flow of capital into sustainable innovation
4. Attract, retain and develop the talented, diverse people and teams that are essential to delivering our vision
5. Provide long-term sustainable investment solutions into industry, infrastructure and institutions
6. Create global-leading research and innovation hub, as well as strengthening R&D partnerships with emerging and developing countries