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Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan
Environment in Talas District, Talas Region, KG
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National Working Groups (NWGs), established by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) in over 120 countries, provide structured, inclusive platforms for advancing disaster risk reduction (DRR), innovation acceleration, and systemic resilience-building.

In Kyrgyzstan, the NWG strengthens national resilience by:

  • Localizing disaster risk foresight frameworks and operationalizing Kyrgyzstan’s climate adaptation, food and water security, and rural development strategies aligned with the Pact for the Future;
  • Enabling early warning systems, anticipatory governance, and innovation-driven systemic resilience to address vulnerabilities linked to glacier retreat, droughts, floods, seismic risks, rural development challenges, and energy transition pressures;
  • Uniting ministries, agricultural cooperatives, scientific institutions, innovation hubs, private sector leaders, civil society organizations, and diaspora expertise into a national resilience and policy innovation ecosystem;
  • Serving as a nexus of policy, research, and innovation to strengthen disaster risk governance, sustainable resource management, and systemic foresight.

The Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by GCRI, underpins NWG operations by providing a sovereign-grade, open, and interoperable digital public goods infrastructure.
NE empowers Kyrgyzstan to deploy disaster risk modeling platforms, anticipatory policy simulation environments, innovation ecosystem foresight tools, and sustainability governance monitoring systems.

Together, NWG–Kyrgyzstan and NE form sovereign critical infrastructures for disaster risk governance, systemic foresight, responsible digital innovation, and sustainable development.

We call upon the Government of Kyrgyzstan, United Nations agencies, multilateral institutions, and global partners to formally recognize, support, and resource NWG–Kyrgyzstan and the Nexus Ecosystem as essential infrastructures for systemic resilience, sustainable innovation, and anticipatory governance.

Support NWG–Kyrgyzstan. Advance Risk-Informed Policy Innovation. Secure Digital Public Goods for Systemic Resilience.

March 8, 2024

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Letter to
Secretary-General of United Nations, António Guterres

Excellencies,

We, the undersigned institutions, experts, and stakeholders committed to systemic foresight, responsible innovation, and sustainable resilience governance, respectfully submit this appeal for the formal recognition and institutional support of the National Working Group for Kyrgyzstan (NWG–Kyrgyzstan) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

Kyrgyzstan today faces complex and interconnected systemic risks:
Glacier retreat and water scarcity, floods and droughts, seismic risks, food insecurity pressures, rural development needs, and emerging digital transformation challenges.
These vulnerabilities align closely with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Kyrgyzstan advances critical initiatives in disaster risk management, agricultural sustainability, water governance, and energy transition, additional opportunities exist to strengthen systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance capabilities, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

The National Working Group for Kyrgyzstan (NWG–Kyrgyzstan) addresses these systemic needs by:

  • Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national, rural, and sectoral development frameworks;

  • Strengthening early warning systems, dynamic risk scenario simulation infrastructures, and systemic foresight architectures aligned with the operational mandates of the Emergency Platform;

  • Mobilizing distributed expertise across ministries, rural networks, academic and research institutions, innovation hubs, private sector leaders, and civil society organizations;

  • Institutionalizing sustainability and systemic foresight governance frameworks aligned with the Declaration on Future Generations.

NWG–Kyrgyzstan’s operational foundation is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign, cloud-agnostic, open-access digital public goods platform that:

  • Provides disaster risk modeling, anticipatory policy simulation infrastructures, innovation ecosystem foresight mapping, and sustainable development governance monitoring systems;

  • Embeds responsible digital governance standards, cybersecurity resilience protocols, sovereign data protections, and AI ethics aligned with the Global Digital Compact;

  • Supports the evolution of holistic resilience, sustainability, and well-being indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, reinforcing Kyrgyzstan’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

Together, NWG–Kyrgyzstan and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Kyrgyzstan with sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructures to operationalize systemic foresight, sustainable innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

  1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Kyrgyzstan as a national and international platform advancing systemic disaster risk foresight, anticipatory governance innovation, sovereign digital resilience, and sustainable development leadership under the Pact for the Future;

  2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG–Kyrgyzstan’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing frameworks, anticipatory governance hubs, and sovereign digital public goods programs;

  3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good essential for Kyrgyzstan’s disaster risk intelligence infrastructures, anticipatory policy simulation platforms, innovation ecosystem monitoring, and sustainable governance frameworks;

  4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Kyrgyzstan and NE outputs into global disaster risk dashboards, anticipatory governance hubs, innovation ecosystems, and Pact for the Future foresight monitoring mechanisms.

The systemic resilience and sustainable development challenges facing Kyrgyzstan and the broader Central Asian region demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Kyrgyzstan and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, scalable, and future-ready pathway for systemic foresight, responsible innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational ambitions articulated in the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our commitment to collaborative action, systemic foresight leadership, responsible innovation, and sustainable governance for Kyrgyzstan.

Respectfully submitted,

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