Nauru

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 Nauru (NWG–Nauru) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

Nauru today faces profound and interconnected systemic risks:
Sea-level rise, freshwater scarcity, extreme weather events, food insecurity, environmental degradation, and digital connectivity gaps.
These systemic vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight challenges outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Nauru is advancing national initiatives to strengthen climate resilience, sustainable development, and disaster preparedness, strategic opportunities remain to embed systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance models, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national, island-level, and community development strategies;

• Strengthening early warning systems, dynamic risk scenario simulation platforms, and systemic resilience governance architectures aligned with the operational principles of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing distributed expertise from ministries, community leaders, scientific and innovation institutions, indigenous knowledge systems, and diaspora networks;

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

NWG–Nauru’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 environments, innovation ecosystem foresight mapping, and resilience governance monitoring tools;

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

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

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

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Nauru 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–Nauru’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 critical for Nauru’s disaster risk intelligence infrastructures, anticipatory policy simulation platforms, innovation ecosystem monitoring, and sustainable governance frameworks;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Nauru 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 Nauru and the wider Pacific region require sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Nauru and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, scalable, and future-ready pathway for systemic foresight, responsible innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance futures.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational goals 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 Nauru.

Respectfully submitted,