Cabo Verde

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

Cabo Verde today faces profound and interlinked systemic risks:
Recurring droughts, severe water scarcity, coastal erosion and sea-level rise, biodiversity loss in marine and coastal ecosystems, food security challenges, and economic vulnerability linked to climate-sensitive sectors such as tourism and agriculture.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

Cabo Verde’s leadership in climate adaptation, renewable energy adoption, and sustainable tourism development provides a strategic foundation. However, the intensifying complexity of systemic risks demands strengthened systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital public goods.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into Cabo Verde’s frameworks for climate resilience, food and water security, marine biodiversity protection, energy transition, and sustainable development;

• 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, environmental and energy agencies, agricultural institutions, tourism governance bodies, renewable energy innovators, private sector leaders, and civil society networks;

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

NWG–Cabo Verde’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 development of holistic resilience, sustainability, and well-being indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, reinforcing Cabo Verde’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

Together, NWG–Cabo Verde and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Cabo Verde 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–Cabo Verde 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–Cabo Verde’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing frameworks, anticipatory governance hubs, and sovereign digital public goods initiatives;

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

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Cabo Verde 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 Cabo Verde and the broader Atlantic and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) regions demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Cabo Verde 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 Cabo Verde.

Respectfully submitted,