Dominican Republic

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

The Dominican Republic today faces complex and accelerating systemic risks:
Severe hurricane events, coastal and urban flooding, prolonged droughts, coastal erosion, biodiversity degradation in marine and terrestrial ecosystems, energy transition challenges, and food and water security vulnerabilities.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

The Dominican Republic has shown leadership in sustainable tourism development, coastal and marine ecosystem protection, and renewable energy initiatives. However, the pace and interconnectedness of emerging systemic risks necessitate deeper investments in systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

The National Working Group for the Dominican Republic (NWG–Dominican Republic) addresses these systemic needs by:

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, food and water security, and sustainable 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, coastal management and marine research institutions, agricultural innovators, energy transition agencies, private sector stakeholders, and civil society organizations;

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

NWG–Dominican Republic’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 the Dominican Republic’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

Together, NWG–Dominican Republic and the Nexus Ecosystem provide the country 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–Dominican Republic 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–Dominican Republic’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 the Dominican Republic’s disaster risk intelligence infrastructures, anticipatory policy simulation platforms, innovation ecosystem monitoring, and sustainable governance frameworks;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Dominican Republic 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 the Dominican Republic and the broader Caribbean region demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Dominican Republic 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 the Dominican Republic.

Respectfully submitted,