Iraq

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

Iraq today faces deep and interconnected systemic risks:
Desertification, extreme heat, water scarcity, drought-induced agricultural degradation, flooding, dust storms, energy transition needs, and fragile infrastructure recovery challenges.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight priorities outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Iraq continues to rebuild resilience, strengthen governance, and develop pathways for sustainable energy and agriculture, critical opportunities remain to embed systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance systems, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national resilience, food and water security, and energy transition frameworks;

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

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across ministries, regional authorities, scientific institutions, agricultural innovators, private sector leaders, and civil society networks;

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

NWG–Iraq’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 Iraq’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

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

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

Respectfully submitted,