Côte d’Ivoire

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 Côte d'Ivoire (NWG–Côte d'Ivoire) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

Côte d'Ivoire today faces interconnected systemic risks:
Coastal erosion, urban flooding, drought-related agricultural challenges, rapid urbanization, food and water insecurity, biodiversity loss, and energy transition pressures.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight priorities outlined in the Pact for the Future, necessitating sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Côte d'Ivoire has made significant strides in climate action, agricultural modernization, and economic development, further opportunities exist to embed systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital public goods systems.

The National Working Group for Côte d'Ivoire (NWG–Côte d'Ivoire) addresses these systemic needs by:

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national resilience, coastal protection, food security, and biodiversity conservation 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, research and innovation networks, agricultural and coastal development agencies, private sector leaders, and civil society organizations;

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

NWG–Côte d'Ivoire’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 governance monitoring tools;

• 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 Côte d'Ivoire’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

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

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

The systemic resilience and sustainable development challenges facing Côte d'Ivoire and the broader West African region demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Côte d'Ivoire 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 Côte d'Ivoire.

Respectfully submitted,