Jamaica

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

Jamaica today faces profound and interconnected systemic risks:
Hurricanes, coastal erosion, sea-level rise, floods and landslides, freshwater scarcity, food system vulnerabilities, and green energy transition pressures.
These challenges align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, necessitating sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Jamaica continues to advance leadership in climate action, disaster risk governance, and sustainable tourism and agricultural innovation, additional opportunities exist to strengthen systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital public goods systems.

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

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

• 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, coastal management authorities, agricultural innovators, energy leaders, academic institutions, and civil society organizations;

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

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

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

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

Respectfully submitted,