Kosovo

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

Kosovo today faces profound and interconnected systemic risks:
Floods and droughts, seismic vulnerabilities, climate-driven extreme weather events, energy transition challenges, environmental degradation of forests and rivers, urbanization pressures, and digital development needs.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Kosovo continues to advance important initiatives in environmental protection, disaster risk management, renewable energy, and digital governance, critical opportunities remain to embed systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance systems, and sovereign digital public goods platforms.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national and municipal sustainability 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, scientific institutions, local authorities, innovation hubs, private sector leaders, and civil society organizations;

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

NWG–Kosovo’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 environments, 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 Kosovo’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

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

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

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

Respectfully submitted,