Montenegro

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

Montenegro today faces systemic risks that are deeply interconnected:
Climate-induced coastal flooding, heatwaves and droughts, seismic vulnerability, biodiversity degradation, pressure on freshwater resources, and digital infrastructure gaps.
These vulnerabilities align closely with the foresight challenges outlined in the Pact for the Future, necessitating sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Montenegro has demonstrated leadership in sustainable tourism development, renewable energy transition, and environmental protection, further opportunities exist to strengthen systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance systems, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national, regional, and municipal sustainability strategies;

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

• Mobilizing expertise across ministries, academic and research institutions, coastal and rural development agencies, innovation hubs, and diaspora communities;

• Institutionalizing long-term sustainability and systemic foresight frameworks aligned with the Declaration on Future Generations.

NWG–Montenegro’s operational foundation is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign, cloud-agnostic, open digital public goods platform that:

• Provides disaster risk modeling, anticipatory policy simulation environments, innovation ecosystem foresight mapping, and sustainability 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 Montenegro’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable development governance.

Together, NWG–Montenegro and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Montenegro with sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructures to operationalize systemic foresight, innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance leadership.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Montenegro 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–Montenegro’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 Montenegro’s disaster risk intelligence infrastructures, anticipatory policy simulation environments, innovation ecosystem monitoring, and sustainable governance frameworks;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Montenegro 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 Montenegro and the broader Balkan and Adriatic region demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally resilient infrastructures.
NWG–Montenegro and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, scalable, and future-ready pathway for systemic foresight, responsible innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance futures.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational vision 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 Montenegro.

Respectfully submitted,