Namibia

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

Namibia today faces significant and interconnected systemic risks:
Desertification and droughts, water scarcity, climate-driven biodiversity loss, food security pressures, energy transition imperatives, and digital infrastructure challenges.
These systemic vulnerabilities are closely aligned with the foresight challenges outlined in the Pact for the Future, requiring sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Namibia is advancing national efforts on climate resilience, sustainable land management, biodiversity conservation, and digital transformation, critical opportunities exist to strengthen systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

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

• Embedding systemic foresight, disaster risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation into national, regional, and community development frameworks;

• 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, indigenous governance structures, scientific institutions, innovation ecosystems, and diaspora networks;

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

NWG–Namibia’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 mapping, and resilience monitoring infrastructures;

• Embeds responsible digital governance standards, cybersecurity resilience frameworks, sovereign data protections, and AI ethics aligned with the Global Digital Compact;

• Supports the development of holistic resilience, well-being, and sustainable development indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, reinforcing Namibia’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

Together, NWG–Namibia and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Namibia 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–Namibia 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–Namibia’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 critical for Namibia’s disaster risk intelligence systems, anticipatory policy simulation infrastructures, innovation ecosystem monitoring, and sustainable development governance frameworks;

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

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational objectives 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 Namibia.

Respectfully submitted,