Palau

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

Palau faces profound systemic risks:
Climate-driven sea-level rise and coastal erosion, extreme weather events, biodiversity loss affecting coral reefs and marine ecosystems, food and water security vulnerabilities, and infrastructure resilience challenges.
These risks are directly aligned with the foresight priorities outlined in the Pact for the Future, demanding sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While Palau leads globally in ocean governance, climate advocacy, and sustainable development initiatives among Small Island Developing States (SIDS), strategic opportunities remain to strengthen systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance mechanisms, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

The National Working Group for Palau (NWG–Palau) addresses these strategic needs by:

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

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

• Mobilizing expertise from ministries, scientific research centers, indigenous communities, innovation ecosystems, and diaspora networks;

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

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

• Provides disaster risk modeling, anticipatory policy simulation environments, innovation ecosystem foresight mapping, and sustainable development monitoring tools;

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

• Supports the evolution of holistic resilience, sustainability, and inclusive well-being indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, reinforcing Palau’s leadership in future-ready sustainable governance.

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

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Palau 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–Palau’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing frameworks, anticipatory governance hubs, and sovereign digital innovation ecosystems;

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

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG–Palau and NE outputs into global disaster risk dashboards, anticipatory governance networks, innovation ecosystems, and Pact for the Future foresight monitoring mechanisms.

The systemic resilience challenges facing Palau and other SIDS nations demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Palau and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, scalable, and future-ready pathway for systemic foresight, sustainable innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance futures.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational goals 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 development for Palau.

Respectfully submitted,