Saint Lucia

Excellencies,

We, the undersigned institutions, experts, and stakeholders committed to systemic foresight, responsible innovation, and sustainable governance leadership, respectfully submit this appeal for the formal recognition and institutional support of the National Working Group for Saint Lucia (NWG–Saint Lucia) and the Nexus Ecosystem (NE), developed by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

Saint Lucia today faces systemic and accelerating risks:
Climate-driven hurricanes and sea-level rise, coastal erosion, biodiversity degradation, food and water security pressures, tourism-dependent economy vulnerabilities, and digital infrastructure gaps.
These risks align directly with the foresight challenges articulated in the Pact for the Future, demanding sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-driven resilience frameworks.

While Saint Lucia continues to advance sustainable development, climate adaptation, and blue economy initiatives, opportunities exist to expand disaster foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance systems, and sovereign digital public goods platforms across its national frameworks.

The National Working Group for Saint Lucia (NWG–Saint Lucia) addresses these needs by:

• Embedding disaster foresight, systemic risk governance, and anticipatory policy innovation across national, regional, and community strategies;

• Strengthening early warning systems, dynamic scenario simulation environments, and resilience foresight architectures aligned with the operational principles of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing cross-sectoral expertise from ministries, scientific communities, innovation ecosystems, indigenous knowledge holders, and diaspora networks;

• Institutionalizing intergenerational sustainability and resilience governance frameworks aligned with the Declaration on Future Generations.

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

• Provides disaster risk modeling, policy simulation infrastructures, innovation ecosystem mapping, and sustainability foresight monitoring tools;

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

• Supports the development of holistic resilience, sustainability, and inclusive well-being indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, strengthening Saint Lucia’s leadership among Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Together, NWG–Saint Lucia and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Saint Lucia with sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructures for systemic foresight, sustainable development innovation, and resilient governance futures.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG–Saint Lucia as a national and international platform advancing systemic disaster risk foresight, anticipatory governance innovation, sovereign digital resilience, and future generations stewardship under the Pact for the Future;

2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG–Saint Lucia’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing systems, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good critical for Saint Lucia’s disaster risk intelligence platforms, anticipatory policy simulation infrastructures, innovation ecosystem resilience monitoring, and sustainable development governance;

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

The systemic resilience challenges facing Saint Lucia and other SIDS nations require sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Saint Lucia and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a scalable, transformational pathway to strengthen systemic foresight, sustainable innovation ecosystems, and resilient governance for present and future generations.

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 collective commitment to collaborative action, systemic foresight leadership, responsible digital innovation, and sustainable development for Saint Lucia and the broader international community.

Respectfully submitted,