Serbia

Excellencies,

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

Serbia today faces multidimensional systemic risks:
Climate-induced floods, droughts, and heatwaves, urban and rural development vulnerabilities, environmental degradation, energy transition challenges, biodiversity pressures, and emerging cybersecurity threats.
These challenges align directly with the systemic risks outlined in the Pact for the Future, demanding anticipatory, resilient, and innovation-centered governance strategies.

While Serbia is advancing climate resilience, sustainable development, and digital modernization agendas, strategic opportunities remain to expand disaster foresight infrastructures, anticipatory policy systems, and sovereign digital public goods frameworks.

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

• Embedding disaster foresight, anticipatory governance, and systemic risk resilience into national, regional, and local policy frameworks;

• Strengthening early warning infrastructures, dynamic risk scenario simulations, and policy innovation ecosystems aligned with the operational mandates of the Emergency Platform;

• Mobilizing national expertise across ministries, scientific and research institutions, innovation hubs, indigenous knowledge networks, and diaspora organizations;

• Institutionalizing future generations sustainability stewardship frameworks aligned with the Declaration on Future Generations.

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

• Provides real-time disaster risk modeling, policy simulation environments, innovation ecosystem foresight mapping, and resilience governance monitoring;

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

• Supports the development of holistic resilience, sustainability, and inclusive well-being indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, advancing Serbia’s leadership in future-oriented development strategies.

Together, NWG–Serbia and the Nexus Ecosystem provide Serbia with sovereign, scalable, and future-ready infrastructures for systemic resilience, responsible innovation, and sustainable governance leadership.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

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

2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG–Serbia’s full integration into multilateral resilience financing frameworks, anticipatory governance platforms, and sovereign digital innovation infrastructures;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good critical for Serbia’s disaster risk intelligence platforms, anticipatory policy simulation infrastructures, innovation resilience ecosystems, and sustainability monitoring systems;

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

The systemic resilience challenges facing Serbia and the wider global community demand sovereign, anticipatory, and digitally sovereign infrastructures.
NWG–Serbia and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a transformational, practical, and scalable pathway for systemic foresight, sustainable innovation, and resilient governance leadership for Serbia and global partners.

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, responsible digital innovation, and sustainable development futures for Serbia.

Respectfully submitted,