South Korea

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

South Korea today faces complex and interconnected systemic risks:
Heatwaves, urban and coastal flooding, sea-level rise, air pollution, aging infrastructure risks, energy transition challenges, and cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
These vulnerabilities align directly with the foresight imperatives outlined in the Pact for the Future, necessitating sovereign, anticipatory, and innovation-centered resilience strategies.

While South Korea continues to lead in technological innovation, smart infrastructure development, and global climate action, additional opportunities exist to embed systemic foresight infrastructures, anticipatory governance systems, and sovereign digital public goods ecosystems.

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

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

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

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across ministries, innovation ecosystems, technological institutes, environmental organizations, and private sector networks;

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

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

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

• 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, sustainability, and well-being indicators aligned with the Beyond GDP Initiative, reinforcing South Korea’s leadership in systemic foresight and sustainable governance.

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

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

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

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

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational ambitions 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 South Korea.

Respectfully submitted,