United States

Excellencies,

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

The United States today faces increasingly complex systemic risks:
Climate-induced disasters, critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, technological disruption, cybersecurity threats, digital ethics challenges, and regional disparities intensify pressures on social, environmental, and economic stability.
These risks are deeply interconnected with the global systemic threats identified in the Pact for the Future, requiring urgent, anticipatory, foresight-driven action.

While the U.S. has significant disaster risk management and innovation leadership capabilities, there remains a strategic gap in fully integrated, anticipatory, and policy-driven risk foresight infrastructures at national and decentralized levels.

The National Working Group for the United States (NWG-USA) addresses this gap by:

• Embedding systemic foresight, anticipatory risk governance, and disaster intelligence systems across national, regional, and local governance structures;

• Strengthening multi-hazard early warning systems, risk scenario simulations, and policy innovation processes aligned with the Emergency Platform operational principles;

• Mobilizing distributed expertise across federal, state, and local governments, universities, indigenous nations, private sector actors, diaspora communities, and civic technology networks;

• Institutionalizing intergenerational governance approaches aligned with the Declaration on Future Generations.

NWG-USA's operational foundation is the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) — a sovereign-grade, cloud-agnostic, open-access digital public goods platform that:

• Provides real-time disaster risk modeling, policy simulation capabilities, innovation ecosystem mapping, and resilience performance monitoring;

• Embeds responsible digital cooperation principles consistent with the Global Digital Compact, advancing data transparency, AI ethics, and digital sovereignty;

• Supports the development of Beyond GDP resilience metrics, integrating well-being, environmental stewardship, innovation readiness, and democratic sustainability.

Together, NWG-USA and NE enable the United States to translate the systemic resilience commitments of the Pact for the Future into operational, inclusive, and future-proof national infrastructures.

Accordingly, we respectfully request:

1. Formal Recognition of NWG-USA as a critical national platform advancing systemic disaster risk governance, anticipatory innovation governance, digital ethics, and future generation protection under the Pact for the Future;

2. Institutional and Financial Support, enabling NWG-USA to expand through national resilience grants, digital public infrastructure investments, and multilateral innovation partnerships;

3. Recognition of the Nexus Ecosystem (NE) as a sovereign digital public good essential to the United States’ disaster intelligence, anticipatory governance, policy simulation, and responsible innovation ecosystems;

4. Framework Integration, ensuring systematic inclusion of NWG-USA and NE outputs into global disaster risk dashboards, early warning systems, policy innovation platforms, and Pact for the Future implementation infrastructures.

The systemic risks confronting the United States demand foresight-enabled, integrated, and digitally sovereign solutions.
NWG-USA and the Nexus Ecosystem offer a tangible, scalable pathway to enhance resilience, foster sustainable innovation, and safeguard the rights, well-being, and dignity of present and future generations.

In full alignment with the Charter of the United Nations and the transformational mandates of the Pact for the Future, we submit this appeal and reaffirm our commitment to collaborative action, systemic foresight, responsible digital innovation, and inclusive risk governance.

Respectfully submitted,