Global Risks Forum 2025
Open Innovation for Digital Public Goods

Global Risks Alliance

The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) is a pioneering initiative designed to address the most complex challenges facing humanity—ranging from natural disasters and public-health crises to climate-related financial risks and systemic market disruptions. By combining advanced technology, strategic governance, and collaborative partnerships across 100+ countries, GRA fosters a framework where governments, corporations, NGOs, academic institutions, and civil society actors can unite to create a safer, more resilient world. Join the Global Risks Alliance—where multilateral partnerships, innovative finance, and cutting-edge technology converge to protect people, ecosystems, and economies worldwide. Together, we move beyond reactive crisis management toward anticipatory action, ensuring a safer, more resilient, and prosperous future for all

The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) is a multistakeholder consortium designed to tackle systemic threats—ranging from catastrophic climate events to cross-border financial instabilities—through open-source innovation and shared digital infrastructures. Built on high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning, geospatial analytics, and finance frameworks, GRA enables governments, corporations, research institutions, and civil society to collaboratively engineer and maintain solutions that anticipate, mitigate, and finance responses to emergent crises.

By emphasizing open-source licensing and a peer-driven governance model, GRA aims to aggregate cutting-edge expertise—climate science, advanced AI/ML modeling, HPC resource provisioning, quantum-ready simulations—into a trusted public good. This ensures that both well-resourced and under-resourced stakeholders can deploy robust solutions effectively, particularly in scenarios where timing and scale can mean the difference between resilience and collapse.

GRA’s membership spans the quintuple helix:

  • Government Agencies & Sovereign Ministries: Overseeing national HPC clusters, hydrometeorological agencies, public risk funds, or strategic innovation boards.
  • Academic & Research Networks: University labs focusing on quantum computing, complex systems modeling, or advanced Earth observation analytics.
  • Finance & Insurance Sector: Banks, insurers, reinsurers, and fintech platforms interested in real-time risk securitization, parametric instruments, or climate-linked bonds.
  • Tech & Cloud Providers: HPC ecosystem players, AI research startups, or container orchestration specialists—key enablers for large-scale data processing and distributed computing.
  • NGOs, CSOs & Indigenous Networks: Ground-level knowledge, local risk intelligence, and cultural insights essential for building equitable, context-specific solutions.

Confronting climate extremes, pandemics, or large-scale cyber vulnerabilities requires cross-pollination of data, expertise, and practical deployment capabilities. Absent this synergy, partial solutions can fail under real-world pressure—especially in uncertain, compounding scenarios (e.g., a climate-triggered food crisis amid financial turmoil).

Traditional proprietary platforms often impose restrictions, limiting code transparency, data interchange, or integration with domain-specific models. By contrast, GRA’s open-source ethos enables:

  1. Interoperable Software & Data Pipelines: Modules can be rapidly adapted, forked, or merged into HPC and multi-cloud environments, ensuring synergy with specialized Earth observation (EO) feeds, remote sensing data, or advanced AI pipelines.
  2. Enhanced Validation & Peer Review: Global experts—data scientists, risk modelers, parametric finance specialists—can contribute code reviews, benchmark tests, or domain-specific calibrations, leading to iterative and validated improvements.
  3. Lower Entry Barriers for Innovation: Researchers or start-ups lacking major capital can still leverage HPC frameworks, AI libraries, and advanced parametric finance prototypes, building on top of proven architectures without paying steep licensing fees.

This community-driven collaboration model accelerates R&D cycles and fosters an environment where domain expertise from meteorology, epidemiology, quantum computing, finance, and beyond can coalesce for maximal impact.

Although GRA’s core solutions are openly licensed, members gain critical advantages in shaping, deploying, and scaling these tools:

  1. Influencing Development Roadmaps: Members can request specialized features (e.g., HPC optimization, parametric triggers for cross-border flood management) or domain-specific modules (e.g., supply chain disruption models).
  2. Pre-Release Access & Pilot Support: Early engagement in new code commits, HPC environment testing, and scenario calibration ensures members move first in applying breakthroughs to real-world challenges (e.g., monsoon flood forecasting, pandemic-level hospital resource management).
  3. Direct Collaboration with Expert Working Groups: Dedicated subcommittees on HPC, parametric finance, AI governance, or quantum simulation convene frequently for code merges, best-practice guidelines, and advanced debugging.
  4. Networking & Policy Influence: Members participate in the Global Risks Forum (GRF), forging alliances with key regulators, sovereign funds, international agencies, and philanthropic bodies. This high-level collaboration can expedite adoption of cross-border solutions.

Thus, membership places institutions at the epicenter of co-creation and agile deployment, ensuring that open innovation also yields strategic leadership and direct returns on involvement.

Given the escalating volatility of modern crises, GRA’s operational framework is designed for rapid response:

  1. Consortium-Funded Core: Annual contributions and in-kind resource pledges (e.g., HPC capacity, cloud credits, or specialized ML developer hours) ensure baseline stability for code maintenance and emergency expansions.
  2. Emergency Pools & Grant Partnerships: GRA actively partners with philanthropic funds, multilateral development banks, or humanitarian-focused donors to set up short-cycle grants for immediate HPC expansions, parametric finance triggers, or AI-based anomaly detection.
  3. Real-Time Collaboration Channels: Slack or Git-based concurrency for distributed teams, allowing instant merges, code reviews, and data ingestion during, for example, a fast-moving viral outbreak or flash-flood scenario.
  4. Accelerated Deployment Pipelines: Containerized microservices and robust CI/CD protocols that reduce downtime between a validated feature push and full-scale deployment across multiple HPC clusters.

The GRA structure ensures that urgent HPC tasks—like verifying meteorological data for a parametric drought bond or scaling a predictive analytics service—can happen in hours rather than weeks.

GRA targets risk-critical domains that require advanced modeling, real-time analytics, or sophisticated financial tools:

  1. AI-Based Early Warning Systems: HPC-driven ML frameworks for storm intensification forecasts, disease outbreak detection, or multi-hazard alerts.
  2. Parametric Finance & Automated Disbursement: Smart-contract-based solutions for catastrophe bonds, microinsurance, or climate-linked sovereign debt instruments.
  3. Geospatial & EO-Driven Data Pipelines: Comprehensive integration of satellite imagery, LiDAR, UAV data, or ground-sensor feeds into HPC clusters for hazard mapping.
  4. Quantum-Ready Risk Simulations: Exploratory projects examining how quantum computing can accelerate scenario modeling for complex, high-dimensional risk factors.
  5. Distributed HPC & Edge Intelligence: Combining local sensor networks with cloud HPC orchestration for immediate anomaly detection and resource mobilization in remote or underserviced regions.

These high-impact tracks align with rapidly evolving risk landscapes, where advanced modeling and financial readiness are mission-critical.

Members can integrate deeply by:

  1. Pull Requests on Core Repositories: Submitting new AI routines for HPC, optimized data ingestion scripts, or domain-specific calibration (e.g., wildfire spread modeling).
  2. Code Audits & Load Testing: Stress-testing HPC pipelines to ensure elasticity under extreme computational demands—vital for climate or epidemiological simulations.
  3. Risk Finance Pilots: Working with GRA’s finance working group to refine triggers, incorporate new data oracles, or adapt risk thresholds for novel contexts like geo-hazard insurance or coastal resilience.
  4. Governance & Policy Engagement: Proposing data exchange standards, risk ontologies, or AI ethics guidelines to elevate transparency and accountability across all code merges.

Through these channels, technical experts, data custodians, and strategic decision-makers shape the codebase, resulting in best-fit applications for on-the-ground realities.

Preserving robustness, transparency, and trust is central to GRA’s governance:

  • Consensus-Based Code Review: Merge requests require sign-off from domain experts, HPC architects, and designated maintainers.
  • Security & Privacy Protocols: Partnerships with cryptographers and cybersecurity specialists maintain a zero-trust framework for HPC interconnections, data ingestion, and parametric contract execution.
  • Dedicated Crisis Oversight Committees: Empowered to authorize urgent merges or HPC expansions, preventing bureaucratic delays during acute floods, severe storms, or emerging pathogens.
  • Annual Audits & Benchmarking: Expert evaluations cross-verify code performance under real or simulated high-stress events (e.g., multi-cyclone landfalls or cross-border epidemic surges).

These mechanisms safeguard the high-stakes nature of HPC tasks in an era where code vulnerabilities can directly translate to human or financial loss.

GRA’s model facilitates fast replication and expansion:

  1. Modular Architecture & Containerization: Risk tools are built as microservices with easily replicable container images, enabling consistent performance across HPC clusters or cloud vendors.
  2. Automated Deployment Scripts: Preconfigured tools expedite installation—once proven in a pilot city or region, the same stack can be launched globally in a fraction of the time.
  3. Open Licensing & Minimal Overhead: Freed from paywalled components, organizations of all sizes can adopt solutions rapidly—scalability does not hinge on licensing negotiations or exclusive vendor dependencies.
  4. Global Community of Practice: GRA working groups share success stories, lessons, and step-by-step guides to help new regions replicate or refine tested solutions.

The NE approach ensures timely diffusion of HPC-based forecasting or parametric coverage expansions to any location confronting urgent hazards.

In light of escalating climate shocks, financial turbulence, and emerging health threats, GRA offers a streamlined onboarding process:

  1. Membership Inquiry & Expert Consultation: Outline your domain expertise (AI, HPC, parametric finance, Earth observation) and strategic goals—e.g., flood modeling, energy system resilience, or cross-border risk pooling.
  2. Resource & Contribution Alignment: Identify the HPC capacity, data sets, code, or in-kind developer hours you can allocate—ensuring synergy with GRA’s open-source priorities.
  3. Formal Consortium Agreement: Sign the membership accord, clarifying obligations, voting rights, governance committees, and feasible pilot collaborations.
  4. Immediate Integration: Access GRA’s specialized Slack or Git-based collaboration channels, working group subcommittees, and HPC test environments.
  5. Pilot & Scaling Roadmap: Launch or join a pilot for new AI/ML enhancements, parametric triggers, or HPC expansions, quickly refining solutions for larger-scale rollouts.

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Acceleration

The world is at a critical juncture. Traditional approaches to global risks are no longer sufficient. We stand at the precipice of change. The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) is not merely an alliance; we are the vanguard of a new future, where anticipation trumps reaction, where innovation shatters the chains of outdated thinking, and where global collaboration is the cornerstone of human progress. We declare:

  1. That the future is not a distant horizon, but a present reality we shape with every decision. Our collective Anticipatory Action Protocols are not just strategies; they are the blueprints of tomorrow’s resilience.
  2. That emergencies are not insurmountable obstacles, but opportunities to demonstrate human ingenuity. Our universal Emergency Response is not just swift; it’s transformative, turning crises into catalysts for lasting change.
  3. That our economy must mirror the cyclical perfection of nature. We champion a Circular Economy not as an alternative, but as the only path forward for a planet with finite resources.
  4. That the challenges we face are interconnected, and so must be our solutions. Nexus Governance is not a choice; it’s the imperative that will break down silos and forge holistic answers to complex problems.
  5. That true strength lies not in isolation, but in the bonds between us. Community Resilience is our bulwark against uncertainty, a force that turns vulnerability into collective power.
  6. That we are not separate from our environment, but intrinsically part of it. Planetary Integrity is not an abstract concept, but the vital sign of our shared existence.

We are not waiting for change; we are the change. We call upon innovators, leaders, and citizens of the world to join us in this audacious endeavor. Together, we will rewrite the rules of engagement with our planet and with each other

Anticipatory Action
We spearhead revolutionary Anticipatory Action Protocols, fusing advanced predictive analytics with strategic foresight to defuse global risks before they ignite. Our approach, deeply rooted in the ECT, catalyzes proactive global synergies and embeds sustainable practices across all sectors. By orchestrating a powerful confluence of climate science, forecast-based financing (FbF), and avant-garde competence development streams, we equip decision-makers with the tools to safeguard planetary integrity and elevate human wellbeing on an unprecedented global scale
Emergency Response
Our Emergency Response Network deploys lightning-fast, precision-engineered interventions in times of crisis, leveraging exponential technology and zero-trust risk assessments. Through our global network of competence cells, we fortify and revolutionize risk, security, and sustainability standards, dramatically enhancing systems resilience. Our interventions, powered by systemic anticipatory action planning, not only address immediate urgencies but also lay the groundwork for long-term recovery and stability, setting new benchmarks in effective and sustainable crisis management
Circular Economy
GCRI leads the vanguard in Circular Economy innovation, integrating the groundbreaking Micro-production Model (MPM) to radically minimize waste and maximize resource efficiency. By localizing production and dismantling reliance on monolithic industrial processes, MPM supercharges our strategies, which are already turbocharged by anticipatory action planning and Nexus Governance. This powerful synergy ensures our economic activities not only catalyze positive environmental stewardship and fortify planetary integrity but also sculpt a resilient, hyper-adaptable economic system that's primed to thrive amidst global challenges
Nexus Governance
At GCRI's operational core, Nexus Governance applies ECT principles with surgical precision to foster integrated management of critical resources. Our framework ignites systemic thinking and forges collaborative solutions that tackle the intricate web of challenges posed by global environmental flux. This approach guarantees that every action reverberates positively through the ecosystem of global biodiversity and services, driving holistic, high-impact solutions to the world's most complex issues
Community Resilience
GCRI's state-of-the-art civic infrastructure, powered by national working groups (NWGs) and nexus competence cells (NCCs), is built on the bedrock of anticipatory action and Nexus Governance. We forge iron-clad partnerships with communities worldwide, cultivating unshakeable resilience against ecological and socio-economic turbulence. By weaving local wisdom with cutting-edge global innovations, we exponentially boost community capacity to not just face but conquer future challenges, ensuring our resilience-building strategies are inclusive and lock-step with the ECT's visionary sustainable development blueprint
Planetary Integrity
Our unwavering commitment to Planetary Integrity is the lifeblood of GCRI, deeply infused with ECT principles. We champion the stewardship of planetary commons and safeguard biodiversity and ecosystem services. By seamlessly integrating Earth systems science with our trailblazing anticipatory humanitarian action protocols under the aegis of our planetary nexus governance paradigm, we don't just predict environmental changes – we shape them. This holistic framework not only neutralizes immediate crises through laser-focused, preemptive measures but also spearheads a cohesive, global environmental management strategy. In doing so, we cement our position as vanguards of planetary stewardship, fortifying the future of our planet with unparalleled resolve and foresight
Nexus Platforms

Embrace the Future of Work

As organizations worldwide scramble to address increasingly complex, multi-hazard risks—spanning climate extremes, cyber threats, and financial contagions—exponential technologies provide unmatched potential to predict, mitigate, and finance resilience. However, harnessing these technologies requires coordinated governance, robust RRI, and scalable platform models. The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) responds to these needs by offering a multi-tier consortium that unites technical ingenuity, cross-sector financing, and universal risk intelligence under a single, open framework

Features

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R&D labs, specialized civic tech teams, or emerging private-sector risk analytics innovators seeking entry-level HPC/AI integration

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Full Member

Established mid- to large-scale enterprises, philanthropic funds, or national agencies requiring advanced HPC capacities, multi-hazard intelligence, and parametric finance expansions

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Founding Member

Sovereigns, development banks, major philanthropic alliances, or global-scale private enterprises investing in HPC, parametric finance, and quantum-based risk modeling as part of national or international resilience strategies

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Distributed Ledger for Supply Chain Resilience

10 pCredits

Create a blockchain-based solution that enhances the traceability and transparency of critical supply chains, ensuring continuity and integrity in times of crisis. The platform should conform to global supply chain standards and frameworks, such as GS1 standards for product identification and ISO 28000 for supply chain security.

Disruptions in supply chains during emergencies can lead to severe economic and humanitarian consequences. A blockchain-powered approach can provide real-time visibility into supply chain transactions, improve accountability, and facilitate rapid response. By integrating globally recognized standards, such as GS1’s EPCIS (Electronic Product Code Information Services) and ISO 22095 chain-of-custody requirements, this solution ensures a secure, interoperable environment. Trusted oracles and industry-grade blockchain networks (e.g., Hyperledger, Ethereum) will provide the foundational infrastructure.

This bounty focuses on developing a blockchain-based platform that delivers secure, verifiable, and standards-compliant supply chain transparency. By following international frameworks and providing a clear audit trail of transactions, the solution will improve resilience, reduce waste, and help ensure the timely delivery of critical goods during disruptions. Comprehensive implementation documentation and open-source smart contract libraries will make the system accessible and scalable.

Target Outcomes:

  • A blockchain prototype that integrates GS1 and ISO 28000 standards.
  • Demonstrable improvements in supply chain visibility and responsiveness.
  • Open-source smart contracts and deployment guidelines.
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Data Pipeline Hygiene in DRR & DRF

10 pCredits

A stable data pipeline underpins advanced analytics, from multi-regional flood forecasting to parametric pay-out triggers. This Quest calls for systematically auditing a pipeline segment, focusing on naming integrity, duplication, or undocumented fields. Contributors also produce disclaimers for data sets that might be restricted, incomplete, or subject to local privacy laws.

Key Outputs
  1. Pipeline Integrity Report: Summarizing discovered anomalies (duplicates, stale references) plus recommended fixes
  2. Proposed Merge/Pull Request: Updating naming conventions, field dictionaries, or script routines
  3. RRI Clause: Identifying sensitive or proprietary data sets that require disclaimers or restricted usage

Blockchain-Based Disaster Relief Payout Protocol

10 pCredits

Design and implement a blockchain-enabled payout system using parametric insurance models and automated smart contracts. This system will streamline disaster relief payouts by adhering to international regulatory frameworks, integrating trusted oracles for real-time data verification, and providing a transparent ledger for all transactions.

Traditional disaster relief funding often suffers from inefficiencies, lack of transparency, and prolonged distribution times. A blockchain-based parametric model—where payouts are triggered by specific, pre-defined criteria (e.g., rainfall thresholds)—can resolve these challenges. This solution will be built on well-established blockchain platforms, such as Ethereum or Hyperledger Fabric, and use smart contract standards like the ERC-20 or ERC-721 for payout tokens. Integration with trusted data oracles (e.g., Chainlink or Provable) ensures that triggers are based on verified, tamper-proof information. This approach will also consider international frameworks for financial inclusion and disaster risk financing, such as those recommended by the World Bank and the Insurance Development Forum (IDF).

The proposed system will include a suite of blockchain-based smart contracts that automate relief fund distribution upon the occurrence of a verified event. Compliance with international financial reporting standards (e.g., IFRS 17 for insurance contracts) and best practices for blockchain security (e.g., OWASP Blockchain Security Framework) will be integral. This ensures that payouts are not only prompt but also fully auditable and secure. The open-source implementation will include smart contract templates, deployment scripts, and a detailed integration guide for humanitarian organizations and insurers

Target Outcomes:

  • A fully functional smart contract framework compliant with ERC standards and integrated with trusted data oracles.
  • A secure and transparent audit trail of all payouts, following established blockchain security standards.
  • A publicly available deployment guide that supports implementation in multiple jurisdictions.
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