GCRI enables building and institutionalizing a network of relationships among diverse actors and nurturing their commitment for systemic solutions to the complex environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges. We aim at increasing economic prosperity and social justice through open collaboration within planetary boundaries.
The GCRI's Partnership Committee has the oversight of the GCRI institutional community development.
The GCRI's institutional initiatives are made up of working groups, bespoke workshops and trainings, and collaborative projects and services designed to facilitate green transition and the sharing of experiences between institutions and members of the local communities. Partnership Committee guides the future development of city services, technology and also a variety of non-technical topics for the GCRI community.
The GCRI's institutional initiatives brings together leaders from local centres, member organizations, public institutions, commercial entities and industrial sectors. GCRI provide an effective framework for institutional forums to share information and best practices and to discuss possible innovations, funding, and further development of novel services.
Our journey begins with co-creating semi-autonomous research units to study specific objectives. We help cities mix skills and approaches to build competence cells for city innovation
Support shifting to knowledge-enabled responsible productivity. Up-skill your citizens by embedding auxiliary education streams across public spaces and empower local communities
Bring circularity into city culture. Our teams help cities channel expertise, technology, and financing for becoming more responsible, efficient and carbon neutral
Our experts help cities build next-gen operational analytics by combining internal and external data for city intelligence, performance management, simulations, and public goods
Competence cells co-create sustainable solutions and use the collective intelligence of local community to cope with complex environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges
Our teams help accelerating your impact strategies. GCRI's peer-to-peer service hub take a 360° approach towards impact measurement and reporting process for greater efficiency
Create educational courses or learn from other peers.
Build pool of data, new knowledge, teams and skills.
Join living labs and build open source applications.
Run advocacy and fundraising campaigns for impact.
Publish videos, run video ads, and streaming.
Boost brands with marketing tools and virtual events.
Advisory services to deliver high-quality experience.
Consultancy services to navigate challenging issues.
Training services to personalize yuor discovery process.
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The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
