The United States of America is the fourth largest country in the world (after Russia, Canada, and China). It extends across North America from the Atlantic Ocean on the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west. The United States is made up of 50 states and the District of Columbia. Forty-eight of the states lie between Canada on the north and Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico on the south. The 49th state, Alaska, lies northwest of Canada. The 50th state, Hawaii, is a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
With our partners in the US, we aim to deepen our understanding of the world and ourselves, generating important new knowledge about local history and culture, and facilitates breakthrough discoveries in science and technology.
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) provides an alternative ecosystem that spurs problem-solving, civic leadership, and social innovation. We aim to integrate researchers, community leaders, and civic hackers in collaborative projects and long-term partnerships that enable inclusion, sustainability, and equity.
Fiercely independent and proudly polemical, GCRI offers original reporting, insight, and analysis from scientific communities and grassroots perspectives.
Connecting dots across all levels and branches of the local and global governance, we keep the public informed and empowered to shape other actors’ approaches based on principles of transparency, accountability, and good governance.
We integrate open data into policy stages by providing decision-makers with the required team, techniques, and tools. Our Open Data initiative involves multi-stakeholder participation, global discovery design, and real-time risk analysis. We work through various activities from workshops, hackathons, and an on-going series of seminars and webinars to co-design prototype solutions.
We improve access to R&D opportunities for social impact, especially for marginalized and developing communities. Governments and institutions leverage GCRI’s network to design evaluation frameworks and allocation policies for better, simpler, and faster alternatives. Through integrated and optimized mechanism designs, we significantly improve social welfare and quality of life. Our approach is collaborative and requires a deep understanding of critical topics with appropriate cultural awareness to formulate optimal strategies for efficient, fair, and sustainable solutions.
Working as multidisciplinary teams, our advisors help develop and implement frameworks for the future of science policy and public participation. That is why we work with researchers who have extensive experience working closely with local, regional, and global stakeholders.
Our publishing features are minimal, simple, and fast, focusing on privacy, peer production, and monetization. As you immerse yourself into the ecosystem, you will discover that publishing tools and open media features can help at every stage of your journey. Whether you start brainstorming and team building or polish your impact strategy with assistance from the community, we provide the support you need to publish your stories, ideas, and insight.
We provide a public engagement platform that helps you connect and work with civil society. With GCRI’s Action Platform, public affairs experts, activists, and citizens can run campaigns, track results, drive change, and connect to researchers and decision-makers—all in one place. You can easily save and export contacts while publishing unlimited updates and citations to enrich the cause. Our integrated membership and event system makes it easy to connect with the right stakeholders at the right time for maximum social impact.
Our open course platform provides everything instructors need to build superbly designed online courses. Whether you’re a newbie or an expert entrepreneur, Global Academy makes it a breeze to get up and running with your online courses, lessons, tutorials, webinars, or manuals. You don’t need technical skills to create a beautiful online course easily.
Innovation Lab enables you to quickly test and deploy your idea, and easily integrate it into our existing services. It reduces complexity and time to market while maintaining satisfaction rate, security audits, and acquisition cycles. Innovation Lab helps you with a distributed software development model in which partners collaborate on single solution applications or develop mini-projects that are assembled for a final solution buildout
Meet the developers, designer, scientists, and other experts in related verticals who can help bring your ideas to life. We believe that independent innovators shape our planet’s future. By building tools that help innovators worldwide, we help our partners improve public policy and governance frameworks.
GCRI’s enabling methodologies mediate between solutions and their uptake within specific organizations, geographical locations, or cultural context for optimal ESG results. We work with scientists, political leaders, grassroots activists to field-test our ideas and apply our research in diverse environments. Our researchers focus on international security, prosperity, and justice for all by building tools, prototyping new technologies, creating datasets, working with local leaders, and training government officials.
Nonpartisan research on economic growth and productivity, economic development, and welfare reform. Our core work is to carry out policy-oriented research and analysis focusing on quality of life
Our dedicated ESG and impact investing research team analyze the financial performance of impact investing funds with latest data, trends and insight. Find in-depth expert analysis and economic research to help you make confident impact investing decisions
We focus on technological innovation’s effects on the financial system and economy, and particularly on aspects of interest for central banks and decentralized finance
Our ESG research team is a cross-industry initiative aimed to provide clients with a multi-dimensional analysis of where companies sit on the spectrum of ESG performance and whether markets are incorporating ESG attributes
We publish selection of scholarly databases, data sources, programs, news, and targeted information resources to investigate the overall SDG framework and research international progress of individual Sustainable Development Goals
We focus on corporate social responsibility and international business: examining the nexus and gaps from alternative and critical perspectives
We focus on a complex of related, research-based, instrumental methods which produce change or stability in specific cultural systems through the provision of data, initiation of direct action, and the formulation of policy
We study the application of psychological principles to solve problems of the human experience. Mental health, organizational psychology, business management, education, health, product design, ergonomics, and law are just a few areas of focus
With the focus on the practical side of sociology, we promote beneficial social change. Our social scientists are dedicated to the utilization of sociological methods, concepts, and theories to effect beneficial social change
The field of international relations and comparative politics at GCRI includes training in statistics, econometrics and formal theory; reviewing and developing new methods for the scientific study of international relations, global governance, and democratic institutions
We aim to identify, explore and nurture intellectual human capital in the field of research and development. Our holistic endeavor includes the establishment and promotion of peer-to-peer, self-governed, and circular economies in digital space
Our approach is collective yet decentralized, driven by the principle of self-governance and rigorous use of evidence, disruptive technology, and people’s power
As a mission-driven distributed network, we combine expertise, insights, and ground-breaking technology to help communities worldwide create social innovation with positive impact. We help our members manage risk in complex social and political environments, giving everyone confidence to experiment with radically alternative ideas. Our goal is to make innovation and learning more adaptive and transformative in the pursuit of positive social change
We work with businesses, civil society actors, and research institutions to foster successful interaction between technology, public, and policy. The commissioning parties and cooperation partners place trust in the GCRI, and we work with them to generate novel ideas for positive change
Good governance is participatory, consensus oriented, accountable, transparent, responsive, effective, equitable and inclusive while following the rule of law
Sustainable development is a global paradigm and a general belief that all human endeavours should promote the longevity of the planet and its inhabitants
Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to create new or enhance existing services, processes, culture, and experiences
Public policy is the means of maintaining order and addressing the needs of citizens through actions defined by its constitution and executed by governments
Global Risk is GCRI's flagship research stream covering the implication of extreme events on policy responses at local, regional and global levels
International justice research covers accountability and transparency mechanisms that seek justice for some of the most serious crimes
GCRI brings together an unusual bunch of integrated solutions, cutting across the boundaries of industries, professions, and cultures, to fuel collaborative innovation
We connect projects with top-rated development teams worldwide producing technically sophisticated, beautifully designed, and socially conscious applications
We thrive on open collaboration to help us create a premiere resource for civic technology platforms and distribution around the globe
Our approach is collective yet decentralized, driven by the principle of self-governance and rigorous use of evidence, disruptive technology, and people’s power
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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