GLOBAL RISK DIALOGUE

Eradicating online piracy and internet misuse is critical for every nation. While strengthening protection against copyright infringement and intellectual property theft is essential, it is time each one of us evaluates whether the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA )and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) is the way to go.

Does the proposed legislation put information access and freedom at risk? Is Global Information Freedom at cross roads? Is fundamental human right at risk? Is Information access at risk?

Freedom of information is of paramount importance in a Global Age. Progress of humanity depends on freedom of information. To have information freedom, nations need to have Internet freedom. Free Internet fosters free information.

Do you think:
•Nations need to move past silo reactive legislation?
•Nations need to collectively propose and implement Internet guidelines?
•Nations need to collectively strengthen Internet security?
•Nations need to collectively work towards protection and promotion of the Internet’s universality, integrity, openness and freedom?

With an eye on the future, I look forward to a meaningful dialogue to manage critical global risks. Let me know your thoughts. Your involvement will help take this discussion forward.

Jayshree Pandya
Global Risk Advisor

Provides nations a much-needed integrated holistic NGIOA risk warning system

Risk Group, a Global Risk Research and Advisory Think Tank Organization announces Global Risk Rating Portal Initiative.

Consistent with Risk Group’s vision of much-needed collective governance role of Global NGIOA (nations: its government, industries, organization, and academia); launch of each global initiative will bring nations a step closer to achieving the futuristic governance model of an emerging global age.

With the advances in emergence of a Global Age, there is a critical need for risk rating system that is meaningful and credible; and which can provide global stakeholders the trust and confidence that will be so very fundamental in a Global Age. The development and launch of Global Risk Rating Portal by Risk Group will meet those needs and ensure that the Global Risk Rating System remains timely, meaningful, effective, and credible.

The launch of Global Risk Rating Portal Initiative will begin with rating much-needed integrated risks of nations: its governments, industries, organizations, and academia in an emerging Global Age.

The Global NGIOA Risk Rating Portal serves as a vehicle to measure public risk rating opinion poll across nations, as well as aggregate strength of NGIOA overall. The Global NGIOA Risk Rating system calculates and assigns a composite rating based on the data and input provided by Risk Group registered members. The Global NGIOA Risk Rating Portal exclusively uses data provided by Risk Group registered members.

The Risk Rating provided on the Global Risk Rating Portal is not the view of Risk Group.

As WHO Global forum begins to address the challenge of non-communicable disease prevention, treatment, and control today, the important question that nations need to ask is whether modern medical science is failing.

The rise of chronic non-communicable diseases is an impending disaster across nations. As modern medicine visibly fails nations in managing the challenges of chronic non-communicable diseases cure, nations are witnessing an opportunity to broaden the meaning of medicine and have a meaningful dialogue to come up with a holistic strategy to prevent and cure non-communicable diseases– and make healthcare affordable and meaningful.

As the chronic non-communicable disease crisis reaches a critical phase, its global impact is yet to be clearly understood and effectively measured. In light of the unfolding impact of chronic non-communicable diseases, what reaction is being observed in your nation to its current and future medical science strategy?

• Modern medicine is in crisis
• Modern medicine is not in crisis

With an eye on the future, I look forward to a meaningful dialogue to manage critical risks. Let me know your thoughts.

Jayshree Pandya PhD

Japan Nuclear Crisis brings enormous challenges to every nation that has Nuclear power, or is in the process of getting Nuclear Power.
The unplanned and uncontrolled release of radioactive substances in ocean that has probably half-life of a week to several decades is bringing critical concerns to many across nations. As the Japan Nuclear crisis reaches a critical phase, its global impact is yet to be clearly understood and effectively measured.
In light of the unfolding nuclear events in Japan, what reaction is being observed in your nation to its current and future Nuclear Power?
• Nuclear power is in crisis
• Nuclear Power is not in crisis
With an eye on the future, I look forward to a meaningful dialogue to manage critical risks. Let me know your thoughts.
Jayshree Pandya PhD

Earth’s environment has probably been changing for years due to many reasons: some reasons that are known and understood by scientific community and some reasons that are not known, and which scientific community is still trying to understand. Some environmental changes that are internal changes and some that are external changes. The question is whether all these known-unknowns as well as internal-external changes happening in earth’s environment should be considered normal, common, as well as cyclical. Nations need to evaluate these factors in a collective non- partisan way. It is important that nations understand earth:its environment, as well as its dependencies. To understand earth: its systems, its environment, its dependencies, as well as the underlying science in a non partisan neutral manner has become very important for every nation today.

Over the last few years, nations have witnessed increasingly heated debate on the role of humans in alleged deterioration of earth’s environment. Although the role of humans has been questioned by many, the question is whether scientific community can say with certainty that these environmental changes are not due to natural or other unknown reasons and that their scientific conclusions are not tainted by their political ideology. In addition, this makes it absolutely essential that nations do critical risk centric assessment of the science findings that has such broad and significant impact across nations.

Environmental changes have occurred in the past, are occurring now, and probably will occur in the future due to various known and unknown factors. Some unknowns that nations and its scientists will be able to understand; and many more unknowns that nations and its scientists will probably never be able to understand.

At this point, nations probably can neither agree nor disagree with the so called global warming hypothesis or climate change theories decisively. Nor can nations agree or disagree on the proposed climate change solutions that are being proposed today, as the scientific information in totality is probably not sufficient for any nation to come to an informed conclusion. What is probably clear at this point is that the complex environmental challenges makes it essential for nations to have a fundamental integrated risk governance framework that can not only identify critical environmental risks, but can also effectively assess, prioritize, and manage environmental risks in a collective non partisan way.

This should be the first step nation’s needs to take to bring the necessary confidence in the environmental problem as well as the proposed solutions

Let me know your thoughts

Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Nations are going through a time of rapid change, fierce competition, and complex interrelated, integrated, and interdependent risks. In this time of rapid change, nations lack the fundamental framework that is required for understanding complex change, fierce competition, and nations interdependent interrelated risks. Today’s nations seem clueless to this change, and their governance has become– almost ineffective and irrelevant.

Nations traditional approach of reactive regulations after crisis happens does not make sense today. Any such reactive regulation lacks the fundamental capability of effectively controlling or managing any critical risks or crises; nor does it prevent any systems or markets failures.

Nations have reached a time where they need to begin debating the way it needs to govern. Let me know your thoughts. Please specify which nation you are addressing.

Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Global Age has brought nations industries unprecedented opportunities to grow across national boundaries and becoming as some say “too big”. There is a movement in some nations to prevent these industries from growing and becoming “too big”. While “too big to fail” is understandably creating fear and panic across nations, is this the right approach to prevent industry risks?
While nation’s tax payers should never have to bail out these industries under any circumstances, the question that arises is whether preventing growth and not letting industries become too big, a sensible solution?
It is important that nations understand Global Age challenges and propose effective Global Age solutions to Global Age problems.
With an eye on the future I look forward to a meaningful dialogue to address critical Global Age risks. Let me know your thoughts.Please specify which nation or industry you are addressing.

Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Partisan policies put nations @ risk.

While the democratic party in United States have managed to pass a health care bill with questionable practices and procedures; the divided governance of United states: questionable practices of lawmakers, expanding role of government, increased government spending, expanding tentacles of socialism, and most important a divided nation brings critical risks to United States of America.

United States has clearly failed in leading nations to a Global Age compatible policy design and implementation framework. This is probably the beginning of decline of United States leadership and its ability to lead in a Global Age.

With an eye on the future I look forward to a meaningful dialogue to address critical global risks. Let me know your thoughts.

Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Dear Dr. Jayshree,
I am sending this children’s little story to be published at your Risk Blog:
Best regards,
Dr. Marcos

Since December 2008 I have created a site called “PULMAO SA which in English means LUNG-SA : ” Your atmosphere, Your Life ! “
Disposable at: http://www.pulmaosa.com.br

The site’s slogan sums up my role in trying to protect the “real atmosphere of the people, or, in other words, the air that is inside of us make up our real atmosphere.

The SA of the name has the objective to draw attention to the goal of our mission of providing information to the sector 3 S:

State (Government), SA (companies) and schools (children and youth). Thus could be able to build a network of protection around the smoker that permit quit smoking and even do not start this dependence on cigarettes or tobacco products.

As children are my main focus, I created some characters with universal values to talk and tell stories about the dangers of tabacco.

I would like to Invite everyone to know some of them in the litte story below:

ZOO LOGIC ?
Hey friends we will go to another visit to the Zoo but with new perpective: an animal perspective …In the monkeys’ cage monkeys are playing in the jump ropes and branches of trees and begin to observe a group of human adults and children who are “behind bars” draws attention to them …

children are playing with our friends “Lunggy Right”, “Lunggy 2″ and ” Hearty”!
“Lunggy Left” says: Hello, how are you?
Hearty says: I am fine.
Lunnggy Right is enchanted seeing one banana’s piece and also answer he’s also fine.
One of monkeys, the youngest one, call the Lunnggy Right’s attention about an unusual situation …

- “Right” !

-”What is that? “

Right asks: “What?”
The child monkey asked again:
“Right”, the adult human is on fire!

-Help him! Help him! Says the little monkey so afraid and worrying about that strange situation! Because as everybody knows, where there is smoke, there is fire!

Child Monkey, Hearty, Right and Left shouted:
” calls the fire department, call the elephants and seals! “

“Help! Heeeellllpp! “
Right and Left looked at where the “child monkey was pointing with all his ten fingers…
and in fact it seemed that that was a really true situation: an adult was just putting smoke out of your mouth!
Oh no, says another monkey, the adult is also putting smoke into the mouth!
- For the Veterinary’s sake! said the monkeys !

That situation also drew the attention of other zoo’s animals! You know about the perception sense of the animals…They simple know since they were little children what represent a danger, a hazard situation!
And what will they do when see the danger? They keep out the danger. And Fire represent one of greatest dangers to the life!
Right, Left and Heartty understood what are happening.
And explains that was a smoking situation. Smoking constitutes a terrible menace to the life!
All animals moving their heads up and down showing absolutely concordance with them.
Right calls a doctor named “Hakin” to explain that situation…
The Doctor “Hakin” was a medicine doctor.
And Doctor “Hakin” says: Childrrrennn!
“-In fact, both smoke and fire represent a hazard to our lives and also to our health!
* -Childrrennn!

“We MUST keep out of them!

*- People could not smoking!The smoking air contains a substance called Nico, Nico, Nico, AtchIN!(The doctor sneezing!). Sorry, Childrrrennn! As I am saying the smoking air contains NICOTINE!

The Little Elephant says: Oh no! Then, if an adult be smoking close to me could I become sick?
The Doctor “Hakin” says:- Unfortunately “yes”, Childrrrennn!
Little Elephant:-Oh, For veterinary’s sake! My little nose gonna be sick, SICK!
-I am feeling my nose will snooze because of that Nico, Nico, NICO ATCHIN !

Some Children says: -”Hey Right and Left & Heartty! We need start an Educational campaing against the tobacco smoking because it is a hazard thing to our Life, to our HEALTH and to the our atmosphere and the environment !
-We need as the animals take care of our Health and our Enviroment! Responsible Care!

Let’s create a Free Tobacco Zone in the Zoo! Here,Nobody likes smoke or fire ! This will protect the children and adults’ Health, and our friends Right, Left, Heartty !

The Little Monkey baby says: To this act a Great Yuupy Hurray!
From that day on, that Zoo was named by everybody as the Zoo LOGIC !

With All respect,

Dr. Marcos Nascimento,Md.
Chief Editor of http://www.pulmaosa.com.br
Attendence in Tobacco Treatment by Mayo Clinic
Respiratory Care Professor at college of Medicine of PUCPR
Curitiba-Brazil

Knowledge, Education, Skills, and Training are essential and fundamental raw material for any nation’s success in a rapidly changing times.

While nations commit and spend a significant portion of their GDP on education system, there is no guarantee that investment in education system brings much needed affordability, adaptation, and change that is necessary with the rapidly changing times. This is a risk of great proportions.

•Do you see your nation’s education system compatible with the globalizing economies?
•Do you see your nation’s educators, educating students based on facts and not political ideology?
•Do you see your nation’s education trend is dictated by nation’s ruling governance?
•Do you see a need to privatize your nation’s education system?

With an eye on the future, I look forward to a meaningful dialogue to manage critical education risks. Let me know your thoughts.

Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Across nations, there is a troubling disconnect at all levels. It is time nations understand, acknowledge, and manage their inter-dependencies, be it within a business, within an industry, or within a nation.

1.Do you see a disconnect within your nation?
2.Do you think your nation has the capability to understand and acknowledge their inter-dependencies?
3.Do you think any meaningful steps are taken to manage the inter-dependencies within your nation?
Please specify which nation you are addressing.

With an eye on the future I look forward to a meaningful dialogue to address critical interdependency risks. Let me know your thoughts.

Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Across nations, there is a need to better manage market manipulation and manipulators in globalizing markets and economies. Controlling, exposing, and eradicating market manipulation is vital for the success of any nation and global markets.
• Do you think an effective integrated global surveillance system for monitoring market manipulation and fraud in the global integrated markets is necessary?
• Do you think market manipulation and manipulators can be controlled and managed in your nation?
• Do you think there is a need for new approach to manage market manipulation?
Let me know your thoughts. Please specify which nation you are addressing.
Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Science research is a blessing to society.
The research challenges nations face in globalizing economies calls for some fundamental common sense in the approach that science takes globally. Time has come for science, business, and government to work hand in hand. Needs of science and business are complementary. This makes it essential that science needs are clearly communicated, goal oriented, and constructively met. Integrating, securing, safeguarding, and centralizing the research findings of public/private science research needs to be a national priority.
This will help in:
1. Avoidance of investments in already solved science research problems
2. Prevent loss in intellectual property due to mismanaged research priorities by both public/private (universities as well as industry)
3. Allow cross industry research /innovation access
4. Meet national and global science goals

What is the state of science within your nation? What are the risks and challenges you see in science research/innovation within your nation?
Let me know your thoughts. Please specify which nation you are addressing.
Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

In a Global Age, the role of nation’s government need to be of removing obstacles for business /industries/investors and assist business/industries/investors in competing successfully across their nation’s boundaries.

What is the status of your nation?

• Which nations do you think will be winners and losers under the circumstances?
• Which business/industry/investment you see facing challenges within your nation?
• What potential risks you see of any such development?
• Which nations will rise and fall in the coming years?

Please specify which nation you are addressing. Let me know your thoughts.
Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

United States probably has the best capital markets in the world. The capital markets coupled with innovation drive stimulates, not only healthy competition and great innovations, but enables sound economic viability and the fundamental vitality of this nation.
The confidence, quality, breadth and depth of the United States markets attracted global investors and investment capital for many years. However United States market’s fundamentals, its operating integrity, regulation, and confidence has been seriously questioned with the current global financial crisis. This has shaken investor confidence.
This is expected to create challenges for not only USA, but many other nations in attracting investments. The globalizing economies and the reality of today’s markets demand some fundamental changes in how nations, its governments, its industries, and markets should function and operate.
What changes do you believe are critical for your nation?
What critical barriers do you see that needs to be overcome?
What should your nation do to attract not only global investment but stay competitive in the global economy? What actions should your nation take to bring back that investor confidence?
Please specify which Nation you are addressing.
Let me know your thoughts.
Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Biotechnology offers immense opportunities for the improvement of human ability. This industry promises to make significant contributions to the quality of human life: from what we eat, what we wear, to how we live and so on. The advantages, and promise of biotechnology are broad and compelling; and the risks are not clearly understood, managed, or regulated. It is this opportunity and risk that is stirring a global anxiety.

Every nation and its decision makers need to answer some very fundamental questions:

Who is expected to address the industry risks? Industry leaders? Government Officials? Others?
Are the industry risks assessed and found worth the benefits?
What specific tools need to be developed to address the challenges of this industry?
What are your nations plans to effectively manage biotechnology industry risks? Let me know your thoughts.

Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Globalization, rapid advances in information and communications technology, and a strong market need for rapid cost effective health care services are changing the face of Health-care industry in a border-less world.  Nations and its governments need to have a better understanding and be prepared to face the challenges to its nation’s Health-care system.
What are your nations plans to effectively manage health-care industry risks? Let me know your thoughts
Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Over the past few years the global community has witnessed an alarming increase in natural disasters that has resulted in significant changes in the global landscape. It is this changing global landscape and increase in frequency and severity of disasters that has brought nations facing a grueling set of challenges, and an obstacle to economic development, as well as loss of human life.

What are your nations plans to effectively manage such disasters? Let me know your thoughts
Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

Global challenges necessitates re-evaluation of the role of government. As business faces the challenges of global competition, there is a strong need to re-define the role of government, and evaluate business-government relationship. What do you think should be the role of government and business-government relationship today?
Let me know your thoughts. Please specify which nation you are addressing.
Jayshree Pandya PhD
Global Risk Advisor

What are the potential risks of recombinant DNA technology?
Let me know your thoughts
Jayshree Pandya
Global Risk Advisor

What has the Global Financial Crisis taught the Nations, and its Decision Makers.How should they apply that knowledge to manage risks differently in the future?
Let me know your thoughts.

Dr. Jayshree Pandya
Global Risk Advisor

Should a failing industry/business be saved?
Let me know your thoughts.
Jayshree Pandya
Global Risk Advisor

Energy industry is at the center of a global power play and is of a great strategic and political significance. This is an industry that has, in fact, a potential to change position of countries, regions, and societies. Coal is a vital component of Energy Industry. Global warming concerns has brought Coal’s role as a Safe Energy Resource in question by many.

There is a problem. The question is whether there are possible technology solution. What technology Innovations are happening in your country that can probably save this sector? If you had to take decision would you see in coal a case for Investment and Innovation?
Let me know your thoughts. Please specify the nation you are addressing
Jayshree Pandya
Global Risk Advisor

United States probably had the best capital markets in the world. These capital markets coupled with innovation drive stimulated not only competition and great innovations but enabled economic viability and the fundamental vitality of this great nation.

The confidence, quality, breadth and depth of the United States markets attracted global investors and investment capital for many years. However United States markets’ fundamentals, its operating integrity, regulation, and confidence has been seriously questioned with the current global financial crisis and has shaken investor confidence.

This would undoubtedly create challenges for not only USA but many nations in attracting investments. The globalizing economies and the realities of today’s markets demand some fundamental changes in how nations, its governments, its industries and markets should function and operate.

What changes do you believe are critical for your nation? What critical barriers do you see that need to be overcome? What should your nation do to attract not only global investment but stay competitive in the global economy? What actions should your nation take to bring back that investor confidence?

Let me know your thoughts. Please specify which Nation you are addressing.
Dr. Jayshree Pandya

Global Risk Advisor

Energy industry is at the center of a global power play. This industry is facing critical challenges and has become a great source of concern to nations.

What risks, issues, challenges, and obstacles do you see this industry facing in the coming years?
How does this industry impact other industries?
What do you think are possible solutions and mitigation plans for the advancement of this critical industry?

Let me know your thoughts.
Dr. Jayshree Pandya
Global Risk Advisor

The world today is witnessing impact of not only energy insecurity , but the beginning of a growing concern of “resource nationalization” in general. It is not just the oil and gas sector facing re-nationalization ; but rather Coal, Methane, Uranium, and much more.

Do you think “Natural Resources” should be nationalized?
Do you think that re-emergence of state/nation controlled resources pose a serious challenge to global peace and the global economy?
Do you think the world is entering an era where “natural resources” are becoming political tools and weapons?
Let me know your thoughts. Please specify which Nation you are addressing.
Dr. Jayshree Pandya
Global Risk Advisor