We're thrilled to have Kristina Mason join us here at RAKSHA Intelligence Futures as our first intern! Kristina, originally from Dayton, Nevada is pursuing her Master of International Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), concentrating on International Security Policy and specializing in Technology, Media and Communications. Prior to coming to Columbia University Kristina worked in Mwanza, Tanzania at Millennium Engineers, a renewable energy company developing the fishing industry of Lake Victoria. Kristina has also lived in Germany and Ghana. She speaks German, Swahili, and Spanish.
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Stay a step ahead with valuable decision intelligence and anticipatory risk analysis. At RAKSHA, Aarathi Krishnan and her team provide the decision intelligence, risk anticipation, and strategic foresight you need to avoid being caught by surprise. The world is full of uncertainty. It’s challenging to make big decisions and mitigate risk when you don’t understand or have access to all the pieces of the puzzle. We take a unique, multidisciplinary and multi-dimensional approach to data science because we know it’s not possible to neutralize risk with just one data set. We collect information from multiple areas, fill in the gaps, and make sense of complex issues and intelligence. We identify emerging risks that might impact positioning and decision-making, giving you the information you need to be precise and proactive in mitigating or navigating crises.
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RAKSHA is working on a global systems mapping of geopolitical shifts and drivers. The final analysis will be published as open access, to ensure that geopolitical research remains a free global public good. If you are well versed in global trade, economics, politics and would be happy to have a quick 30 min conversation with myself or my team, please do let me know. Or if you know of people that we should speak to from any part of the world, please also connect us below. If you're also a research analyst willing to volunteer some time for this project, we'd love to hear from you.
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Great analysis here by Wigdan Seedahmed on shoreline access and its role in economic growth.
Analytics | Conflict | Geopolitics | Foresight | Digital Solutions | Innovation | Complexity | MEAL | Product Design | Portfolio Management | Partnerships | International Relations | Business Development | Service Design
Africa’s Shorelines: Power, Trade, and Politics Who controls Africa’s ports, and does it really matter? While maritime access fuels economies and shapes conflicts, it is not a guarantee of success. Some coastal nations thrive, while others struggle. ?? Shoreline access is a tool, not a solution, governance and infrastructure matter more. ?? Ports influence war and peace, from Ethiopia’s landlocked struggle to Somalia’s piracy crisis. ?? Not all coastal nations prosper, Egypt and Nigeria thrive, while Sudan and Eritrea lag behind. Let’s discuss: Is Africa leveraging its shorelines effectively, or is the pie too small for all to gain? Read the full article below ?? #Geoplitics #Conflict #Peace #Africa
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Recent global aid shifts have left a lot shaken with its fast onset, unclear trajectory and outcomes. Here is some brief guidance on how your organisation might help navigate and think through how to prepare for plausible pathways: ? Risk anticipation is the process of anticipating emerging issues based on a wide range of data points that could impact societal, governance and institutional resilience. Note that anticipatory risk signals are not risk events. Rather they are indicators that collectively might significantly expand or expose existing risks. When trying to design possible scenario pathways of how some recent (geo)political might unfold, it is integral that your intelligence horizon scan goes as far and wide as possible. Do not just draw on what is in major news outlets - look at all socials, listen to what is happening in different news feeds, pick up on seemingly disparate or unrelated issues that don;’t seem to have gathered much noise. Often it is the most quiet issues that have the largest impact. Look at policy decisions, or policy considerations. Look at how member states might vote or not on various SC resolutions. Ask - why? What is behind this decision? How could it unfold? Secondly - do a causal link of your data points to identify focal issues and dependencies. Doing this allows you to narrow in on tipping and trigger points. Thirdly - make sure you document what is still unknown, or an uncertainty. It is these that will need continued monitoring. Just remember that scenario pathways have to include far and wide intelligence points. We are at a point where the implausible is now entirely possible. Check your assumptions and question how they might be undone. Do not assume existing protocols or law will be respected. Preparing for all pathways is not a doomsday exercise. Rather it is a practice of resilience to be prepared. And now is when we need to be prepared.?
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Executive Director at RAKSHA Intelligence Futures | Affiliate Cambridge Centre for Existential Risk | Ex UNDP, IFRC | Alumni Tech & Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School & Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
This is a really interesting article out by the new Geopolitics department at McKinsey & Company led by Ziad Haider. What is interesting about this is its focus on how businesses should take advantage of geopolitical headwinds to create new value propositions. Makes sense. In contrast to how we look at anticipating geopolitical shifts in multilateral governance and mission oriented organisations, where we seek to minimise/mitigate downstream impacts on people and planet. Both valid, and curious on how we bring both together so its not just businesses that thrives but also people.
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Our Executive Director reflections on what now ????
Executive Director at RAKSHA Intelligence Futures | Affiliate Cambridge Centre for Existential Risk | Ex UNDP, IFRC | Alumni Tech & Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School & Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
Globally 65 countries have gone to the polls in 2024. We have seen incumbent parties suffering major voter repudiation and a subsequent global shift of values as well as an increase in populist policies. The US election outcomes add to this, and is collectively shifting the global political landscape. We are no longer in a rules based world order, we are in a power based world order. What does this mean? It means we don’t have a playbook for how to navigate this. But we need to be prepared to meet this heads on. Being prepared for the worst is not just a form of resilience. It’s also a form of resistance. To ensure we don’t become victims of mere observance and rather become active resisters to the status quo. What I know is that our ability to understand in advance the bad that can happen, needs work. It needs to be reimagined. Continuing to be surprised at the depths of how quickly the bad can evolve is just not good enough anymore. At RAKSHA Intelligence Futures we are thinking and working on new forms of risk governance, and holistic risk analysis to ensure we see the truth for what it is. We will continue to support advanced risk intelligence to better understand how we can mitigate downstream risks and impacts. We work to redesign risk intelligence, and analysis, to ensure we don’t continue pass on the impacts of harm to those that are already bearing the brunt of it. We do this to ensure we can protect the paths of liberation for all. If you have ideas on how to advance forms of risk intelligence in the face of a populist, power based world, let’s collaborate. The time to get organized is now
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So excited from our amazing launch and looking forward to building!
Executive Director at RAKSHA Intelligence Futures | Affiliate Cambridge Centre for Existential Risk | Ex UNDP, IFRC | Alumni Tech & Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School & Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
We launched RAKSHA Intelligence Futures on September 23rd. Grateful for the incredible support, allies, partners, friends, clients and investors that came! With deep thanks for incredible remarks and speeches by Pedro Concei??o Laurel Patterson Rahul Chandran Dr. Jemilah Mahmood HRH Princess Sarah Zeid, Olga Tarasov and wonderful moderation by Lina Srivastava
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We officially launched last night! Some preview pics by the amazing Kristina Williamson with more to follow! An amazing night with great partners, investors, allies and friends ????
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We are proud to be supported by an experienced team of advisors. We learn from a specially curated group of exceptional leaders, that are whip smart in what they do, have a strong moral compass and believe in the mission of RAKSHA. Our advisors include Joseph D’Cruz - CEO of Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil, Malaysia; Indy Johar - ED of Dark Matter labs, UK; HRH Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan - Humanitarian Activist, US; Andrew Haupt - CFO of Institute of Transport and Development, US; Regina Morales - President and Founder, Telescope Research, US; Rohini Sampoornam Swaminathan - Climate and Environment Data Manager, UNICEF, Italy; Dr Chrisanta Muli - Director, Programs and Transformations, Oxfam Australia, Australia and Andrew Zolli - Chief Impact Officer, Planet, United States. www.rak-sha.com
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One of things that is a unique about RAKSHA, is that we draw on the collective. We are so proud to partner with like-minded organisations on this journey such as Changeist Superflux Demos Helsinki Overwatch Data Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Global Nation and Institute for Global Dialogue. If you'd like to discuss this journey together, get in touch!
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