Blitzscaling for Impact
IX · Open Decisions for the Council

Three to ratify. Four reserved for Riyadh.

Each decision shows the candidate options and the working recommendation. The recommendation is a starting point, not a default — the Council ratifies.

DECISION · 01

Which three SDG clusters to activate first?

Options
01
Health & Surgical Access (SDG 3)

Most quantifiable cost-of-non-service. Established measurement infrastructure.

02
Financial Inclusion (SDG 8+10)

Mobile rails already exist. Clearest commercial signal.

03
Education & Skills (SDG 4)

Mature outcome metrics. Long horizon ROI.

04
Food Security (SDG 2)

High geopolitical sensitivity. Harder to standardize.

05
Climate Resilience (SDG 13)

Vital but methodology nascent for cost-of-non-service.

Working recommendation

Health, Financial Inclusion, and Education — most established measurement infrastructure, clearest commercial signals.

DECISION · 02

Legal structure for the market infrastructure organisation?

Options
01
Independent nonprofit

Speed and clarity of mission. Risk: capture if commercial pressures dominate.

02
Hosted at WEF or research university

Speed and legitimacy. Risk: institutional inertia.

03
Open-standards foundation (Apache / IETF model)

Prevents capture; requires explicit governance design.

Working recommendation

Independent open-standards foundation, with WEF and Saudi Expo 2030 as founding institutional members of the governance board.

DECISION · 03

Who builds — and who owns — the market intelligence layer?

Options
01
Build with technical partner (Accenture / Deloitte / PwC)

Speed; needs explicit IP transfer and open-sourcing.

02
Commission an academic institution (Stanford / Oxford / MIT)

Methodology rigor; potentially slower.

03
Co-build with existing data platform (World Bank / IHME)

Distribution baked-in; governance trade-offs.

Working recommendation

Commission the build; open-source the codebase and dataset on completion; govern through the standards foundation. Whoever builds it must not own it.

DECISIONS · 04 · 05 · 06 · 07

Reserved for the Saudi Expo session

Formal relationship structure · award design · 2028 pavilion mechanism · index integrity backstop.