World Solve

AI systems built in one country are used worldwide, but there's no shared international rulebook governing how they should behave. Without cooperation, regulation ends up fragmented and easy to bypass.

Refugees often end up concentrated in a handful of neighboring countries while the rest of the world debates policy from a distance. A fairer, shared system could ease pressure on frontline nations and improve outcomes for displaced people.

Maternal death rates in some parts of the world remain drastically higher than in wealthy nations, despite childbirth being a universal human experience. Making safe childbirth truly global remains an unmet basic need.

Wealthier countries can screen for many rare genetic conditions at birth, but most of the world's newborns are never tested. Expanding this access could catch treatable conditions before irreversible damage occurs.

Develop equitable clinical, laboratory, telemedicine, and data-sharing pathways that shorten diagnostic odysseys without requiring centralized high-cost sequencing.

Build coordinated monitoring, habitat protection, energy-infrastructure planning, and legal cooperation for species crossing many countries.

Create sustainable community care, pensions, housing, health, mobility, and digital-access systems for countries aging before becoming high-income.

Develop fair, administratively feasible methods for taxing digital economic activity without overwhelming countries with limited negotiating capacity.

Create cooperative frameworks that enable countries sharing underground water reserves to measure extraction, prevent depletion, and resolve disputes.

A persistent gap exists in realizing practical, scalable solutions for mechanisms for ensuring that the benefits of the bioeconomy are shared with biodiversity-rich countries. Scientific understanding, engineering readiness and institutional capacity remain insufficient to translate promising concepts into durable impact under real-world constraints of cost, skills and governance.

The absence of robust, context-adapted solutions for interventions that improve the nutritional quality of diets in low- and middle-income countries creates cascading risks across interconnected human and natural systems. Key missing elements include durable performance, low lifetime cost, and governance arrangements capable of sustaining impact beyond pilot stages.

Achieving interventions that improve the quality and equity of secondary education in low-income countries at meaningful scale demands simultaneous progress in fundamental research, engineering integration and socio-technical systems that work for low- and middle-income settings. Existing efforts remain fragmented relative to the magnitude of the challenge.