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    LATEST RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

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    • Digital Economy
    • Digital Governance

    Decentralization, Assets and Privacy in the Twenty-First Digital Century

    The evolving landscape of digital privacy, decentralization and digital assets has challenged traditional regulatory frameworks and reshaped social, economic and governance structures, including the rise of centralized digital oligarchies and the implications of decentralized finance and central bank digital currencies on financial stability, privacy and monetary sovereignty.

    • Andreas Veneris
    July 9, 2025

    CIGI Announces New Partnership to Explore Impact of Disruptive Technologies on National Security

    July 7, 2025
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    • Digital Economy
    • Transformative Technologies

    Real-Time Rail and the Future of Digital Payments in Canada

    • Tracey Black
    July 10, 2025

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Digital Governance
    • National Security

    How to Confront Canada’s Digital Dependence

    • Heidi Tworek
    • Alicia Wanless
    July 1, 2025

    • Quantum Technology
    • Transformative Technologies

    Structuring Markets for Strategic Quantum Innovation

    • Tracey Forrest
    • Nikolas Guggenberger
    June 26, 2025

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    • Digital Economy
    • Transformative Technologies

    Could Stablecoins Create Financial Instability?

    • Colin Chia
    July 8, 2025

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    • Digital Economy
    • Financial Governance
    • Geopolitics

    Exploring Potential Impacts of Global Shifts on Financial Systems and Assets

    • S. Yash Kalash
    June 26, 2025

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    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Geopolitics
    • National Security

    AI Is Reviving Fears Around Bioterrorism. What’s the Real Risk?

    • Kyle Hiebert
    June 30, 2025

    Publications

    • Digital Governance
    • Financial Governance

    Opportunities for Digital Assets in a Fractured World

    • Timothy Lane
    July 11, 2025
    • Geopolitics
    • National Security

    Canada at Economic War: Being Outplayed by Beijing

    • Raquel Garbers
    June 24, 2025
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Digital Economy

    Developing Countries’ Business Participation in the AI Economy

    • Douglas Lippoldt
    June 18, 2025
    • Digital Economy
    • Financial Governance

    How Central Banks Are Shaping the Future of Digital Currencies

    • S. Yash Kalash
    June 12, 2025

    Highlights

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    • Data Governance

    The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Value of Data

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    • National Security
    • Space Governance

    Cybersecurity and Outer Space

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    • Artificial Intelligence
    • National Security

    The Ethics of Automated Warfare and Artificial Intelligence

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    • Platform Governance

    The Four Domains of Global Platform Governance

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    • Democracy
    • Diplomacy

    Situating Canada in a Changing World: Constructing a Modern and Prosperous Future

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    • Conflict Management
    • Transformative Technologies

    Global Cooperation on Digital Governance and the Geoeconomics of New Technologies in a Multi-polar World

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    • Transformative Technologies

    Global Cooperation after COVID-19

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    • National Security

    Security, Intelligence and the Global Health Crisis

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    • Artificial Intelligence

    Modern Conflict and Artificial Intelligence

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    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Trade

    Modernizing the World Trade Organization

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    • National Security

    Governing Cyberspace during a Crisis in Trust

    Multimedia

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    • National Security

    Canada at Economic War

    As the world shifts toward a new and uncertain world order, Canada finds itself on the front lines, caught between rival superpowers in a 360-degree threat environment.

    Raquel Garbers, CIGI visiting executive from the Department of National Defence, provides insight on how globalization enabled hostile actors — China chief among them — to use illicit, unfair and illegal economic practices to corrupt the global order that has been essential for maintaining stable interstate relations.

    • Raquel Garbers
    June 25, 2025

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Transformative Technologies

    AI-Driven Productivity Scenarios

    • Paul Samson
    • S. Yash Kalash
    June 2, 2025

    From Shipping Things to Spreading Ideas (unboxing global trade with Marc Levinson)

    • Paul Samson
    • Vass Bednar
    May 5, 2025

    • G20/G7

    T7 2025: Aligning G7 Priorities with Global Challenges

    • Paul Samson
    • Tracey Forrest
    • S. Yash Kalash
    • and more
    April 21, 2025

    Perfect Fit Content (from elevator music to your AI DJ with Liz Pelly)

    • Paul Samson
    • Vass Bednar
    April 22, 2025

    Events

    • Intellectual Property

    8th Annual IP Data & Research Conference | 8e Conférence annuelle sur la recherche et les données en PI

    Nov 4, 2025 - 9:00 AM EST (UTC–05:00)
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    The Future of Digital Finance

    Sep 24, 2025 - 7:00 AM EDT (UTC–04:00)
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    • G20/G7

    Think7 Summit: Canada 2025

    Apr 1, 2025 - 8:00 AM EDT (UTC–04:00)
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