Trade Equality: Women's Economic Empowerment
In the past, most trade experts assumed trade was gender neutral and that gender-based human rights and international trading systems should never mix — until now.
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VIDEO: How Surveillance Capitalism Undermines Democracy
There is growing concern about the effect and role social media platforms like Facebook are having on the integrity of democracy and on the character of society. In this video, Taylor Owen explains that governments need to act quickly to regulate these platforms.
VIDEO: Big Data: The Canadian Opportunity
How can Canada excel in big data? This animated video considers how Canada’s primary industries can foster economic growth in Canada’s data-driven economy.
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Why NAFTA 2.0 Needs Digital Trade - But Might Not Get It
The CIGI Podcast
- Patrick Leblond
- Mary Ambrose
There Are No Climate Change Deniers in the Insurance Industry
The CIGI Podcast
- Jason Thistlethwaite
- Mary Ambrose
Traditional Knowledge Belongs in Progressive Trade Policy
The CIGI Podcast
- Marsha Cadogan
- Oluwatobiloba (Tobi) Moody
- Mary Ambrose
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Speaker Series
From September to May each year, the CIGI Speaker Series are presented on important international topics to raise public awareness and understanding on a variety of current global issues. This series features some of the most prominent and acclaimed figures in their respective areas of global governance.
Global Policy Forum Series
Launched in 2012 by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), and held at the Rideau Club in Ottawa, the CIGI Global Policy Forum offers audience members access to a wide range of distinguished speakers: policy experts and influencers shaping the world's debates and discussions on global economic, security, development and environmental issues.
Innovation in Context
Leading thinkers from around the globe look at how societal conditions foster successful innovations
Inside the Issues, Season Six
Join co-hosts David Welch and Andrew Thompson for the sixth season of Inside the Issues — a podcast series — as they share timely and candid discussions with global governance experts on issues related to the core areas of CIGI expertise: Global Economy, Global Security & Politics and International Law.
CIGI at the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund
Meeting of the International Monetary Fund in the Spring and Fall. Discussions and commentaries touch on a range of timely issues related to the global economy.
Investor State Arbitration between Developed Democracies
Investor-state arbitration (ISA), also known as Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), by which a foreign investor is entitled to sue a state for damages resulting from the alleged violation of an applicable bilateral investment treaty or an investment chapter in a regional trade agreement, has come under scrutiny in many parts of the world.
Conference on Internet Governance and Cyber-Security
The emerging challenges brought about by new technologies will require novel and adaptive policy responses from governments with major input and participation from the private sector, policy makers and the academy. Only by convening these diverse interests is it likely that effective policy frameworks can be developed over time. It is with this need in mind that Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) hosted the Conference on Internet Governance and Cyber-Security from May 14 to 15, in collaboration with the Global Commission on Internet Governance.
Inside the Issues, Season Five
Join co-hosts David Welch and Andrew Thompson for the fifth season of Inside the Issues — a weekly podcast series — as they share timely and candid discussions with global governance experts on issues related to the core areas of CIGI expertise: Global Economy, Global Security & Politics and International Law.
The Internet Is
Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) Commissioners share their thoughts on what the Internet is and the impact it has on the world.