What Should Be the Focus at the 2026 IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings?

Starting April 13, financial leaders from around the world will meet at the 2026 International Monetary Fund-World Bank Spring Meetings to discuss the state of our global economy. We asked four CIGI experts what issues are expected to take centre stage.

The conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States is not just another Middle Eastern crisis; it is a stress test for the global system. In this article first published by Tech Policy Press, CIGI Senior Fellow S. Yash Kalash argues that its most enduring consequence may not be territorial change but the acceleration of a fractured and politicized global technological order.

Did you know that 79 percent of Canadians favour strong artificial intelligence (AI) regulation over rapid adoption? The newly released 2025 Carleton-CIGI-Ipsos global survey on digital governance reveals that a lack of AI regulation is fuelling public anxiety rather than confidence, with majorities asking for more AI oversight.

The Digital Policy Hub at CIGI is a collaborative space for emerging scholars and innovative thinkers from the social, natural and applied sciences. Here are the most recent working papers published by Hub fellows.

Amal Hussein: “Mapping AI Ethics in Africa: Global Principles and African Realities”

Karmvir K. Padda: “Platform Governance of Misogyny: Mainstream and Alternative Technology”

Follow the links on the Hub webpage to learn more about the Hub scholars and their work.

Back-to-back verdicts against Meta and YouTube may come to define this moment in technology law. In this commentary first published by the San Francisco Chronicle, Aaron Shull discusses the growing mismatch between the risks digital systems are designed to produce and the legal frameworks used to govern them.

On March 6, 2025, the Government of Canada launched its new Africa Strategy, framed as a blueprint for “shared prosperity and security.” One year later, Andrew Heffernan re-examines what a meaningful partnership could look like and what it would take to ensure that Canada’s engagement does no harm.