Opinion Series

Data is being hailed as “the new oil.” The analogy seems appropriate given the growing amount of data being collected, and the advances made in its gathering, storage, manipulation and use for commercial, social and political purposes.

At the December 2017 World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires, 118 WTO members joined forces to conclude the Declaration on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment. In this series of commentaries, experts in trade, development and women's rights explore opportunities and challenges in realizing the declaration's goal of economic empowerment of women through inclusion in domestic and international trade.

In this series, international law experts from Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, comment on Brexit’s international and domestic law and governance implications.

Innovation is the puzzle at the heart of the knowledge economy. Unlock its secrets, and innovation will drive productivity and, in time, standards of living. Yet it remains a conundrum. In the coming weeks, a series of essays will marshall new thinking, and bring together a community of scholars and practitioners who offer fresh approaches.

Over the coming days, the Centre for International Governance Innovation will be publishing a series providing expert analysis and opinion from leading thinkers about what the modernization of the quarter-century-old North American Free Trade Agreement will mean for the knowledge economy in Canada and the people who turn ideas into innovations within one of the world’s largest free trade zones.