Balsillie Papers

Obasesam Okoi
As AI infrastructures expand rapidly across the globe, they bring into sharper focus the often-overlooked costs of digital innovation, particularly their entanglement with extractive economies and conflict dynamics.

Fred Cheung
Semiconductors constitute the backbone of the modern economy, but Canada relies heavily on imported chips. This context highlights the urgency for Ottawa to strengthen its domestic semiconductor ecosystem.

Warren Parker and Alan Whiteside
In the initial months of the second Trump administration, abrupt policy shifts placed the lives of millions of people living with HIV at risk and significantly weakened global HIV prevention efforts.

Fatmanur Delioglu
This paper examines the integration of advanced surveillance technologies in the European Union, the multiple uses of technologies, and their impact on migrants and migration management.

Abdul Malek Al Jaber and Jatin Nathwani
An economic corridor through Gaza — the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) — could become a gradual pathway for peace, productivity and stability in the region.

Münür Sacit Herdem and Jatin Nathwani
Green hydrogen has enormous potential for advancing a low-carbon future within the hard-to-abate sectors and also for shaping the issue of energy security. In this paper, we present a beginner’s guide for policymakers and readers interested in green hydrogen.

Katherine Bruce-Lockhart and Ashley M. W. Mungai While mass prisoner releases are not a new phenomenon — throughout history, governments have freed people in response to health crises, during holidays, or to mark political transitions — the scale, scope and speed of releases during the pandemic were unprecedented.

Münür Sacit Herdem and Jatin Nathwani
This paper presents innovative approaches to rethinking education and peer review in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).

Jatin Nathwani and Ann Fitz-Gerald
Whereas critical challenges to humanity have been tasking international experts for millennia, rapid advancements in emerging transformative technologies (ETT) give rise to a fundamental problem that requires strategies for risk management and governance.

Ann Fitz-Gerald, Dmytro Chumachenko, Halyna Padalko and Vijay Ganesh
As AI technology evolves rapidly, concerns over its potential threats and the necessity for regulatory mechanisms have become central to the global conversation.