Collective Intelligence in International Affairs
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to analyze how the civilized machinery works together to solve complex collective problems and utilize synergies that make it possible for humans to strategically innovate.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to redefine global cooperation by improving the collective human composition, interaction, policy intervention and transformations resulting from innovations of present and future generations.
ABOUT US
Strahl Composite is a think tank with a unique global perspective and experience analyzing and intervening in the collective intelligence space between humans and the totality of civilizations. Chiefly, how societies, institutions, and other governing systems solve complex collective problems. We examine and reflect potential synergies derived from vast differences and competing interests wrought by innovations to enhance collective intelligence.
Our systems analysis approach is interdisciplinary and combines social-scientific traditions in the analysis of organizing processes and their outcomes. We put the human at the center of this approach. How humans and sovereign states interact with each other, how humans interact with technology and vice-versa, how humans build the world, and how humans exchange goods, services, and information across borders. Our research is driven by a strong interest in collective intelligence as a practical, situated, contested, and changing matter.
OUR APPROACH
PUBLICATIONS
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FEATURED REPORTS
Collective Intelligence reports from our colleagues around the world
INFRASTRUCTURE
IEA Electricity | 2026
The IEA’s annual report on global
electricity systems and markets – provides in-depth analysis of the recent trends and policy developments underpinning this new era. It includes forecasts for
electricity demand, supply and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for select
countries, by region and worldwide. This year the forecast period has been
expanded to five years, 2026-2030, compared with the previous three-year outlook.
GLOBAL BUSINESS
Africa's Next Billion-Dollar Markets | 2026
The report identifies and ranks the markets most likely to cross, sustain, or multiply beyond the billion-dollar threshold over the 2026 to 2030 window. Eight sectors are assessed
in depth: digital finance and fintech, energy and distributed power, agribusiness and food processing,
healthcare and pharmaceuticals, logistics and regional trade, urban infrastructure and housing, climate adaptation and resilience, and manufacturing with critical minerals. Each is evaluated against market size, growth trajectory, investment attractiveness, and policy tailwinds, and scored using PureData's structured opportunity framework.
TECH+SOCIETY
AI and Open Finance | 2026
This report examines the interplay of AI innovation with data-sharing environments, highlighting mutually reinforcing benefits alongside increased complexity, trade-offs and amplified risks. It also explores a forward-looking theoretical scenario of agentic AI in an environment of growing data-sharing. The report aims to support the responsible and scalable deployment of AI innovation within open finance ecosystems.
DIPLOMACY
Building Human Capital Where it Matters | 2026
The report argues that, to accelerate human capital development and accumulation, the focus of policy needs to be expanded beyond schools and clinics to include other key settings where human capital is built: the home, the neighborhood, and the workplace. This settings approach provides an understanding of some of the crucial drivers of human capital accumulation, such as care for children and adolescents in the home, the social dynamics and the quality of the environment in neighborhoods, and job attributes that foster learning at work.
