Collective Intelligence in International Affairs
MISSION STATEMENT
Strähl Composite is an independent International Affairs start-up think tank that applies Collective Intelligence to assist leaders in the public and private sectors to make informed decisions, identify common ground, facilitate mutually-beneficial connections, find sustainable solutions to global issues and encourage present and future generations to leave the world better than they found it.
ABOUT US
Humans living in a particular country or region share customs, laws, and organization. Our collective intelligence is the shared or group intelligence that emerges from collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals. It is evident in many disciplines in international affairs due to our innate ability to socialize and galvanize around common issues, and form decisions around those linkages that could affect many at the expense of a few or affect a few at the expense of many.
The world of technology is borderless and keeps expanding beyond imagination. Emerging technologies of the third and fourth industrial revolution coincide to assist us and themselves in making decisions. This artificial intelligence within machine learning, deep learning, and their many iterations, like immersive technologies, are modelled after how humans interact in physical form. This change in interaction fundamentally affects how information flows and has led to a form of collective intelligence that combines the best of what technology and humans have to offer. It also challenges our concept of metaphysics. This augmented ability of humans working together with computers (technology) means that we can absorb and process certain kinds of information at an alarming rate. This is a most interesting form of collective intelligence that can provide a variety of decision scenarios at superhuman speed.
We have to be constantly aware of how we wield it.
FEATURED REPORTS
Collective Intelligence reports from our colleagues around the world
INFRASTRUCTURE
Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa | 2025
This report offers an insight into inequalities within the African context and how rising inequalities pose substantial barriers to sustainable development. Efforts to reduce inequality have been resisted by those who stand to benefit from the current system. Redistribution mechanisms should address inequality at its roots.
GLOBAL BUSINESS
The Lauder Global Business Report | 2025
This edition takes readers on a trip around the globe to showcase the nations, institutions, and individuals doing the work to solve some of society’s most pressing and complex problems. These are instances where collective intelligence is demonstrated in the arrest of opportunities through strategic decision-making skills, visionary leadership, and collaboration to leverage local knowledge for international success.
TECH+SOCIETY
Tech Trends | 2025
The report explores the emergence of trends in three elevating forces: interaction, information, and computation; and grounding forces of business technology, cyber and trust, and core modernization. A preview into a future in which artificial intelligence will be as foundational as electricity to daily businesses and personal lives. A world in which everything will work smarter, faster, and more intuitively.
DIPLOMACY
The Global Risks Report |
2025
This year’s edition of the report – the collective intelligence of over 900 global leaders in both public and private sectors - sheds light on relevant risks and their trajectories revealing the need to work openly and constructively with each other. This will be through an active and honest dialogue followed by meaningful action to create stronger, more resilient societies.
