Harnessing Digital Agriculture to Advance African Food Security: Open AIR Research Charts the Way Forward
By Uchenna Felicia Ugwu Achieving global food security will require innovation. Processes like plant phenotyping and technologies like digital imaging are examples…
Open AIR NERGs successfully defend PhD theses
This fall, two Open AIR New and Emerging Researchers Uchenna Ugwu and Sileshi Hirko successfully defended their PhD theses at the University of Ottawa. Food Security…
Open Data Brings Farmers and Researchers Together
How can farmers and researchers use open data to work together for food security? Open data and other forms of open access to knowledge help facilitate these re…
Canada’s 2017 Copyright Review: Reflections on the Congress 2017
By Sileshi Hirko Introduction The last week of May 2017 was a week of great academic activity in Canada, Congress 2017. This event is run by the Federation for…
Open innovation in development: Integrating theory and practice across open science, open access, and open data
Authored by Jeremy de Beer, this article integrates the concepts of open innovation and open development. It extends the theory of open development beyond the field…
Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (ARIA VIII)
Authored by: Caroline Ncube, Tobias Schonwetter, Jeremy de Beer and Chidi Oguamanam. To assist trade policymakers in the development of a framework, this paper explores…
Open Innovation in Development: Integrating Theory and Practice Across Open Science, Open Education, and Open Data
Authored by: de Beer This article integrates the concepts of open innovation and open development. It extends the theory of open development beyond the field of…
Open Data and Ownership at the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) Summit
By Jeremy Baarbé (Picture: courtesy of Drawnalism) Open data has the potential to end global hunger. Farmers, government ministers, NGOs, and private firms gathered…
How Designing Crops for Global Food Security and Open AIR are Working Together
By Meghan Blom Open AIR aims to understand how open collaborative innovation can help businesses scale up and seize the opportunities of the global knowledge economy.…
Open AIR NERG Attends WIPO-WTO Colloquium
Just last month, I had the opportunity to participate in the 13th WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property held at World Intellectual Property Organization…
Is Creativity and Innovation All About Intellectual Property?
In the recently concluded ‘African Ministerial Conference: Intellectual Property for an Emerging Africa’ organized in part by WIPO (here), one cannot help but…
Open Innovation in Africa: Current Realities, Future Scenarios, and Scalable Solutions
Authored by: de Beer,Armstrong,Elahi,Kraemer-Mbula,Ncube,Oguamanam,Rizk,Rutenberg,Schonwetter,Kawooya