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International Research Fellowship Opportunity: For West African Researchers under the Queen Elizabeth Scholars Program

Funding is available to support research at the University of Ottawa for three months between now and October 2025. The Open African Innovation Research...

International Research Fellowship Opportunity: For Canadian Researchers under the Queen Elizabeth Scholars Program

Funding is available to support travel and research in an eligible West African country for five or more weeks between now and October 2025....

Fostering Information and Knowledge Access in the Digital Environment: A Situational Analysis of Legal-regulatory...

Principal Investigators:  A/Prof. Dick Kawooya, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina, USA, [email protected]    A/Prof. Tobias Schonwetter, Department of Commercial Law, University of Cape Town,...

Student Position Opening: Digital Communications Assistant for the Open African Innovation Research (AIR) network. 

Student Position: Digital Communications Assistant for the Open African Innovation Research (AIR) network at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa Ontario, Canada Hours per Week:  Flexible...

MENA Observatory on Responsible AI

Open AIR’s North African hub, The Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the American University in Cairo’s Onsi Sawiris School of Business,...

Annual Report 2023-2024

This Open AIR Annual Report outlines the network's core activities in 2023-24 within our two main current initiatives: the Regulation for Innovation programme and...

Open AIR’s Regulation for Innovation Project

Open AIR has just released a video, on our @Afrinnovation YouTube channel, highlighting the network’s current large research programme, “Regulation for Innovation Supporting Sustainable...

Open Opportunities for Globally Inclusive Biomedical Innovation

By Jeremy de Beer Researchers from the Open African Innovation Research network, Open AIR, are investigating root regulatory causes of vaccine inequity and looking toward...

Governance of Data and Data-driven Technology

Authored by: Nagla Rizk, Tobias Schonwetter This Open AIR Working Paper 29 explores governance challenges pertaining to data and data-driven technology, with emphasis on the...

Governance of Public Health Innovation in the Shadow of COVID-19

Authored by: Chidi Oguamanam This Open AIR Working Paper 28 explores innovations in the delivery of universal care to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)...