The Many Faces of Scholarly Communications
By Nagham El Houssamy
The FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute was held at the University of California San Diego from 31 July until 4 August 2017....
Historic Gathering of Africa’s Open Science Hardware (OSH) Innovators – the...
By Chris Armstrong
Open AIR was privileged to be a supporting partner of the inaugural AfricaOSH Summit, held 13-15 April 2018 at the Kumasi Hive...
Open AIR Research into 4th Industrial Revolution Technologies and Artificial Intelligence:...
By Nagham El Houssamy and Nadine Weheba
This is part two in a three part series. For part one, click here. For part three, click...
Contributions des markers d’ici et d’ailleurs à la lutte contre la...
Par Ahou Rachel Koumi et Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou
Ceci constitue la deuxième partie d’une série de trois. Pour la première partie, cliquez ici. La...
Maker spaces in developing countries: Sites of innovation despite simultaneous challenges
by Mohamed Hosny
In the past few years, there have been several initiatives to help entrepreneurs introduce new creative and innovative products that break from...
IP Implications for Food Security in Africa
Cross-posted from U of S Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre
By Uchenna Ugwu
Can you tell me a bit about yourself?
I am a PhD student...
Bridging the Gender Gap between contributions to STEM Fields and their...
By Natalie Chodoriwsky
The Government of Canada’s 2019 Intellectual
Property Strategy has committed to “conducting IP awareness and use
survey to identify how Canadians understand and...
Gender, IP, and Innovation: Open AIR’s Future Research
The Open AIR network seeks to bring, among other things, a gendered perspective to our research. We are exploring the nexus between feminist literature, intellectual property, information technology, and innovation; connecting these approaches into the network’s future priorities.
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...
Africa and COVID-19
By Chidi Oguamanam
As an African and a Canadian, I
inhabit an observatory. I am a resident in two worlds of blunt contrasts. On a good
note,...













