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 relationships.
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...
Empowering Indigenous Craft Women in Africa
By Desmond Oriakhogba
As an Open AIR NERG and QEScholar, I have been conducting research since June 2018 on the empowerment of indigenous craft women...
40th WIPO IGC: Mixed Impressions as Experts Seek a New Mandate
By Chidi Oguamanam, cross-posted from ABS Canada.
Pre-session
Strategy Meetings
Experts and delegates gathered in Geneva for the 40th session of the WIPO IGC, which commenced on...
My First Week of COVID-19 in Town: a Week with More...
By Bertha Vallejo
I am an Open AIR QES Fellow with the University of Johannesburg, currently in The Netherlands, due to COVID-19/coronavirus. I have expertise...
How Designing Crops for Global Food Security and Open AIR are...
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....
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...
Nigerian National Workshop on Research Grant Writing and Administration
By Nan Warner
A number of senior members of the Open AIR Network participated in the Nigerian National Workshop on Research Grant Writing and Administration,...
Gender Equality and Women Empowerment in Southwest States of Nigeria
By Esther Adekunbi
Gender equality
is a very important issue in today’s world, while also a fraught debate. Gender
equality can be achieved when men and women...
Open AIR Presents at Fourth Global Congress on IP and the...
By Victor Nzomo
In the midst of two decades of TRIPS and three decades of openness, more than 400 delegates from over 50 countries converged...













