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.
New Funding for Research on African Innovation and Gender
The Open AIR network has received funding from the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Advanced Scholars Program (QES) to create new opportunities for emerging scholars to explore African innovation through the lens of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
Commemorating 75 Years of the UDHR: Advancing Health Justice in a...
By Bertina Lou
On December 8, 2023, the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was commemorated at the Advancing Health Justice...
Open AIR Welcomes South Africa’s Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation
The Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR) Network recently hosted officials from South Africa’s Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation (DSTI) at the Centre...
WIPO-IGC 45: Bold and Strategic Moves Toward TK and TCE Text(s)
By Chidi Oguamanam
Buoyed by the July 2022 WIPO 62nd General Assembly decision that endorsed a Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources (GR) and Associated Traditional...
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...
The Role of Women and Girls in Unlocking Africa’s Digital Future
By Rosemond Yaa Kpeiku
The Second Africa Summit on Women and Girls in Technology was a three day event in collaboration between the World Wide...
Opportunities from Côte d’Ivoire on Plastic Waste and the Blue Economy
By Ahou Rachel Koumi
In 2019, my niece and I enjoyed a two-day outing to the famous beaches of Assinie, in Côte d'Ivoire. I have fond...
Open AIR Research into 4th Industrial Revolution Technologies and Artificial Intelligence:...
By Nagham El Houssamy and Nadine Weheba
This is part three in a three part series. For part one, click here. For part two, click here.
Monumental advances in technology are...
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 think that all roads leading to creativity and innovation are paved with intellectual property (IP) laws and institutions. Put differently, the level of creativity and innovation in a society is dependent solely on how we tinker with and enforce IP laws. This ‘IP parochialism’, as I call it, is manifest in the conference program. Of course, the response would be that the conference was solely about IP and as such there was no need to look beyond IP. This is an erroneous view.
