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,...
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...
Reconciling Intellectual Property Rights and African Development: The Right to Development...
By Uchenna Felicia Ugwu
In September 2017, the Thabo Mbeki Foundation and the Centre for Human Rights (CHR), Faculty of Law University of Pretoria gathered together...
Egypt’s New Investment Law: Creating Better Opportunities for Small Businesses?
By Sarah El Saeed
The Egyptian Government has begun in pushing through a fiscal and monetary reform plan that includes various unpopular austerity measures. In...
Financing of Innovation
By Eslam Shaaban
For decades, Kodak was a global giant in the photography industry all over the world. Over the past decade, however, their...
Open AIR’s Sileshi Hirko wins competitive grant
Mr. Sileshi Hirko, a PhD candidate in the Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa, has won the Civil Society Scholars Award (CSSA)....
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....
Open AIR Expansion into Morocco
By Sara Yassine
Over the past six months, the Research Laboratory Entrepreneurship and Management of Organizations (LABO-EMO) and Open AIR have been looking at ways...
Africa’s Maker Movement: An Overview of Ongoing Research
Makerspaces are places where people gather to build projects, learn new technologies, and develop entrepreneurial opportunities. Open AIR is conducting research on makerspaces across the African continent.
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.
