Shifting Horizons Conference
By Michael Dao
On March 28th, 2019, the University of Ottawa
hosted the Shifting
Horizons: Managing Your Research Data Conference, a day-long series of
workshops for researchers. I...
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...
Open AIR NERG Attends WIPO-WTO Colloquium
Just last month, I had the opportunity to participate in the 13th WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property held at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland from 13 to 24 June, 2016. I am beyond thankful for this scholarship and enjoyed an intense two week programme, covering eighteen substantive topics touching on all areas of intellectual property (IP) law. There were thirty-nine experts from WIPO, WTO, WHO, UNFCCC, UPOV, NGOs ,and industry who took part in the Colloquium as speakers and I was among twenty-six participants selected from approximately 160 applicants from developing countries around the world.
Canada’s 2017 Copyright Review: Reflections on the Congress 2017
By Sileshi Hirko
Introduction
The last week of May 2017 was a week of great academic activity in Canada, Congress 2017. This event is run by...
Le Big Pharma a-t-il raison de freiner des quatre fers ?
Par Abdelhamid Benhmade
Sans pour autant être d’un optimisme béat ni sombrer dans un pessimisme démesuré, il est clair que la dérogation aux droits de...
Access to COVID-19 Vaccines: the Patent Freeze Proposal and a New...
By Chidi Oguamanam and Sarah O’Flaherty
The State of Affairs
As the vaccination rate rises in Canada and other developed nations, developing countries globally continue to record an...
Open Data and Ownership at the Global Open Data for Agriculture...
By Jeremy Baarbé
(Picture: courtesy of Drawnalism)
Open data has the potential to end global hunger. Farmers, government ministers, NGOs, and private firms gathered to collaborate...
Focusing on Indigenous Data Sovereignty as Part of ‘Shifting Horizons’
By Toni Valenti
On Thursday, March 28th,
Open AIR attended the Indigenous Data Sovereignty panel at the Shifting Horizons research data
conference at the University of Ottawa....
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...
Genetic Resources, Justice and Reconciliation: Canada and Global Access and Benefit...
Edited by: Chidi Oguamanam. When the oral history of a medicinal plant as a genetic resource is used to develop a blockbuster drug, how is the contribution of Indigenous Peoples recognized in research and commercialization? What other ethical, legal, and policy issues come into play? Is it accurate for countries to self-identify as users or providers of genetic resources?
