From Space to Soil: The Potential of Space-based Technologies for African...
Authored by: Ola Mirzoeva
This Working Paper 33 explores the potential for space-based technologies to support African agricultural productivity and to address economic transformation hindered...
Foresight Research on African Innovation: Pathways and Signposts to Scenarios for...
Authored by: Jeremy de Beer, Shirin Elahi, Yvonne Ndelle
This Working Paper 30 sets out the details of Open AIR's 2010-13 scenario-building process and the...
Appel à soumissions : Perspectives africaines sur la régulation de l’innovation
Le Réseau Open AIR est heureux d’annoncer un appel à soumissions pour un atelier international et une publication sur le thème de la régulation...
Annual Report 2024-25
This Open AIR Annual Report sets out the activities and outputs of the network from mid-2024 to mid-2025. During this period, deliverables were determined...
Fostering Information and Knowledge Access in the Digital Environment: A Situational...
Principal Investigators:
A/Prof. Dick Kawooya, School of Information Science, University of South Carolina, USA, Kawooya@sc.edu
A/Prof. Tobias Schonwetter, Department of Commercial Law, University of Cape Town,...
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...
Open Opportunities for Globally Inclusive Biomedical Innovation
By Jeremy de Beer
See the Biomedical Innovation Project Archive Here:
Researchers from the Open African Innovation Research network, Open AIR, are investigating root regulatory causes...
Governance of Data and Data-driven Technology
Authored by: Nagla Rizk, Tobias Schonwetter
This Open AIR Working Paper 29 explores governance challenges pertaining to data and data-driven technology, with emphasis on the...
Governance of Public Health Innovation in the Shadow of COVID-19
Authored by: Chidi Oguamanam
This Open AIR Working Paper 28 explores innovations in the delivery of universal care to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)...
2024 Global Health Security Conference Event
By Charlotte Galvani and Jeremy de Beer
Negotiations toward a new international treaty on pandemic preparedness and response have failed to reflect a rights-based consensus...












