WIPO 33rd IGC Session Puts Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCEs) on the...
The WIPO-IGC recently commenced the next installment of its deliberations for a text-based instrument that focuses on the protection of traditional cultural expressions (TCEs), pursuant to its mandate. There are two scheduled forums on TCEs beginning Feb 27-March 3 and to be completed in June 2017, which will round off the Committee’s work for the 2016-17 biennium.
Place-Based Branding for Locally Specific Products
Published by Open AIRPublication Date: 2014 Download: Briefing Note: Place-Based Branding for Locally Specific Products (392KB)
This 2014 Briefing Note outlines findings from Open AIR...
The Nollywood Phenomenon: Innovation, Openness and Technical Opportunism in the Modeling...
Authored by: Chidi Oguamanam
Abstract: The Nigerian movie industry, known as Nollywood, has attracted an impressive degree of research interest since its debut in the 1990s,...
Attention aux accords internationaux d’investissement !!
Par Abdelhamid Benhmade
À quelques semaines près, l’Organisation mondiale du commerce tiendra sa douzième conférence ministérielle pour discuter de plusieurs dossiers tant complexes qu’épineux, entre...
Better metrics, better policies for knowledge and innovation in Africa
By Nagla Rizk
The Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) leads the research on metrics, laws and policies within the Open African Innovation Research network...
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...
Expedited COVID-19 R&D: Indigenous Knowledge and ABS Imperative
With the world on edge as the COVID-19 crisis progresses, the scientific community has sprung into gear in search of an effective treatment. Research and Development (R&D) is progressing at unprecedented speeds. Amidst this rapid development, traditional knowledge plays a significant role in scientific endeavours. Through traditional knowledge, medical researchers can gain guidance and inspiration and bypass prolonged and expensive scatter-gun approaches to R&D.
Artificial Intelligence in Africa: An Overview of ongoing Open AIR Activities
By Nagham El Houssamy and Nadine Weheba
This is part one in a three part series. For part two, click here. Part three can be...
Three Centuries and Counting: The Emergence and Development of Intellectual Property...
Authored by: Caroline Ncube. This chapter provides an historical account of the development of IP on the African continent which highlights how the introduction of IP systems and their transposed legislation displaced existing knowledge governance systems and entrenched a primarily extractor-biased IP system.
Trickles and Spouts: Translating Research on Intellectual Properties to Women’s Entrepreneurship
By Esther Ekong
I am currently conducting my PhD research about Nigerian women entrepreneurs in ongoing global debates about the role of intellectual property (IP)...
