Empowering Indigenous Craft Women in Africa

By Desmond Oriakhogba As an Open AIR NERG and QEScholar, I have been conducting research since June 2018 on the empowerment of indigenous craft women...

A Day Out in Wanyori Community

The purpose of my visit was to seek the permission of the community members to conduct research in their community and to fix an appointment with the women. It was a short visit since I needed to introduce myself to the women and also brief them on the purpose of the visit.

Invention in Africa: Open AIR shares its Model at CAAS 2019

By Uchenna Felicia Ugwu Africa is becoming recognized as an important hub of informal innovation, which should not be excluded or ignored by formal systems for IP...

Report on the 4th AfricaLics Conference, Tanzania

By Esther Ekong Africa is making her way fearlessly into the global center stage as new models of innovation, aiming to not only address the needs of...

Alemshet Addisalem (Alex)

Alemshet Addisalem (Alex) is pursuing his Ph.D. studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. His Ph.D. project explores the intersection of big...

Anthony Onunekwu Oguguo (Tony)

Anthony Onunekwu Oguguo (Tony) is an LLM student at the University of Ottawa. His area of academic interest is health law/ public policy, and...

Khadiga Hassan 

Khadiga Hassan completed her undergraduate studies at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Science in Economics with Honors. Upon graduating, she...