Open AIR Research
Open AIR is a unique collaborative network of researchers spread across 22 African countries, Canada, and elsewhere in the world, answering two overarching questions:
Open AIR’s “Regulation for Innovation” Research Programme
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 Development Goals”. The video also features our researchers’ activities, in support of the programme, at the Transforming Africa conference in...
Open Opportunities for Globally Inclusive Biomedical Innovation
By Jeremy de Beer
Researchers from the Open African Innovation Research network, Open AIR, are investigating root regulatory causes of vaccine inequity and looking toward open innovation for solutions to more inclusive and sustainable ways to promote global health equity.
A cluster of field-building studies...
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 to address disparities in health equity. One problem COVID-19 exposed is inequity in the global intellectual property system. Major concerns...
Shaping the Future of Makerspaces in Africa and Europe: Recommendations for Policy Makers
The EU Horizon 2020-funded African European Maker Innovation Ecosystem (mAkE) Project, in which Open AIR is an African partner, has published its flagship policy report, Shaping the Future of Makerspaces in Africa and Europe: Recommendations for Policy Makers. The document puts forward the following five policy recommendations:
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Policy Support for Makerspaces in Africa and Europe: mAkE Project Publishes Recommendations
By Chris Armstrong
The EU Horizon 2020-funded African European Maker Innovation Ecosystem (mAkE) Project, in which Open AIR is an African partner, has published its flagship policy report, Shaping the Future of Makerspaces in Africa and Europe: Recommendations for Policy Makers. The document puts forward the following...