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:
Fostering Information and Knowledge Access in the Digital Environment: A Situational Analysis of Legal-regulatory Frameworks in ARIPO Region
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, South Africa, tobias.schonwetter@uct.ac.za
Co-Investigators:
A/Prof. Desmond Oriakhogba, Department of Private Law, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, doriakhogba@uwc.ac.za
Dr. Anthony Kakooza, Lecturer,...
MENA Observatory on Responsible AI
Open AIR’s North African hub, The Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) at the American University in Cairo’s Onsi Sawiris School of Business, developed and launched the MENA Observatory on Responsible AI in February 2024. The Observatory will serve as a hub for...
Annual Report 2023-2024
This Open AIR Annual Report outlines the network's core activities in 2023-24 within our two main current initiatives: the Regulation for Innovation programme and the Inclusive Biomedical Innovation project. The Regulation for Innovation programme is focused on fostering improved African participation in policy processes...
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 Development Goals”. The video also features our researchers’ activities, in support of the project, 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...