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🎉 It's mAkE first anniversary!
🔧 #makeafricaeu has progressed collectively to enable #distributed #small #scale #manufacturing in #Africa & #Europe via an active & diverse #community of #DigitalInnovationHubs.
🎥 Watch the full video 👉
makeafricaeu.org/make-first-…
#H2020
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📌 Register for the launch of the African Maker Magazine to learn the powerful stories from #makerspaces here ➡️➡️ makeafricaeu.org/events/afri…
#makeafricaeu #H2020 @amnetwork___
@weareGIG @fablabbcn @fabcityglobal @AfricaOSH @GreentecF @Afrinnovation
Yup! we are bringing it again.
Catch amazing stories from the makerspaces as they take us through their journey in making impacts in the lives of people in their community.
Register via the link ⬇️ and join us in launching this amazing workpiece.
bit.ly/AfricanMaker23
#AMN
UCT IP Unit retweeted
An important @Hubiquitous2021 online event (9 Feb.) for forging connections between African and European #DigitalInnovationHubs
@makeafricaeu @AfricanIP #makeafricaeu #H2020
Interesting opportunity of a #workshop to bring together European and African #DigitalInnovationHubs, happening in 2 days👇
#makeafricaeu #H2020
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Open AIR is honoured to be featured in the 2023 edition of The African Maker magazine, to be launched later this month.
@amnetwork___ @makeafricaeu @AfricanIP
#makeafricaeu #H2020
💥 Register until today for the launch of the African Maker Magazine 2023, a yearly publication to promote #makerspaces and #maker activities by @amnetwork___
Sign up at 👉makeafricaeu.org/events/afri…
#makeafricaeu #H2020 @weareGIG @fabcityglobal @Afrinnovation @fablabbcn
UCT IP Unit retweeted
Happening NOW: @DesyOsas talking about the intersection between AI and IP - and the questionable DABUS patent in SA in particular - at the @UctLaw iNtaka Centre for Law & Technology. Also streamed live at bit.ly/3qYaBOV @lawtechlab @AfricanIP @IPChairUCT
As @WIPO 's IGC meets this week, please have a look again at our #multilateralmatters blog post concerning the GA's very recent decision to hold a diplomatic conference on genetic resources & associated TK by 2024 👇 @WendWendland
❗️Exciting news: After a deadlock for many years, WIPO's General Assembly has decided that by 2024, a diplomatic conference on genetic resources & associated TK should take place, possibly in SA. Prof @WendWendland reflects on the GA's "momentous" decision ip-unit.org/2022/multilatera…
❗️Exciting news: After a deadlock for many years, WIPO's General Assembly has decided that by 2024, a diplomatic conference on genetic resources & associated TK should take place, possibly in SA. Prof @WendWendland reflects on the GA's "momentous" decision ip-unit.org/2022/multilatera…
We've been quiet for a while but are back 👋 with a sobering #multilateralmatters post by Dr Bonginkosi Shozi on how unequal power relations & the agenda of high income countries led to a disappointing @wto #ipwaiver decision ip-unit.org/2022/multilatera… #COVID19 @UctLaw @WendWendland
Our new #multilateralmatters blogpost is out now! Thanks once again to Prof @WendWendland for his insights. This time, he explains what "consensus" means in multilateral negotiations & whether it produces good agreements: ip-unit.org/2021/multilatera…
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Decolonising AI? Dr Rachel Adams delivers the 2021 Ben Beinart Memorial Lecture on this topic -followed by Dr Adams in conversation with @divinefuh (@huma_africa) & @TanveerJeewa. Tues 30 Nov - register at bit.ly/3bVZT3S. Supported by @webberwentzel - join us!
Our latest #multilateralmatters blog post is up- with further reflections on the BBNJ (biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction) negotiations. Thanks @WendWendland & guest authors Carla Bengoa Rojas & @PagYendu for sharing your insights ip-unit.org/2021/multilatera… @UctLaw
The High Court declared our current (c)Act unconstitutional, infringing rights of the blind & visually impaired. The Court has "read in" s19D of the (c) Bill to allow for better access. Order to be confirmed by @ConCourtSA 👏 @BlindSA_NGO & @SECTION27news blindsa.org.za/2021/09/21/de…
It's fantastic to have our new student research assistants on board; already delivering great work. Welcome to the IP Unit team, Dr. Nathalie & Gabriel (LLM), Shréya (LLB) & Hanani (PhD)! Check out their profiles: ip-unit.org/people-2/ @UctLaw @Afrinnovation @lawtechlab
Check out our new #MultilateralMatters blogpost, this time written by guest contributor Charlene Musiza. On invitation by @WendWendland, she explores some conditions & factors that made it possible to conclude the Marrakesh Treaty so quickly: ip-unit.org/2021/multilatera… @cee_divine
UCT IP Unit retweeted
Last 2021 #copyx session "at UCT" tonight. I enjoyed it thoroughly & taking it online meant that we had many participants from other parts of South Africa, Africa & overseas. Thanks @UCT_Law_at_work !! @AfricanIP @UctLaw @BKCHarvard @lawtechlab @HarvardOnline #UCTWillRiseAgain
UCT IP Unit retweeted
My Book, the eagerly awaited Copyright, Collective Management Organisations and Competition in Africa is finally out. Many thanks my PhD Supervisors @caro_ncube @tobyschonwetter for mentorship. To @IPChairUCT @AfricanIP @Afrinnovation @UctLaw @danwood_chirwa @Juta_ZA for support.
UCT IP Unit retweeted
Pleased to share my piece in @JIPLP discussing provisions of the Geneva Act that could make it attractive to African countries and considerations for international GI registration for Oku White Honey from Cameroon!
@AfricanIP
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UCT IP Unit retweeted
@WendWendland 's latest #MultilateralMatters blogpost is up on the @AfricanIP website, this time on the intersection of IP and Indigenous names, words & symbols: ip-unit.org/2021/multilatera…
UCT IP Unit retweeted
Congratulations to our #QEScholars @QJerban for successfully defending her PhD thesis, “Does Traditional Knowledge Have Gender? Unmasking the Experience of Female Traditional Knowledge-Holders in the Production of Iranian Saffron and Handwoven Carpets.”
Well done Dr. @QJerban