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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
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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
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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!
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
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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.
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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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@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…
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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
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The Embassy of @Switzerland_SA just posted a reminder about the exciting Wikipedia Primary School Project with our team @UctLaw & @supsi_ch in Switzerland to improve learning material access in primary education. Very fond memories: lnkd.in/drivfPR @AfricanIP @iopensa
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Book Symposium: Desmond Oriakhogba's (@DesyOsas) review of @msamaka's book is next: “Patent Games in the Global South” and the Race for COVID-19 Vaccine: Why Nigeria is Lagging Behind and what Needs to be Done afronomicslaw.org/category/a…
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.@ASSAf_Official develops a Code of Conduct for Research under the Protection of Personal Information Act. I'm pleased to be part of the drafting committee. ASSAf's announcement & call for stakeholder submissions: bit.ly/3ot4QVU @UctLaw @AfricanIP @lawtechlab @UCT_RCI
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In case you missed it, the Leap 4.0: African Perspectives on the #4IR book is finally out! In this book, Open AIR’s @iruten and @caro_ncube wrote a chapter on #IP and tech. This book is also edited by Open AIR’s Erika Kraemer-Mbula! mistra.org.za/mistra-publica…
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New issue: African Journal of Information & Communication (AJIC) incl. article on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Deployments in Africa: Benefits, Challenges & Policy Dimensions wits.ac.za/linkcentre/ajic/a… With @Afrinnovation @LINKCentreWits @AfricanIP @IPChairUCT @StrathCIPIT @A2K4D
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Coming out very soon!!!
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN NIGERIA: Emerging Trends, Theories and Practice...
With @ifeolubiyi.
Foreword by @asein_john DG @copyrightngr
Publisher: Packers Press Ltd, Benin City.
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In case you missed it, check out an overview of the #IP Law Program Offered at our Southern Africa hub @AfricanIP at UCT's Law Faculty, under the auspices of the South African Research Chair: Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development @IPChairUCT youtube.com/watch?v=6jwPaGlT…
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Last day in the office in 2020! Good to have a bit of a break now but I'm already excited about 2021. Thank you to a fantastic team @AfricanIP @UctLaw, to all our partners @Afrinnovation & @IDRC_CRDI etc & our students for exploring new ways of doing things with us. Take care.
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Such a great way to end the year! And I'm pleased to not only be a guest editor but to also have a piece in it -written with @bramvanwiele - on Social Entrepreneurs, Fab Labs & 3D Printing in SA and Kenya. Thanks to the @IDRC_CRDI & @SSHRC_CRSH ! @UctLaw @AfricanIP @lawtechlab
We are delighted to announce that Issue 26 of The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC) has been published. All the six articles feature Open AIR research. Check it out here: wits.ac.za/linkcentre/ajic/a…
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