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A coalition of academic and civil society organizations are co-organizing a week of debates on copyright and access to knowledge in South Africa, beginning on January 23rd. The organizers for these events are

The cohosts for these events are 

• American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
• University of Pretoria, Future Africa
• University of Cape Town, IP Unit
• Strathmore University, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law
• South Centre
• Electronic Information for Libraries
• Masakhane
• Wikimedia Foundation

On January 23 and 24, the University of Pretoria will host events exploring the following topics:

• Natural language processing, 
• Climate modeling
• A right to research in African Law
• African leadership on the right to research

On January 26 and 27, the University of Cape Town will host events on these topics:

• Digitizing African heritage
• Health research
• African AI and digital humanities
• A right to research in African law
• WIPO, AfCFTA and future work on IP

For more information see the Re-Create South Africa page. 

Register here. 

These events are made possible with support from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin