Celebrating UP's Exceptional Young Researcher Award winners: Dr Chimere Anabanti, Dr Abe Kasonga, Dr Samkelo Malgas, Prof Vukosi Marivate, Prof Adrino Mazenda, Prof Kgomotso Mokoala, & Dr Chijioke Okorie! Their ground-breaking research paves the way for academic excellence at UP.

Full advert at law.uct.ac.za/ip-chair/artic…

Delighted to have been promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria effective 1 Jan 2025!💃🏽 What a journey to here & God continues to be my strength & ever-present help. Thankful for my family, friends, mentors & colleagues who have supported me. 🙏🏾

Grateful for all we have achieved so far; excited about what’s next!

Let’s go!!!🥰

Yes!!!! Let’s go! 💃🏽

INVITATION: You’re invited to our: #WorldIPDay 2025 (Register to attend in person or online: forms.gle/Ti9qpEfsZMPNcb…) & Africa, Law and [Emerging] Technologies Policy Hackathon Demo Day 2025 (Register to attend in person or online: forms.gle/23bhnAxtTRmcBN…). Details in the flyers.

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Awesomest thing!

Proud and pumped!!

Honoured to be a Keynote Speaker at #COSAA2025, happening 3–4 June 2025, hosted by Strathmore CIPIT. Let’s shape Africa’s AI future. Details � aiconference.cipit.org #AIinAfrica #LetsTalkAI

AI in Africa for Africa Register to join us virtually 👉lnkd.in/dHd_FUae About COSAA 👉 aiconference.cipit.org #COSAA2025 #AIinAfrica #LetstalkAI

📢 Highlights from our #PolicyHackathon + #WorldIPDay2025 events are now on our blog! 🚀 Dive into how students are rethinking IP, law, and innovation in SA’s creative economy. Policy Hackathon: datasciencelawlab.africa/resourcess/blo… Data science meets music law: datasciencelawlab.africa/resourcess/dat…

📘 The full reports from our 2025 Policy Hackathon [zenodo.org/records/155701… ] and WorldIPDay 2025 Exhibition [zenodo.org/records/155700…] are now available!   Edited by Chijioke Okorie & Takudzwa Matekwe, these docs highlight law, tech & innovation in action.

Last month, our Chijioke Okorie spoke with Data Science for Social Impact’s Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 and Dr Chidi on navigating copyright in African data science & NLP projects. 📊 Real project insights 🧠 Legal strategies ⚖️ What law should change 🔗 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=ZQc-I4…

How should IP feature in AI innovation? That is THE question…

We now have a Plain Language Explainer & a Summary Sheet for the NOODL License! These resources were created by our Chijioke Okorie & Strathmore CIPIT's Melissa Omino & explains the key provisions of the License in plain language: licensingafricandatasets.com/resources

Today, Melissa Omino & I will be presenting our paper titled “Inequitable openness in licenses for sharing African data and datasets: The Nwulite Obodo Open Data License (NOODL) solution” at the LSGL conference 2025. Read the NOODL story here: zenodo.org/records/158083…

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Our Yeukai Pedzisa was at Day 1 of the Law Schools Global League Academic Conference 2025 where Prof Chijioke Okorie & Melissa Omino presented their award-winning paper on the #NOODL License. Yeukai pens an event report: datasciencelawlab.africa/presentation-o…

Congratulations THE Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊!!!