The real measure of the success of the work of the ACA2K project and this book will, however, be the extent to which it challenges researchers, scholars, policymakers, civil society, industry players and other stakeholders in the international copyright system, including international organisations such as WIPO, to work to bring meaning to phrases like ‘IP is not an end in itself ’. The various di [...] The first of the three research methods, a legal/doctrinal review of copyright law in each of the eight study countries, was at the heart of the research project. [...] By tentatively identifying in early 2008 who the boundary partners were for country teams, for the network as a whole and for the project management, ACA2K members were both designing the project (figuring out who to interview for the research and who to reach with the research results) and at the same time developing the monitoring framework (these same boundary partners would be the people/insti [...] ACA2K accordingly sought to mainstream gender in the project in three ways: by building network members’ awareness of and capacity to interrogate, gender dynamics in the context of copyright and learning materials; by building gender into the design of the project’s research data collection and reporting; and by trying to monitor gender elements as part of the project’s outcome mapping monit [...] These network/researcher empowerment efforts carried on through the finalisation of the ACA2K Methodology guide in mid-2008,21 the Principal Investigators’ feedback on draft country reports in late 2008, the Cairo mid- project workshop in 2009, the feedback on the final country reports in mid-2009 and the writing up of outcome mapping project monitoring journals at the end of 2009.
Authors
C. Armstrong, J. de Beer, D. Kawooya, Chris Armstrong, Jeremy De Beer, Sisule Musungu, Khaled Fourati
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- Published in association with the International Development Research Centre, the Shuttleworth Foundation and the LINK Centre, Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM), University of the Witwatersrand"--T.p This book is a result of an international and interdisciplinary research project known as the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project"--Acknowledgments Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- About the contributors 12
- Foreword 14
- Acronyms 16
- Chapter 1: Introduction 20
- 1.1 The importance of improving African education systems 20
- 1.2 Connecting education with perspectives on copyright 22
- 1.3 Existing research on copyright and education 24
- 1.4 The ACA2K research project 25
- 1.5 Research objectives 26
- 1.6 Research methods, project design, monitoring 27
- 1.7 ACA2K and gender 33
- 1.8 Research results 36
- Chapter 2: Egypt 41
- 2.1 Background 41
- 2.2 Doctrinal analysis 45
- 2.3 Qualitative analysis 60
- 2.4 Conclusions and recommendations 69
- Chapter 3: Ghana 76
- 3.1 Background 76
- 3.2 Doctrinal analysis 79
- 3.3 Qualitative analysis 88
- 3.4 Conclusions and recommendations 96
- Chapter 4: Kenya 102
- 4.1 Background 102
- 4.2 Doctrinal analysis 105
- 4.3 Qualitative analysis 123
- 4.4 Gender-specific findings 133
- 4.5 Conclusions and recommendations 137
- Chapter 5: Morocco 145
- 5.1 Background 145
- 5.2 Doctrinal analysis 150
- 5.3 Qualitative analysis 165
- 5.4 Conclusions and recommendations 173
- Chapter 6: Mozambique 181
- 6.1 Background 181
- 6.2 Doctrinal analysis 187
- 6.3 Qualitative analysis 201
- 6.4 Conclusions and recommendations 211
- Chapter 7: Senegal 219
- 7.1 Background 219
- 7.2 Doctrinal analysis 225
- 7.3 Qualitative analysis 236
- 7.4 Conclusions and recommendations 244
- Chapter 8: South Africa 250
- 8.1 Background 250
- 8.2 Doctrinal analysis 254
- 8.3 Qualitative analysis 271
- 8.4 Conclusions and recommendations 287
- Chapter 9: Uganda 300
- 9.1 Background 300
- 9.2 Doctrinal analysis 302
- 9.3 Qualitative analysis 312
- 9.4 Conclusions and recommendations 328
- Chapter 10: Summary and conclusions 336
- 10.1 Introduction 336
- 10.2 Doctrinal research findings 336
- 10.3 Qualitative research findings 350
- 10.4 Copyright and education in Africa: the road ahead 359
- Afterword 373
- Index 376
- A 376
- B 376
- C 376
- D 376
- E 377
- F 378
- G 378
- H 378
- I 378
- J 379
- K 379
- L 380
- M 380
- N 381
- O 382
- P 382
- Q 382
- R 382
- S 382
- T 384
- U 384
- W 385
