About Me

Dick Kawooya

International Fellowship Program

2006-2007

Project title: Copyright and E-Resources in Africa's Institutions of Higher Learning: the case of selected Ugandan Institutions

Bio-sketch:

• Adjunct Instructor School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2006-07)
• Currently doctoral candidate at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, USA. Broad research interest is IPR in informal sectors in the African context focusing on the dynamic relationship between IPR (copyright) and informal sector activities in non-Western poor societies. Doctoral research (dissertation) explores Ugandan traditional musicians construction of ownership.
• Founding member of the African Copyright and Access to Information Alliance – ACAIA (originally African Copyright Forum: http://www.nlu.go.ug/acfconf.htm). ACAIA promotes wide access to information and knowledge for education, research, training, and library services through open access/content as well as constructive engagement with propriety/protected sources.
• Fellow (2006-07) of the Open Society Institute (OSI) and the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University (CEU), Budapest-Hungary. Fellowship research focuses on impact of copyright on representation of African knowledge and access to general knowledge (e-resources).
• Member Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Copyright Expert Group ( http://www.col.org/programmes/infoknowledge/CopyrightDoc_200505.pdf).
• National Copyright Expert representing the Consortium of Ugandan University Libraries (CUUL) to eIFL.IP, since 2005. He represented eIFL members to the second session of the Inter-Governmental Intersession Meeting on the Development Agenda for WIPO June 2005.
• Served on the executive of Uganda Library Association as Editor (1999-2001). He continues working with various initiatives and organizations promoting wider access to information in development context.