Bringing access and benefit sharing into the digital age

Bringing Copyright into the Information Age

The ABAIR Initiative: Bringing Spoken Irish into the Digital Space

The processes of language demise take hold when a language ceases to belong to the mainstream of life’s activities. Digital communication technology increasingly pervades all aspects of modern life. Languages not digitally ‘available’ are ever more marginalised, whereas a digital presence often yields unexpected opportunities to integrate the language into the mainstream. The ABAIR initiative e...

The BubbleFish: Bringing Digital Document Management into the Physical World

This paper introduces the BubbleFish project, in terms of the main idea, related work, and a set of possible prototypical implementations. The BubbleFish is a digital document manager that uses Augmented Reality to let its users maintain digital documents in the physical environment, as an alternative to the currently dominating file/folder approach in desktop based computer systems. The user m...

Regulating Bioprospecting: Institutions for Drug Research, Access and Benefit-Sharing

T policy brief summarizes the main arguments and conclusions of a forthcoming book by United Nations University Press, which examines the regulation of bioprospecting for drug research from an interdisciplinary law and economics perspective. Bioprospecting was once touted as a promising opportunity for collaborative ventures in biotechnology-based research and development (R&D) between the gene...

Bringing Classroom-Based Assessment into the EFL classroom

This  paper  describes  how  English  as  a  Foreign  Language  (EFL)  teachers  can  bring  reliable, valid, user-friendly assessment into their classrooms, and thus improve the quality of learning that  occurs  there.  Based  on  the  experience  of  the  author  as  a  an  EFL  teacher  and  teacher-trainer, it is suggested that the promotion and development of autonomy, intrinsic motivation...