Centre News

On 25 September, former Director of the Traditional Knowledge Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization Wend Wendland will deliver a lecture on the landmark World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge, which was adopted in May 2024. He will address the treaty’s significance in policy making and knowledge governance. The talk is part of the Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property series, hosted by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University (PIJIP). It also serves as the inaugural event for the newly launched Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance (see announcement below, in PDF).

The Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance has been researching cases of Computational Research (or Text and Data Mining) aimed at public interest outcomes in Africa, Latin America and elsewhere. From a health chatbot in South Africa to a culturally-sensitive LLM for Chile and Latin America, we document the work of AI developers, especially in the Global South. This is part of our work to analyse whether and how copyright and AI policies need to contain provisions which consider the social impact of AI. See our Case Studies on Text and Data Mining.

It is official – the Centre on Knowledge Governance will be launching in the coming months. In September and October 2025 we expect to publish some of our new research, including our case studies of Computational Research and AI for Good in the Global South. In November and December we will be present at the upcoming WIPO meetings, including the CDIP and SCCR47. Watch this space for announcements and for special events in Geneva and online. See our calendar for all upcoming events: https://knowledgegov.org/events/