Archive for July, 2009

Obama’s Africa Policy – A Response to the Ghana Speech

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

It was another eloquent and powerful speech. That was President Barack Obama’s speech, laying out his Africa policy, delivered to the Parliament of Ghana today morning. In the main, Obama outlined four key planks of the United States of America’s (U.S.A) policy on Africa during his administration. The four planks are:

  • Good governance.
  • Supporting development that provides opportunity for more people.
  • Strengthening public health.
  • Addressing conflict.

If these were the only big things in the speech, it would have been disappointing.

Book Launch: Implementing the WIPO’s Development Agenda

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Today, 10 July 2009, another Geneva Seminar on Development Research (GSDR), IQsensato’s flagship seminar series takes place in Geneva. The seminar will launch and discuss the twelve-chapter book “Implementing the WIPO’s Development Agenda“, edited by Jeremy de Beer with a Foreword by Daniel Gervais and an Afterword by Christopher May, from Lancaster University.