Name: Sisule F. Musungu
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Web Site: http://www.iqsensato.org/
Bio: Sisule is the President of IQsensato and Managing Director of IQsensato Consulting. He is a leading researcher and policy analyst on the development dimensions of intellectual property (IP), innovation, trade and innovation. He is also an expert on human rights law and has research interests on climate change and energy. Full bio available here.
Posts by Sisule F. Musungu:
Discussion Forum for the World Trade Report 2012
December 8th, 2011Sisule F. Musungu – The World Trade Organization (WTO) has launched a discussion forum for the 2012 World Trade Report. The 2012 Report will focus on”Looking beyond international cooperation on tariffs”. The aim of the discussion forum is to encourage debate on the topic of the Report and researchers, policy-makers and others interested in the topic are invited to submit short articles (of no more than 1,000 words) on the topic and/or to submit views on the articles submitted by others. WTO Secretariat staff Marc Bacchetta and Cosimo Beverelli have done a short paper providing background to the Report’s theme. The topic for the 2011 Report was “The WTO and preferential trade agreements: from co-existence to coherence”.
Visiting Researchers 2013 – Call for proposals at Brocher Centre, Geneva
December 8th, 2011Sisule F. Musungu – The Geneva based Brocher Foundation has released a call for proposalsfor visiting researchers for 2013. The deadline for applications is 20th January 2012. The Brocher Foundation residencies last between one and four months between February and May or between July and October. Successful applicants get a workplace and an accommodation in the Foundation’s lakeside premises. Breakfast and dinner are also provided every day. For the 2013 period the Foundation is particularly interested in topics on the following areas: Equitable access to medical care, Biobanks, Biosecurity and Dual Use Dilemmas, Clinical Trials and Research on Human Subjects, Genetic Testing and Screening, Health Care Reform, Nanotechnology, Neglected diseases, Pandemic planning, Reproductive technology, Stem Cells and Cell Therapy and Organ transplantation.
WIPO to Launch New Annual Report
November 13th, 2011Sisule Musungu – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will, on 14 November 2011, be launching a new annual report - The World Intellectual Property Report. The 2011 edition will focus on the “Changing Face of Innovation” and will be describing key rends in the innovation landscape, including how the innovation process has become more open, collaborative and international.
MSF Launches an Ideas Contest on Revising TRIPS
July 28th, 2011Sisule F. Musungu – Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Access to Medicines Campaign has launched an Ideas Contest on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary (November 2011) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. The main question being asked is whether the TRIPS Agreement can be reformed to meet public health needs. An interesting question. Looking forward to seeing the winning entries.
Why WIPO Must Rethink its Committee Procedures and the Meaning of its Programme & Budget
June 30th, 2010Sisule F. Musungu – There was anticipation, hope and a sense that multilateralism was experiencing one of those good moments. That was last week at the 20th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The anticipation and hope, by many, was that the Committee meeting would end with a definite work programme towards a legal instrument to improve access to copyright material for those who are blind or with visual impairment or with print disability. Finally, the world of intellectual property (IP) was going to act decisively to end “the Book Famine”.
