Access to knowledge in Africa: the role of copyright

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Title:	Access to knowledge in Africa: the role of copyright
Editor:	Armstrong, Chris
Year:	2010
Pages:	366
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Claremont
Publisher:	UCT Press
ISBN:	9781552504901; 1919895450; 9781919895451
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	copyright access to information education
External links:	http://link.wits.ac.za/papers/ACA2K-2010-Access%20to%20knowledge%20in%20Africa.pdf https://www.asclibrary.nl/docs/331634376.pdf
Abstract:	This book is a result of an international and interdisciplinary research project known as the African Copyright and Access to Knowledge (ACA2K) project which was carried out in eight countries in 2006-2007. The starting point for the project was a long-term vision for copyright regimes in African education systems. The project's two main hypotheses were that 1) study countries' copyright environments do not currently maximize access to the knowledge contained in learning materials and 2) that improvements can be made to the countries' copyright environments in order to increase access. The introduction stresses the importance of improving African education systems, and discusses the connection between education and copyright, existing research on copyright and education, the ACA2K project, its objectives and research methods, the ACA2K project and gender, and the results of the project. This is followed by country reports on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. [ASC Leiden abstract]