On May 24, 2024, after nearly 25 years of negotiations, the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) announced that member states, including Canada, had agreed to a new Treaty on Intellectual ...

What do snow goggles, suspension bridges, and lacrosse have in common? They are all innovations that were created by Native Americans thousands of years ago that we still use today. Many Native ...

Creating a compendium of modern inventions, the Renaissance artist Johannes Stradanus featured the printing press, the canon, the clock, and distillation. And then there was his drawing depicting the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology to take full inventory of all indigenous inventions and innovations for possible financial assistance. Maryam ...

Introduction : definitions, terminology and the "invention of tradition" -- The "God controversy" in pre-Christian indigenous religions -- The debate over Io as the pre-Christian Māori supreme being - ...

Danielle Boyer knew she was interested in robotics from a young age. But with limited learning resources -- a problem many Native American students face -- Boyer, who is Ojibwe, said she had to take ...

The last year has highlighted America’s deep divides over identity and its struggles with how to memorialize the past. In the midst of these very public debates, indigenous artists are taking a ...

At the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore at WIPO in Geneva, the South African Minister for Science and ...

Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved a groundbreaking new treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on ...

Boyer, who is Ojibwe, builds robots that teach Indigenous languages. Danielle Boyer knew she was interested in robotics from a young age. But with limited learning resources -- a problem many Native ...