{"id":75986,"date":"2025-03-06T18:51:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/?post_type=person&#038;p=75986"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:59:49","slug":"melissa-omino","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/person\/melissa-omino\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Omino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr Melissa Omino is currently the Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) at Strathmore University, where she oversees the research direction of the leading Eastern African AI Policy Hub and Data Governance Policy Centre with a range of funding partners that includes the IDRC, Hewlett Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Open AIR. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her research direction is focused on utilizing an African lens and a Human Rights lens. Part of the research conducted under Dr Omino\u2019s leadership at CIPIT involved mapping AI applications in Africa as the initial step in answering the question of what determines African AI and the problems it aims to solve in Africa.\u00a0Dr Omino is also an intellectual property (IP) expert with a research focus on the development and negotiation of IP provisions in international trade agreements by and with Global South countries. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has served as an Advisory Board member in several African and Global Projects that intersect between AI and IP, including a National AI Strategy Process, and leading the IP Advisory to a global entity funding AI research in Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":76038,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/75986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}