Andrew Rens

Andrew Rens is Intellectual Property Fellow for the Shuttleworth Foundation. He is also Legal Lead for Creative Commons South Africa, a co-founder and director of The African Commons Project, charter member of Freedom to Innovate South Africa and a research associate at the LINK Center. After teaching at Wits Law School he was a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.

A renowned speaker in his field, Andrew has delivered addresses at the Second Conference on Access to Knowledge at Yale Law School, Digital Citizens Indaba at Rhodes University and the National Science and Technology Forum. He also writes on access to knowledge, the commons and intellectual property and is an avid blogger at ex Africa semper aliquid novi.

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The Weakening of Women's Chances for Economic Equity - The broad context is that African women pay the price for failing states and a hostile political economy that deepens poverty and widens inequalities in many societies of the global South.

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Slavoj Zizek: How Corporations Make Profits by Associating Themselves with Charitable Causes - In this Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA) animated video, Slovenian philosopher, Slavoj Zizek, investigates the ethical implications of charitable giving, as suggested by big business. Zizek draws attention to an important debate while the creative genius of the RSA illustrators is enormously entertaining to watch.

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