AndrewRens

Andrew Rens thinks and writes about the interaction of law, knowledge and innovation, and blogs his thoughts at www.aliquidnovi.org. Andrew has worked in academe, private practise and the non profit sector. He was the founding Legal Lead of Creative Commons South Africa, a co-founder and former director of The African Commons Project, a charter member and director of Freedom to Innovate South Africa ,a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society , and a research associate at the LINK Center at the School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Andrew qualified as an attorney in South Africa, and was awarded a Master of Laws from the Law School at the University of the Witwatersrand where he where he subsequently taught Master's courses in Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Space and Satellite, and Media and Information Technology Law, before spending several years in San Francisco, California. Andrew completed a three three year fellowship as the Intellectual Property Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation in February 2010. He works closely with Intellectual Property Lawand Policy Research at the University of Cape Town, and Research ICT Africa, is teaching a Master's course in Telecommunications Law at the UCT Law School during the first term of 2010 (February to June 2010).