This project aims to develop Second WIPO Inter-Regional Meeting on South-South (i) To the Member States and WIPO means to channel the efforts Cooperation on Patents, Trademarks, Geographical Secretariat on mainstreaming South-South of different actors to promote Indications, Industrial Designs and Enforcement held in cooperation as a regular part of WIPO activities: South-South Cooperation in Cairo in May 2013. Information is available at: the area of intellectual It is recommended that the property. Secretariat prepares, for the consideration Second WIPO Annual Conference on Intellectual by the Member States, a roadmap for the Property and Development held in Geneva in mainstreaming of South-South cooperation November 2013. Information is available at: as a delivery strategy to complement existing approaches; and The South-South webpage completed at the end of 2013 Consider establishing a dedicated and officially launched during a side-event to CDIP/13 on coordination function, which will also May 21, 2014. The platform can be accessed at: (). coordinate with other organizations inside and outside the UN system and a Project Manager appointed as the de facto focal point on formalization of the cooperation with South-South cooperation due to the time bound nature of UNOSSC. the project. (ii) To CDIP on a project extension: New functionalities introduced in the WIPO IP Technical Assistance Database (IP-TAD) and IP Development Approve an extension of the Project Matchmaking Database (IP-DMD). by one year in order to: Fine-tune all web-based tools A number of activities undertaken to promote the web based on user-feedback, promoting page among potential users and to collect additional them among potential users and information for the South-South databases, including the maintaining them (including collecting promotion of the new web platform via relevant social information for the databases); media tools. Mapping of existing An Inter-regional Expert Meeting on South-South and activities within WIPO, Triangular Cooperation for Access to Information and studying good practices within other Knowledge, Innovation Support, and Technology UN organizations;
This project aims to develop means to channel the efforts of different actors to promote South-South Cooperation in the area of intellectual property. Second WIPO Inter-Regional Meeting on South-South Cooperation on Patents, Trademarks, Geographical Indications, Industrial Designs and Enforcement held in Cairo in May 2013. Information is available at: Second WIPO Annual Conference on Intellectual Property and Development held in Geneva in November 2013. Information is available at: The South-South webpage completed at the end of 2013 and officially launched during a side-event to CDIP/13 on May 21, 2014. The platform can be accessed at: (). Project Manager appointed as the de facto focal point on South-South cooperation due to the time bound nature of the project. New functionalities introduced in the WIPO IP Technical Assistance Database (IP-TAD) and IP Development Matchmaking Database (IP-DMD). A number of activities undertaken to promote the web page among potential users and to collect additional information for the South-South databases, including the promotion of the new web platform via relevant social media tools. An Inter-regional Expert Meeting on South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Access to Information and Knowledge, Innovation Support, and Technology (i) To the Member States and WIPO Secretariat on mainstreaming South-South cooperation as a regular part of WIPO activities: It is recommended that the Secretariat prepares, for the consideration by the Member States, a roadmap for the mainstreaming of South-South cooperation as a delivery strategy to complement existing approaches; and Consider establishing a dedicated coordination function, which will also coordinate with other organizations inside and outside the UN system and a formalization of the cooperation with UNOSSC. (ii) To CDIP on a project extension: Approve an extension of the Project by one year in order to: Fine-tune all web-based tools based on user-feedback, promoting them among potential users and maintaining them (including collecting information for the databases); Mapping of existing activities within WIPO, studying good practices within other UN organizations;