Sharing and Building Teaching Capacity in the South: The Ethical Challenges of Copyright

  • Valéry Ridde Centre Population et Développement (CEPED), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Université Paris Descartes, INSERM, équipe SAGESUD, Paris, France; Institut de recherche en santé publique de l'Université de Montréal (IRSPUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada
Keywords: global health, training, ethics, integrity, capacity building, copyright
Language(s): French

Abstract

In the field of international cooperation, particularly in global health, educators from the North have for a long time been visiting institutions in the South to help build the capacities of their colleagues. Thus, it often happens that educator-researchers from the North and the South collaborate to prepare research or training, often with the aim that these processes allow the former to share their specific expertise with the latter. In this particular context, often marked by issues of power and access to resources, there are ethical and deontological challenges. In this fictional case study, based on real-world experiences, I highlight, among other things, the copyright issues associated with the production of research protocols or educational materials in this collaborative context for capacity building.

Published
2018-04-24
How to Cite
[1]
Ridde V. Sharing and Building Teaching Capacity in the South: The Ethical Challenges of Copyright. Can. J. Bioeth. 2018;1:41-3. https://doi.org/10.7202/1058279ar.
Section
Case studies