IPOPHL
Holds IP Youth Camp In Time For APEC Cebu Hosting
19 August 2015, Cebu City,
Philippines
The Intellectual Property Office of
the Philippines (IPOPHL) brings the 3rd Intellectual Property (IP)
Youth Camp to Cebu City in time for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation IP
Rights Experts’ Group (APEC-IPEG) meeting from 22 -23 August 2015.
This is the first time that the IP Youth Camp is held
outside of Metro Manila and with the majority of the participants coming from
science and technology and private secondary schools in the Cebu province. The
IPOPHL will also fly select alumni from the previous IP Youth Camps in Metro
Manila to Cebu to allow the students to meet, collaborate and share
experiences.
The IP Youth Advocates Program IPOPHL began in 2013 with the
aim of enabling secondary school students understand the role of IP in
nation-building. From the initial roster
of three schools in 2013, the number of participating schools has expanded to
seven in Metro Manila alone, producing a total of 25 students in 2014 who are
now called IPOPHL’s Young IP Advocates (YIPA) in their respective schools.
“By
bringing the IPOPHL’s IP Youth Advocates program to Cebu in time for APEC-IPEG,
we are not only expanding the reach of the program, but also sharing one of our
most successful IP awareness and education initiatives to our partner APEC
economies. The program taps into the creativeness and innovativeness of our
youths. Our vision is to make this as an instrument for harnessing creativity,
innovation and respect for IP rights among our young people who are the future
of our country,” said Atty. Allan B. Gepty, Deputy Director
General/Officer-In-Charge of IPOPHL and head of the Philippine APEC-IPEG
delegation.
The
two-day IP Youth Camp, which starts today, will carry out various exciting
activities to demystify IP and will highlight the importance of IP in their
daily lives and emphasize the value of respect for IP. Out of the learning
experiences, the participants will be directed to come up with a concrete plan
of action on how they can share the learnings to their schoolmates.
After
the Youth Camp, the Cebu participants will be presented officially as IP
Advocates. They will have the opportunity to take their oath as Young IP
Advocates before the APEC-IPEG delegates on 22 August.
IP
education and awareness for the youth is one of the priority initiatives of the
Philippines at APEC.
words: Emmelina Masanque, IPOPHL IDTD
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