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# Intellectual property

Guidelines of data sovereignty and autorship of the AI Incubator participant's projects

### <mark style="color:$primary;">Data sovereignty</mark>

<mark style="color:$primary;">Each team retains full ownership of its data. It is shared only with the assigned mentor and Incubator collaborators, solely for program purposes, and never disclosed to third parties without the team's consent. No personally identifiable patient data may be shared unless anonymised and approved. This reflects the data sovereignty principles of the</mark> [<mark style="color:$primary;">African Union Data Policy Framework</mark>](https://au.int/en/documents/20220728/au-data-policy-framework)<mark style="color:$primary;">.</mark>

### <mark style="color:$primary;">Autorship</mark>

<mark style="color:$primary;">Authorship follows internationally recognised standards by the</mark>[ <mark style="color:$primary;">International Committee of Medical Journal Editors</mark>](https://www.icmje.org/) <mark style="color:$primary;">following Nature Portfolio</mark> [<mark style="color:$primary;">criteria</mark>](https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/editorial-policies/reporting-standards)<mark style="color:$primary;">, based on contribution and accountability rather than seniority or participation alone, with an author contribution statement agreed before submission. Mentors and collaborators are listed as co-authors only when their contribution meets these criteria, and acknowledged otherwise.</mark>&#x20;

### <mark style="color:$primary;">Scientific results ownership</mark>

<mark style="color:$primary;">Each team retains ownership of the scientific results and IP from its own project and data, subject to its host institution's policies.</mark>&#x20;

<mark style="color:$primary;">All outputs generated during the program must credit the AI Incubator Program, the Ersilia Open Source Initiative, and any collaborating institutions as appropriate.</mark>


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