IPA Secretary General, José Borghino spoke on Day 3 of the Conference. His presentation, entitled ‘IPA’s Partnership with Africa: What’s at stake?’, spoke about Africa’s increased membership of the IPA — from 5 members in 2013 to 19 now — and how that raised profile has been mutually beneficial for both the IPA and our individual and collective African members. Borghino also called for better, deeper and more consistent communication between our African members and the IPA Secretariat in Geneva, especially with regard to the range of copyright challenges currently afflicting the continent. He praised the creation of the African Educational Publishers Forum and urged this new group to integrate its concerns and sense of the structural impediments present in Africa with the IPA’s central EPF. Finally, Borghino offered to work with APNET to help with capacity building of our members in the areas of advocacy, lobbying and the twin policy pillars of copyright and freedom to publish.