Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D.

Mom, wife, founder | intellectual property, technology, ethics

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

In a perfect #circular system, waste almost doesn’t exist.

But our #intellectualproperty (IP) laws were not built for this circular world. IP: patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs were created to reward new inventions by helping companies sell new products.

This works well in a linear economy, but it clashes with a world that needs repair and reuse.

So, how does the circular economy connect to IP rights? How can IP either boost circular ideas like #repair and #reuse, or block them and keep us stuck in the old “take–make–throw away” system.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

Bosnia has 20 ethnic groups and citizens who don’t want to be part of any: all are the constituents.

In Europe common values apply to all constituents equally.

In Bosnia, even the c of the common values seems to be a mystery.

[Borjana Krišto @KristoBorjana]

Today at a trilateral meeting with ministers 🇲🇫 @benjaminhaddad & 🇩🇪 @guntherkrich on various topics. 🇧🇦 is a reliable partner and wants to be a full member of 🇪🇺 based on our common values. The equality of three constituent peoples is the key to all progress that awaits us.

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

The pensions were meant to be in EUR.

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

Who are you representing, Madam Candidate?

The position of Bosnian Croats only, or the other 19 ethnic groups and anyone else who does not belong to any of those ethnicities in your entity FBiH electorate?

The law says you should represent me, as your constituent, as well as all other constituents in the FBiH entity.

My generation also knows what it is like to live with the consequences of the war. Around 2 million of us outside the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina know.

A large number of Bosnian Diaspora was obstructed and unable to return to Bosnia: because your party didn’t see it fit to ensure the safe and secure implementation of Annex 7, Dayton Accords (the right to return).

[Darijana Filipović @FilipovicD_]

Moja generacija ne zna što znači donositi odluke u ratu. Ali, zna što znači živjeti s njihovim posljedicama.

Zato danas, u miru, mi imamo odgovornost sačuvati ono što je izboreno i stvoriti zemlju u kojoj mladi vide budućnost i ostaju.

Iznimna mi je čast bila odazvati se pozivu Hrvatskog generalskog zbora i razgovarati o Bosni i Hercegovni i položaju hrvatskoga naroda.

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

Is the average monthly cost of living less expensive or more expensive nowadays?

There is over 700,000 pensioners facing choices between medicine or bread on pensions ranging from KM 260 to an average of what, KM 350?

Not to mention that Bosnia is ill-equipped to support even such a pension system: Bosnia has 1.15 workers per pensioner, and we need 3 workers per pensioner for the bare minimum.

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

So what decisions will you, as the new generation, make as a Member of the Presidency that will represent all your constituents equally?

How will you make life easier and better for everyone, Bosnian kids more literate (e.g. check the dismal PISA results) and ensure that Bosnia finally passes those overdue EU membership reforms?

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

We hope the EU understands that a safe and secure Bosnia translates into a safe and secure Region, and the EU.

Therefore, there can be #no #closing the OHR or #reducing the powers of the High Representative before effective, lasting, and credible mechanisms are established to protect the territorial integrity, constitutional order, and sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

One way to jump-start that is to let Bosnia join the EU, with conditions attached. Or the EU could take over OHR and hold the equivalent of Bonn powers.

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

We hope the EU understands that a safe and secure Bosnia translates into a safe and secure Region, and the EU.

Therefore, there can be #no #closing the OHR or #reducing the powers of the High Representative before effective, lasting, and credible mechanisms are established to protect the territorial integrity, constitutional order, and sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

One way to jump-start that is to let Bosnia join the EU, with conditions attached. Or the EU could take over OHR and hold the equivalent of Bonn powers.

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

#Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to its people.

State property belongs to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

That line is not negotiable.

https://t.co/spJjznfQgM

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

One cannot exist without the other.

The people are Bosnia.
The land, the rivers, the state property - they are Bosnia, too.

That is why it is important to stand with @KRUG_99 tomorrow, even with a simple "like" because they are standing up for all.

For equality of all #Bosnians and for Bosnian #state #property.

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

#Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to its people.

State property belongs to the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

That line is not negotiable.

https://t.co/spJjznfQgM

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

This is Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[Bosnian Football @BosniaNTBall]

📍SARAJEVO! #FIFAWorldCup

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

One cannot exist without the other.

The people are Bosnia.
The land, the rivers, the state property - they are Bosnia, too.

That is why it is important to stand with @KRUG_99 tomorrow, even with a simple "like" because they are standing up for all.

For equality of all #Bosnians and for Bosnian #state #property.

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

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[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

The Greek diaspora was the foundation and driving force behind Greece’s modern state. The same goes for the Italian and Chinese diasporas.

Unsurprisingly, the power of #Bosnian diaspora is enormous. Yet, it is still politically underrepresented, intellectually and economically untapped.

The institutions of #Bosnia and Herzegovina must engage in dialogue with people from the #diaspora, not only before elections and not only when they need money for humanitarian campaigns.

There is no model that clearly states what the state offers and how cooperation works. Without a legal framework, investment security and concrete support, everything remains empty words.

[Goran Šimić @drgoransimic]

Jednom donesene i pravosnažne, presude postaju utvrđene činjenice, bez obzira na to želi li ih društvo prihvatiti ili ne, poručio je Šimić, upozorivši da Bosna i Hercegovina već tri decenije živi u podijeljenom prostoru „jedne istine i više interpretacija“, gdje se često radije vjeruje vlastitim mitovima nego sudski utvrđenim činjenicama.

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

I remember, the breathtaking dignity of the interviewed #Bosnian women (one interviewee was a former local court judge) who survived the Prijedor concentration camps. And, I remember the man they called a gentleman.

In addition to undergoing torture and rapes herelf, one interviewed woman was also forced to serve food to inmates. Among them was an elderly man, who, each time he passed her and other women, would pull up his shirt to cover his neck.

He didn't want them to see the cuts carved all over his throat.

But, the ladies knew.

They understood what he was doing: protecting them from further horror with whatever dignity and scraps of "freedom" remained to him.

A brave old Bosnian grandfather, covering his freshly mutilated throat so the women wouldn't have to fear even more or witness his pain.

The ladies, prisoners of the Prijedor concentration camp, called him a gentleman.

[Amina Agovic-Argillander, Ph.D. @aagovic]

At the Omarska concentration camp, the women prisoners called him a gentleman.

Today, on 31st May, #whitearmband day, we honour #Prijedor and the countless souls whose lives were shattered there.

I still remember a documentary I watched years ago, so difficult to comprehend and impossible to forget.

[SniperAlley.Photo @SniperAlleyPhot]

It's been 32 years since the Prijedor massacre & the opening of the Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia. These survivors tell their stories of the torture and incarceration.

You can watch full ‘The Omarska Camp' here: https://t.co/XyBvJ157dR

#BosnianGenocide