Close the South-North knowledge gap

Information Competencies: Bridging the North-south Knowledge Gap

Knowledge is readily available in middle-income developing countries through international information repositories on the Internet. However, most citizens from the Southern Hemisphere do not possess the information skills or information competencies to access, use and understand such knowledge wealth. Most economically evolving developing countries have made progress in education in recent dec...

Closing the Knowledge Gap in Irish Manufacturing – A North- South Comparison

For regions or nations which historically have had low levels of domestic R&D investment, such as Ireland, North and South, inward investment represents a potentially of inward knowledge transfer. Using data from large multi-national plants throughout Ireland this paper examines the geography of knowledge within Irish manufacturing focussing particularly on knowledge gaps and knowledge transfer...

North–north, North–south, and South–south Relations

The North-South Knowledge Divide: Consequences for Global Environmental Governance

South African e-Government Policy and Practices: A Framework to Close the Gap

E-government in South Africa has a particularly important historical and social context due to the legacy of apartheid. As a result, a ten year egovernment implementation horizon has been created from tested world wide practices. Thus far the plan is not being realised and a gap is appearing between what the policy says should be happening and what is actually happening. This gap is most likely...