Knoledge World distribution

It’s time to redraw the world’s very unequal knowledge map

July 8, 2015 12.22am EDT

Author

1. Laura Czerniewicz
   Associate Professor, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town
2. If the world were mapped according to how many scientific research papers each
   country produced, it would take on a rather bizarre, uneven appearance.
   The Northern hemisphere would balloon beyond recognition. The global south, including Africa, would effectively melt off the map.
   This image is based on data from 2001 - but, as this interactive map
   which tracks the same data from 1990 to 2011 shows, very little has changed
   in the past decade.
   The map makes a dramatic point about the complexities of global inequalities
   in knowledge production and exchange. So what is driving this inequality and
   how can it be corrected?/.../