How Open is Open? The African Perspectives

Advances in digitalization and the drive to equitable access to knowledge have given as the open access publishing and scholarly communication industry. This publishing industry generally provides an internet based digital platform for the publication of research output with unrestricted access to the public. The growth of open access publishing and scholarly communication has been very remarkable in the global North. However, this has created a huge financial burden in many developing countries in sharing their findings as the author needs to pay thousands of dollars. This, session will not be discussed in detail this obvious inequity, because there is much more hidden challenge that the globally north general does experience. the knowledge might free available to access digitally, however can everyone access equally? Is the cost of access/connection the digital platform equitable in all geographical locations?