Digitalisation in North-South Research Partnerships: Great Opportunities & Multiple Challenges

Digitalisation greatly influences North-South research partnerships, impacting communication, collaboration and relationships between Southern and Northern partners in multiple ways. Digitalisation has created novel means of communication, has opened unprecedented knowledge transfer channels, and has made digital data acquisition and monitoring tools more easily available. At the same time, we are confronted with new challenges such as data security and unequal access to digital infrastructure, which can potentially increase inequality and division between Northern and Southern research partners.