According to a 2005 UNESCO World Report, the rise in the 21st century of a global information society has resulted in the emergence of knowledge as a valuable resource, increasingly determining who has access to power and profit.
Together with information and communication technologies (ICT), these new paradigms have the power to reshape the global economy.
[5] In order to keep pace with innovations, to come up with new ideas, people need to produce and manage knowledge.
[6] According to UNESCO and the World Bank,[7] knowledge gaps between nations may occur due to the varying degrees by which individual nations incorporate the following elements: First, it was noticed that a great difference exists between the North and the South [where?]
Indeed, UNESCO's report details many social issues in knowledge divide related to globalization.