Open in order to eradicate extreme poverty: Academic libraries and open access resources in Latin America | Voices

"In our continuing blog series leading up to International Open Access Week (October 23-27), Eduardo E. Quintero Orta, Research Librarian in ITS Knowledge and Information* discusses the importance and prevalence of Open Access to research in Latin America:

“Education is a powerful driver of development and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability”1 

The World Bank Group “helped draft and is a signatory to the Education 2030 Framework for Action (UNESCO, 2015), which will guide countries through the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.” Within these frameworks, higher education is essential, and access to information is key to achieving this goal."