Abstract
In a postindustrial economic world, information economies are key components in local, regional and national development. These are service economies, built on the production, consumption and dissemination of information, including education, health care, outsourcing, tourism, sustainability and related human welfare services. We explore the geography/knowledge intersections in Poland’s voivodeships and poviats by using the volumes of information or hyperlinks about selected information economies. Google hyperlinks are electronic knowledge data that can be mapped to highlight the areas of most and least information about certain subject categories. While some mapping results are expected, such as Warsaw and Krakow, being prominent, in other regions there are unexpected gaps within eastern, northern and southern Poland, including some places near major metropolitan centers. There is a significant difference between the cities with poviat rights, which stand out in the number of information on items comparing to the poviats that surround them. The majority of poviats in Mazowieckie voivodeship are surprisingly recognized as core areas on the map of knowledge, nevertheless they are considered undeveloped from the economic point of view.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-12-2016
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.302.13
Repository Citation
Brunn, Stanley D.; Semczuk, Marcin; Koszek, Rafał; Gołuszka, Karolina; and Bołoz, Gabriela, "Poland’s Voivodeships and Poviats and the Geographies of Knowledge: Addressing Uneven Human Resources" (2016). Geography Faculty Publications. 27.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_facpub/27
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society, v. 30, no. 2.
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