Erratum to "World librarians: A socio-technical system providing library search services to offline schools and libraries in Malawi" [World Dev. Perspect. (1-9) (2020) 100234].

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.wdp.

World librarians: A socio-technical system providing library search services to offline schools and libraries in Malawi.

World Librarians is a socio-technical system that strives to solve the information access problem many remote offline schools and libraries have in lesser developed contexts. In this Case Report, we describe the system we have developed over the course of three years, where we first establish solar-powered computer labs in remote schools and libraries in Malawi, and then provide them digital information that they want, rather than what we in the Global North think they need. After providing background on these issues, we describe the socio-technical underpinnings and workflow in the World Librarians program.

Lights, camera…citizen science: assessing the effectiveness of smartphone-based video training in invasive plant identification.

The rapid growth and increasing popularity of smartphone technology is putting sophisticated data-collection tools in the hands of more and more citizens. This has exciting implications for the expanding field of citizen science. With smartphone-based applications (apps), it is now increasingly practical to remotely acquire high quality citizen-submitted data at a fraction of the cost of a traditional study.

Using satellite imagery to locate innovative forest management practices in Nepal.

There is a critical need to locate innovative forest management institutions that significantly impact forest cover change. This research presents an initial "proof of concept" methodology which combines deforestation theory with satellite image change analysis to identify forested areas that, theoretically, should probably not be there. Ten such "forest anomalies" are identified using temporal analysis of Landsat TM imagery of the Chitwan district in Nepal, linked with a GIS database on roads and a visual estimation of topography.