Featured on the New America website, this article details the work of Carl Meyer, an information technology professional and the executive director of ShiftIT, a nonprofit organization located in Blantyre, Malawi, and Charlies Schweik, Associate Director of PIT@UMass and Professor, who together, launched the World Librarians program, a model for connecting requests for information from students in under-resourced countries with publicly available, open educational resources. This amazing story details the successful six-year path of their work, including the rollout of over 30 rural school deployments in Malawi, expansion into Kenya, and overall broadening of availability of resources. According to Schweik, “What is remarkable about this project is that it shows just how small the world has become, and how technology coupled with social ingenuity can create systems where people on two sides of the world who have never met in person can help each other.” Read the full story here.