Communications Fellow Spotlight: Meronne Teklu
Please join us in welcoming Meronne, our new communications fellow here at TechChange! Meronne is currently a student at the College of William & Mary, entering her senior year, and studying…
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Our First Ever Course on Digital Technology, Agriculture, and Innovation!
Exciting News: We are launching our first ever online course on Agriculture, Innovation and Technology in coordination with ICTforAg 2016, a premier conference on the use of technology to improve smallholder…
Bringing Social Change to the Tech Level
How do you make the invisible visible? How can we keep up with our ever-changing world, and how can we utilize the technologies of our time? Upon the completion of TechChange's…
Guest Expert Spotlight: Steve Ollis of Mobile Phones for Public Health
Today we had the opportunity to chat with Steve Ollis of D-tree International, who will be a guest expert for our Mobile Phones for Public Health course. Below, he discusses his…
Guest Expert Spotlight: Priyanka Pathak of Mobile Phones for Public Health
Mobile Health: How Far We've Come When I first started in the field of technology for development back in around 2010, I was working specifically in global health tech, and there…
Survey Design for Quality Data – Part 2
Let's pick up where we left off in Part 1 of our survey design for quality data series, which was inspired by Dobility founder and CEO Dr. Christopher Robert's presentation in…
Survey Design For Quality Data – Part 1
Last week, Dobility founder and CEO Dr. Christopher Robert presented on how to design surveys for quality data in the TechChange course "Technology for Data Collection and Survey Design." We thought…
Guest Expert Spotlight: Melissa Persaud of Mobile Phones for Public Health
Live guest expert sessions are a key, and favorite, aspect of any of TechChange's four-week, facilitated courses. Held 2-3 times per week, these events give our students the chance to engage…
RECAP: Tech for M&E Diploma Orientation in Washington, D.C.
On Wednesday, January 21, TechChange officially launched the Alternative Grad School (AGS) track of our Tech for M&E Diploma Program. The Alternative Grad School track builds upon the Working Professionals Experience,…
Alumni Spotlight: Sonja Schmidt on the Technology for M&E Diploma Program
In 2015, TechChange launched the Technology for Monitoring & Evaluation Diploma Program, which combined three TechChange courses (Tech for M&E, Tech for Data Collection and Survey Design, Tech for Data Visualization)…
Alumni Spotlight: Amira Elibiary on Technology for Monitoring & Evaluation
TechChange courses are designed for busy young professionals. In any of our courses, you will find yourself taking the course alongside international development field and headquarter staff, university professors and students,…
Women in Technology: Ways to Close the Gender Gap
Featured image credit: WOCinTech Chat Creative Commons License The Current Situation There's no doubt that there is a glaring gender gap in tech. The widely accepted number of jobs held by…
TechChange featured in TakePart.org and Non-Profit Quarterly
The TechChange project with Malaria Consortium that provides digital training to over 3,000 pharmacists in Uganda and Nigeria in how to properly diagnose and treat Malaria was recently featured by both…
Technology and Monitoring & Evaluation: Getting It Right
1. Privacy Responsible data management is not new to development. However, with the use of technology-enabled tools for M&E, it has raised a few challenges related to the privacy of individuals.…
Alumni Spotlight: Amy Noreuil
TechChange courses are designed with busy working professionals in mind. In any of our courses you will find yourself engaging with a vast network of participants from all corners of the…
NextDrop: An Innovative Solution to a Critical Problem
Featured image: water filling a metal pot, taken March 26, 2009 This article was written as part of the course "Mobiles for International Development" offered through George Washington University, taught by…
Ensuring Safety of Human Rights Defenders in the Digital World
Featured image: A journalist takes a snapshot of the December 3, 2015 Black Lives Matter rally at Minneapolis City Hall. Today, on Human Rights Day, we focus on the importance of…
Fail Festival is Back!
In international development, we all love to talk about our successes, but we need to celebrate our failures too. And failures are exactly what we will be celebrating at Fail Fest…
Tools for Inclusion: Technology Resources for Integrating Rights of Persons with Disabilities in M&E
Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Persons with disabilities constitute the world's largest minority, 80% of whom live in developing countries – an estimated 800 million people. Approximately 20%…
TechChange Returns to Kampala
It's not every day that you get up from your desk, walk out of your office, and travel 8,353 miles to check in on a project. But in October that's exactly…