How Might We Measure Trauma Healing? Lessons from Burundi
More than 300,000 people lost their lives in the bloody civil war that ravaged Burundi from 1993 to 2005. Almost twice as many were forced to leave their homes, slowly returning…
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What Could Creative Commons Mean For You
mPowering Frontline Health Workers is delighted to introduce a new video, developed with TechChange, that explains how publishing content under a Creative Commons license can maximize the reach and impact of…
"Rwanda is for All of Us": Modern M&E and Traditional Community Building Come Together in Rwanda
How can peacebuilding programs get a better understanding of trust? This question is at the heart of Innocent Hitayezu's work with women and issues of reconciliation, and continues to shape his…
Alumni Spotlight: Eva Erlach on Technology for Data Visualization
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,…
The Accidental Evaluator: Learning M&E by doing in Rwanda
"Rwandan society has suffered the wounds of genocide. To make sure that the heart of the community is healed, to know that there is no more fear in society, we must…
Data Analytics, Delivered To You
Today, most of us can have Pad Thai, a craft cocktail, and a professional masseuse all arrive at our doorstep with a click of a button on our phones, but the…
Reinvent the Wheel, Not the Flat Tire: 5 Takeaways from #MERLTech
A few weeks ago, my colleague Yuting Liao and I had the opportunity to attend MERL Tech—an industry conference of sorts designed to bring together M&E practitioners, researchers, technologists, and development…
South Sudan's "Collective Journey": How can evaluation shape policy?
"It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be older than your country, to raise it and help it grow." – Zacharia Diing Akol The crisis that broke out in…
Beyond Social Media: The Role of Data Visualization, E-Learning, and Digital Mapping in Diplomacy
Social media has become a very important diplomacy tool to engage with the public. Realizing the evolving nature of diplomacy in the 21st century, the Italian embassy in Washington, DC regularly…
You've Collected the Data – Now What?
Data is useless unless it provides us with actionable insights into our work. In order to make sense of the data, however, we need to understand it, which is why data…
Why you need to learn Excel for data visualization
Over the years, TechChange has provided several professionals in the international development community with the crucial tech skills needed to make an impact in their work…
How Devjani Entered the ICT4D Field with a TechChange Course
One of the things that sets the TechChange platform apart from other online courses is the network you are immersed in. Today, we are excited to highlight one of our alumna…
TechChange Welcomes a PFP Fellow from Egypt!
We are excited to welcome Heba Ghannam, a PFP Fellow (Professional Fellows Program) from Egypt! The Professional Fellows Program is a US state department fellowship…
Turning Applause Into Action: A 4-step Action Plan for Getting Involved in the Global Goals for Sustainable Development
The Global Goals for Sustainable Development, a to-do list for humanity, were approved just over a week ago in New York City. Anyone working in this field is riding a…
A First Look at our Diploma Program
Last month, for the first time we launched a whole diploma program in technology for monitoring and evaluation. We started this program to give our community a learning…
M&E Professionals Series: Q&A with Janet Kerley of dTS
In August, along with announcing our Tech for M&E Diploma program, we kicked off a M&E Professionals Series, where we will be talking one-on-one with M&E professionals…
Unsustainable Careers in Sustainable Development
This article was originally published on Stanford Social Innovation Review. By Nick Martin & Christopher Neu On November 3, 1961, John F. Kennedy's universal call to fight…
Leveraging Technology for the Sustainable Development Goals
3D printers make creating new prosthetic limbs look easy. Smart systems enable farmers to perfectly plant, fertilize, water and harvest their fields. Innovative analytical…
Why the Digital Currency Innovation Matters to Global Development
Do you use digital currency? If you use a credit card, PayPal, or use a mobile money app to sell or buy things, then the answer is yes! There is a lot of innovation…
What are the Tech for M&E Alumni Saying About Our Course?
We are excited to start our fourth iteration of our most popular online course, Technology for Monitoring and Evaluation! We wanted to ask some of our alumni who have…