Why Pedagogy Needs Diversity
Education is a powerful tool for diversity. From Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, which tells narratives marginalized from most American history…
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Hospitality Employees Learn Life Skills Underwater
Should you answer a text message while talking with your supervisor? How do you resolve workplace conflicts with your colleagues? A new online version of IYF's Passport…
Code for Social Good: TechChange Summer Fellowship 2016
Are you a techie looking to make a difference in the world? We're excited to announce that applications for TechChange Summer Fellowship 2016 are now open! This summer…
TechChange Tech Fellow Spotlight: You Jin Lee
Summer is coming to an end in D.C., and so is our time with our Summer Tech Fellows at TechChange. We kicked off our first TechChange Summer Fellowship this year and…
M&E Professionals Series: Q&A with Michael Klein of ISG
At TechChange, we pride ourselves in teaching our participants the crucial skills needed for a career in social good. And how do we find out what those skills are? We go…
TechGirls Return to TechChange
Last Friday, TechGirls returned to the TechChange headquarters. For the last few years, TechChange has had the privilege of hosting TechGirls at our headquarters for…
TechChange Alumni Spotlight: Ameneé Siahpush
If you have taken a TechChange course, you know that the participants are all doing amazing things wherever they are in the world. Some go on to start their own…
Digital Safety Course Sneak Peek: Robert Guerra
We are excited to introduce Robert Guerra as a co-facilitator in our upcoming course, TC114: Basics of Digital Safety. Robert is the founder and executive director of…
Reflections on Google's Recent Report on Digital Security Practices
Digital safety training is a social awareness issue. We are typically taught at a young age how to interact in society, but rarely are we taught how interact in the…
TechChange Alumna Launches AidWell
TechChange alumni are always doing amazing things. They have launched mHealth apps to help with HIV prescriptions in South Africa, started mapping projects for maternal…
TechChange Tech Fellow Spotlight: Nithya Menon
This year, we kicked off our first TechChange summer fellowship. We had three fellows join us in our TechChange office in Washington D.C. We sat down to chat with one of…
TechChange's newest initiative: A Diploma Program in Technology for Monitoring and Evaluation
We are so excited to announce our newest initiative: A Diploma in Technology for Monitoring and Evaluation! Over the past five years, we've been providing skills to over…
Why Public Health is a Geographic Issue
At Broad Street Maps, we believe that health is inherently a geographic issue. In the U.S. today, your zip code is a better predictor of your health profile than your…
The Role of Maps in Making Cities Green
Green infrastructure hasn't always been a priority in urban development. Now, more than ever, green spaces are an essential component of urban design to build healthy…
What You Need to Know About the Hacking Team Breach
While many people were watching the final match of the Women's World Cup last week, the Hacking Team was hacked. Hacking Team, an Italian digital security company…
TechChange Introduces Collaborative Syllabus Building
This is the second post in our Digital Pedagogy series, where we will share how we are trying to make online social learning even better with new learning activities…
Improving Mental Health Through Urban Design: There's an App for that
What does urban design have to do with mental health? By 2050, at least two-thirds of the global population will live in cities, which means urban public health is fast…
How Digital Volunteers Mapped the Nepal Earthquake
In a previous post, we wrote about how ICTs were helping people all around the world respond to the Nepal earthquake. Today, Luther Jeke takes a closer look at the…
Using APIs Without Code: My Top 5 IFTTT Recipes
A few weeks ago I touched on how you might use APIs to access data for visualizations. The response was great, but it definitely wasn't lost on me that there's a steep…
How Innovative Mapping Technologies can Help Address Water Issues in International Development
There are many lessons to be learned from on-site organizations doing implementation. As a personal account, I was recently reflecting on exploratory calls I conducted…