How ICTs are Helping Nepalis Around the World Respond to the Earthquake
On Saturday morning, I woke up to numerous messages on whatsapp and facebook from my friends in India asking me if my family was safe. After listening to a voicemail from…
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Imagine, Design, and 3D Print
The possibilities for 3D printing are endless. While this may scare some of us, the potential for innovation is exactly what excites us here at TechChange! Imagine being able to quickly…
Free Webinar on Digital Humanitarians: A Conversation with Patrick Meier
What does humanitarian response look like today? With so much information available, how can we use big data effectively for humanitarian efforts? Joins us on May 5 for a free webinar…
The Case for Gender Data
In a previous post, we wrote about why global development practitioners need to be data skeptics. One of the many reasons that we need to be skeptical about the data we…
#PeaceTech Review: A Preview of Promise
The most recent issue of "Building Peace," a publication of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, on #PeaceTech doesn't dwell on "what" is being built in technology for peace, but rather examining "how"…
Tech for M&E Online Course Sneak Peek: Dow Maneerattana of World Resources Institute
Open data has been a popular topic in international development recently, but what about the evaluation of open data programs? We are excited to welcome Dow Maneerattana from World Resources Institute (WRI)…
TechChange Staff Spotlight: Norman Shamas
Wondered who designs and teaches our online courses? You met one of our course facilitators Kendra Keith in a previous post, and today we introduce you to Norman Shamas. As TechChange's…
3 Essential Elements to Integrate Tech in M&E
Simply including technology in your M&E plan does not lead to better M&E. This was the mantra as I started TechChange's Tech for M&E online course in January. I heard about…
3 Things You Missed at Our Website Launch Party
TechChange has come a long way since we built our first site in 2010. Five years and 400,000 lines of code later, we have an amazing site built by some of the…
Pen and Paper make a Comeback
As an online learning community, we are always looking for ways our students can learn more effectively. Many of our amazing alumni, who take our online courses on top of their full-time…
4 Things Everyone Needs to run a Successful mHealth Program
Dianna Kane, Senior Designer, and Maeghan Orton, Africa Regional Director, are frontwomen for the Skoll Award Winning nonprofit, Medic Mobile. The groundbreaking technology company is now helping 9,000 health workers in…
How mHealth is Evolving into Phone Extensions and Wearables
When we interviewed Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, at the 2013 mHealth Summit, he said that mobile phones are the "Aladdin's lamp for healthcare", a statement that still rings true…
The Top 3 Opportunities for mHealth, a $42.12 Billion Industry by 2020
According to a recent report by Grand View Research, Inc., the global market for the mHealth (mobile health) industry will reach $42.12 billion dollars by year 2020. That same year, GSMA…
Training Health Workers for Ebola Response and Community Support: Second Webinar Series
Since the launch of the first free Training Health Workers for Ebola webinar series in October 2014, we have seen hundreds of members of the global health community come together to share…
TechChange Staff Spotlight: Rebecca Nelson
Have you seen our animations and wondered who is creating them? Meet one of our graphic designers who brings them to life, Rebecca Nelson. Where are you from? I am from Accokeek…
TechChange Staff Spotlight: Charlie Weems
Meet Charlie Weems, TechChange's project manager. Like many of us here, Charlie wears many different hats at TechChange. Read more and get to know Charlie and what he does as a project…
3 MWC15 Takeaways for the Developing World
Last week, tens of thousands of participants and over 2,000 exhibitors gathered at the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona to launch and share the latest advances in mobile technology,…
Announcing the 2015 TechChange Summer Fellows
We are thrilled to announce our 2015 Summer Fellows. We would like to thank everyone who applied for this fellowship. With over 1,000 applicants from all over the globe, we were astounded…
TechChange in AIDF's Top 100 Accounts to Follow on Twitter in 2015
What does TechChange have in common with Alicia Keys, Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, and Doctors Without Borders? We are all in Aid & International Development Forum's 'Top 100 Accounts to Follow…
#IWD2015: Celebrating International Women's Day 2015
On this year's International Women's Day, we recognize the important work our alumni and partners are doing to empower women and girls across the world. At TechChange, there are few areas we…