TechChange New Staff Spotlight: Kendra Keith
Kendra first connected with us almost a year ago while taking our mHealth online course. She was interning with the USAID Bureau of Global…
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5 Ways Technology is Fighting HIV and Preventing AIDS
In honor of World AIDS Day 2014, we celebrate several TechChange alumni who are heroes in the front lines of fighting HIV and AIDS…
TechChange Staff Spotlight: Alon Askarov
Where are you from? I'm originally from Israel, specifically a city south of Tel Aviv called Rishon Le Zion. What did you do before…
How Maps Help Fight Ebola
As technology for disaster response evolves, digital mapping is playing an increasingly important role in helping emergency managers in humanitarian emergency response operations. When…
TechChange New Staff Spotlight: Sara Pitcairn
Sara recently joined us as an online instructional designer and works with clients to develop and design online courses, in addition to coordinating and…
Using Mobile Technology to Better Prepare, Communicate, and Keep Informed during Emergencies
Image source: ReadyMarin During an emergency, it is important to have ample information. Specifically, emergency management teams and affected populations need details surrounding the…
Lessons Learned Piloting a mHealth Project in Senegal
This feedback on mhealth concerns a field mission I undertook in July 2014. I visited one of Handicap International Federation's HIV and disability projects…
Towards Standardized Hashtags in Disaster Response
Wouldn't it be wonderful if all public social media messages in a disaster would come with a flag that identifies them as relevant? The…
TechChange Alumnus Launches mHealth App to Correctly Prescribe Antiretrovirals for HIV
Treating HIV with antriretroviral treatment (ARV) medication can be very challenging, given how complicated it can be to dispense these pills correctly. Especially in…
Ebola Webinar Series Brings Together 550 Participants from over 70 Countries
TechChange recently broadcasted the Training Health Workers for Ebola webinar series, with the sponsorship and webinar content of mPowering Frontline Health Workers and IntraHealth…
Challenges and Opportunities for mHealth in Kenya
According to GSMA's Digital Entrepreneurship in Kenya 2014 report, 99% of internet subscribers in Kenya access the internet through mobile devices. Kenya has been…
Can the "Panic Button" Android Emergency App Protect Activists and Prevent Sexual Violence?
Photo source: Amnesty International In the latest session of TechChange's "Tech for International Crisis Response and Good Governance" class, I learned about the Panic…
I Watch Trains Tunisian Election Observers Online
On Sunday October 26, 2014, more than three million Tunisian voters cast ballots in parliamentary elections, marking an historic milestone in the country's remarkable…
Why Haven't Mobiles Solved the Problem of Ebola Contact Tracing Yet?
Before the recent Ebola outbreak, the terms "contact tracing" and "Ebola" were spoken by only a small community of public health specialists consisting of…
TechChange Finalist for InTheCapital "50 on Fire" 2014 List
We're excited to be a finalist on the InTheCapital "50 on Fire" list for 2014 in the Education category! For this year's list, InTheCapital…
Free Ebola Webinar Series: "Training Health Workers for Ebola—Protection, Detection, and Response"
Frontline health workers in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia are responding to the largest Ebola outbreak in history. To protect themselves and their communities,…
M&E Technology Meeting in Zambia Connects Online Learning Offline
At TechChange, we're always looking for ways to make online learning more interactive, engaging, and relevant for busy, global professionals interested in technology and…
3 Takeaways from the 2014 M&E Tech Conference in D.C.
On September 25 and 26, over 200 development practitioners and technologists filled FHI 360's conference rooms and hallways in Washington D.C. to discuss the…
6 Ways Technology is Helping to Fight Ebola
As Ebola continues to ravage Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, people from all around the world are working together to stop the disease. In…
ICT4Drinks: DC Edtech Edition with TechChange and General Assembly
It's the event that all DC edtech enthusiasts have been waiting for: TechChange is teaming up with General Assembly DC to host this month's…