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Being a first-time mother is hard, even for those of us lucky enough to have our babies in developed countries. Through the fog of fatigue…
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TechChange ICT4D Training at UN Summer Academy 2014
TechChange Program Coordinator Matthew Heck explains technical aspects of Google Maps Engine to UN Summer Academy Director, Patrick van Weerelt. In June 2014, TechChange Founder…
Information and Communications Technology in the Global Youth Wellbeing Index
Information and communications technology (ICT) is an integral component of the increasingly technology-driven global economic and social landscape. For many of us, ICT has become…
Four Lessons Learned From Trying to Change the World with a Liberal Arts Degree
Did you know that prior to founding an e-learning social enterprise, TechChange President Nick Martin did his undergraduate degree in Modern Poetry? Nick recently returned…
What Does Global Social Media Mean for Social Change Campaigns?
In the last decade, social media has spread quickly across the world and has grown not just in terms of number of users on popular…
Discussing Hashtag Activism on the Radio and in an Online Course
With social media technology changing daily, it can sometimes be challenging to keep up with the latest platforms and their newest features, and the seemingly…
Two Fantastic TEDx Talks about the Future of Education
Over the years I've had the opportunity to work with hundreds of talented educators from all corners of the world. Two in particular who have…
#YesAllWomen: Can a Hashtag Shift Cultural Norms on Gender?
What does the rise of #YesAllWomen mean for social change? In our last post on #BringBackOurGirls, we examined whether social media activism could free girls…
TechChange featured in Forbes Magazine as Scaling EdTech Social Enterprise
With a domain that ends with [dot] org, TechChange is sometimes mistaken for a non-profit organization. However, we are actually a for-profit social enterprise business…
The Future of Online Education According to Venture Capitalist Marc Andreessen
In a timely visit to Washington, DC that aligned with the 25th Anniversary of the World Wide Web, one of the handful of inductees in…
VIDEO: Celebrating the World Wide Web's 25th Anniversary and its Potential to End Extreme Poverty
For many people in the world, it is difficult to imagine what life was like without the World Wide Web. In the last quarter century, the Internet has fundamentally changed the way people…
TechChange President Nick Martin Selected as runner-up for Society for International Development's Rice Award
We're excited to announce that TechChange president Nick Martin was selected as the runner-up for the 2014 Andrew E. Rice Award for Leadership and Innovation by a Young Professional in International…
Video: Accelerating Progress to End World Hunger
Taking the 2014 annual report from the U.S. Government's largest food security initiative and condensing it into an engaging 3-minute video is no easy task. But that's exactly what the creative…
#BringBackOurGirls: Can Hashtag Activism Spur Social Change?
In our modern times of media cycles fighting for our short attention spans, it is easy to ride the momentum of a highly visible campaign that can quickly fizzle out once…
Drawn in 60 Seconds: How to Create a Time Lapse Video Sequence
In preparation for our new Office Warming Party today, our creative team decorated our office with a special chalkboard mural. Check out our new time-lapse video documenting the creation of our chalk…
A Beginner's Guide to Digitally Mapping the Middle East via MapBox's TileMill
Before taking this Mapping for International Development course last fall, I had absolutely no previous background on mapping tools, so everything about digital mapping was new to me. For my course…
Mapping Climate Change Vulnerability in Bangladesh with QGIS, TileMill, and CartoCSS
During my undergraduate work in Landscape Architecture, I learned a method of analyzing spatial data by overlaying various types of information on acetate sheets or tracing paper developed by Ian McHarg, a…
Three Takeaways on Women in Tech from SAIS Global Women in Leadership Conference 2014
Last Friday, the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) launched its second annual Global Women in Leadership Conference with this year's theme on "Technology in Action: Changing the Way…
March Madness Update: Puns, $pecial Ch@racters, and the Shortcomings of Zombies
All of the top seeds survived the first round unscathed. In beating their competition, CAPS LOCK CRAZY, Russian Radio Appeal, The New Cartographers, and The Thorough Beards continued the streak of top…
mHealth Entrepreneurship: From Hype and Hope to Happiness
In the Fall 2013 session of TechChange's online course on mHealth – Mobiles for Public Health, several participants attended the fifth annual mHealth Summit, a dynamic conference welcoming clinical, policy, tech,…