Why We're Trying Google+ Hangouts On Air (And Why They Might Fail)
Google's relatively new service, Hangouts On Air, provides a powerful tool for live streaming videos to a mass audience. In an effort to streamline how we run live events, we…
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An 'Urgent' Call for Voices of Youth Mappers
Maps can represent many things – adventure, discovery, a journey, a return home or even a sense of order – but now they are also representing youth empowerment. In 2011…
Want to Become the Voice of TechChange?
Ever wanted to become a famous voice actor? Now is your chance. Over the next month, we will be holding virtual auditions to find the next Voice of TechChange. The winner…
Charting the Future of Capacity Building for mHealth
Last month, 130 doctors, nurses, development workers, techies, government officials, and academics from 35 countries joined us on an exciting four-week journey through the latest developments in mHealth. Imagine how…
TechGirls @TechChange for #JobShadow Day!
Last Thursday, TechChange was proud to participate in the TechGirls program by inviting two young women from the Middle East to shadow our team during a work day. While we've…
Simple, User-Friendly, and Effective: Is uReport the Next Killer App?
Imagine you're a citizen in a country where over half of the population is under the age of 18 and few are over the age of 55. You enter the job…
TechGirls are Coming to TechChange!
The first step to closing the ever-widening technology gender gap is getting more young girls excited about technology. This is the goal of the State Department-led TechGirls international exchange program,…
Social Movements and Social Media: Spark a Movement, Change the World
On September 17, 2011, a handful of people gathered in Liberty Square in Manhattan's Financial District and sparked a movement that brought wide scale attention to income inequality and the…
Congrats Rob! How The US Government Is Cultivating A Bumper Crop of Intrapreneurs
As you can probably tell, we're all very excited here at TechChange. Former TechChanger, long-time Ushahidi guru, and eternal Zen Archer Rob Baker has been selected as part of the…
Innovative Employment: Here come the Intrapreneurs
Want to change the world with socially minded and innovative ideas, but bills, student loans and lack of investment opportunities are pushing you away from entrepreneurship and towards jobs that…
Evaluating Crisis Backups and Balloons: What’s Next for BRCK and Loon?
It’s no secret that we’re passionate about the power of volunteer technical communities here at TechChange. We helped link volunteer communities with response organizations for the Digital Humanitarian…
Teaching at TechChange: Crowdmaps, cell phones, and zombies
When I graduated college two weeks ago, I thought I was done taking classes for a while. Yet, instead of hanging out with friends, finishing season 4 of Arrested Development on Netflix, or even…
Entrepreneurs in Institutions: Why Intrapreneurs are so Valuable to International Development
Is it possible to be an entrepreneur AND work for a large organization? Intrapreneurship, defined as entrepreneurial behavior within an established bureaucratic organization, is offering new graduates,…
“Technology is the Easy Part” in mHealth
With high expectations for mobile health initiatives, and a proliferation of pilot projects (see this map from Uganda), it can be easy to forget that the mHealth field is still young. Like any emergent…
Education Access for Everyone, Online.
Traditional education in the US has long been required to accommodate those with disabilities through statutes like the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), but online learning has lagged…
Why Kevin Spacey and Netflix Will Save Online Learning
Big data is already giving us better TV shows. Could it also help build a better education system? This week our team went to 1776 Reboot: Education Meetup, where we heard from leading experts from…
Four Reasons Why Universities Aren’t Ready to Move Online
Co-authored by Mike Brown. The future of higher education may be online, but the present is still a mess. The New Yorker recently published a thorough exploration of MOOCs and higher education.…
How The State Department Is Seeding Open Government
The following is a guest post by Christian Douglass, a TechChange alumni from TC104: Digital Organizing and Open Government. What makes the Open Government Partnership – seemingly another multilateral…
#mHealth101 Twitter Chat on May 17th – Free Seat Giveaway!
Our mHealth: Mobile Phones for Public Health Online Certificate course will run for its second time from June 3rd – 28th and we couldn’t be more excited about it. Along with The mHealth Alliance, we…
ICTs for Violence Prevention at the World Bank
This past Thursday and Friday (May 8 & 9) I participated in the ICTs and Violence Prevention workshop hosted by the World Bank’s Social Development Office. We had an excellent collection of experts from…