TechChange Animates! How We Turn Your Ideas Into Videos
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Check out Our New Media Library!
Well, it only took us a full year of facilitating online courses, but we’re finally sharing some of our original content as part of launching our brand new Media Library. Right now it’s admittedly…
mHealth Summit: We Want to Interview You!
[UPDATE: Thank you so much to all the wonderful speakers who stopped by! We’ve posted many of the interviews in our media library!] TechChange and mHealth Alliance are camped out at the mHealth…
When Nerds Cross the Rubicon: How Military Veterans Are Revolutionizing Disaster Response Networks through Better Technology
“Team Rubicon is doing for disaster response what the Obama team did for political campaigns,” said Jonathan Morgenstein while taking a break from tearing down moldy drywall in hurricane-damaged…
Maps, Texts, and Video, Oh My! Following the Road to Crisis Response and Good Governance through Technology
This post was originally published on the NDITech DemocracyWorks blog by Lindsay Beck (view original post), a student in TechChange’s recent course at George Washington University. For more…
A New Partnership to Provide Online Training for Media Professionals in E. Europe
TechChange is excited to announce a new partnership with Transitions (TOL), a Prague-based journalism and media training organization with a focus on the post-communist countries of Europe and the…
mHealth Preview: Laura Walker Hudson on SMS and Social Change
In preparation for our upcoming course on Mobile Phones for Public Health, we wanted to share our most recent attempt to blend compelling narration with informative animation. In this short clip,…
Announcing the Scholarship Winners to Mobile Phones for Public Health!
The Winners: Susanna J Smith and My Nigeria Hospitals We are excited to announce that My Nigeria Hospitals (@mynig_hospitals) and Susanna J Smith (@SusannaJSmith) are our winners for one free seat…
What is ICTD Anyway?
[Maximizing Mobile Infographic. Source: World Bank] This is a guest post by Joellen Raderstorf, a participant in the TechChange course: TC105: Mobiles for International Development. You can follow…
Sneak Peek of the Upcoming mHealth Course with TechChange! PLUS a Special Announcement
This piece has been crossposted from Health Unbound. If you’re interested in learning more, please visit our course page on mHealth: Mobile Phones for Public Health. On November 14th the Mobile…
The Value of Real-Time Video: How OpenTok Has Improved Our Online Engagement
OpenTok helps us bridge self-paced content and real-time video engagement. If you're interested in exploring our platform, check out our upcoming course on mHealth: Mobile Phones for Public Health, organized…
Online-first event planning: Leave the bagels, keep the connectivity
Best practices conferences are critical to the growth of any community. The sharing of ideas and capturing of collective lessons-learned allows for those both in attendance, and those reading any…
Activation Successful: The Digital Humanitarian Network Simulation at ICCM
The past weekend was busy for the crisis mapping community, with a very full four days of events at the International Conference on Crisis Mapping. While the ignite talks and self-organized…
ICCM 2012 Webcast: Powered by TechChange!
Go to the live webcast (starts Friday, Oct. 12 at 2:00pm) Good news, everyone! TechChange has been asked to livestream the second day of the 2012 International Conference of Crisis…
Goodbye EpiSurveyor: Hello Magpi!
This has been reposted from the DataDyne blog. If you're interested in learning more about this topic and Magpi, check out our upcoming course with the mHealth Alliance on Mobile Phones…
6 Tech Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: The TechChange Secret Sauce?
Interested in learning with TechChange? Check out our upcoming course with the mHealth Alliance: Mobile Phones for Public Health. Class starts on Nov. 12! This month we introduced a new…
It's Not About the Technology: Reflections on the First Two Days of Running an Online Course
This piece has been cross-posted from The Amani Institute. Read the original post. You think carefully through the strategy for starting a new educational organization with an online course. You…
Field Update: Mobile Phones and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka
Interested in learning with us? Check out our next course on Technology Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, starting Oct. 1. Apply now! What does it mean in a country transitioning from…
Field Update: Tech Training for Governance and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
This past week I had the privilege of meeting and working with fifteen fellows from across the African continent who came to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a two-week training organized by…
Five habits of effective presenters: Mobile Phones for International Development (TC105)
As we prepare to launch the next iteration of online course Mobile Phones for International Development on September 24, we wanted to talk about what some speakers have done in the…