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The TechChange course on Mobiles for International Development starts on June 18. Sign up now! Have you ever been stuck on the mobile version of a website and were unable…
by Chrissy Martin, cross-posted from her blog, innovate.inclusively. She was a moderator for our Mobiles for International Development course that ran last month. A new session will be starting June…
Anyone who has planned a conference knows that they're a lot of work. Lining up speakers. Coordinating room schedules. Coming up with discussion topics. Promoting the event so that people…
The recent four-week online certificate course on TC105: Mobile Phones for International Development was our largest and most diverse class to date with 70 participants from 32 countries. Given the…
During the tense electoral standoff in Cote d'Ivoire after incumbent Laurent Gbagbo refused to vacate office following his defeat, the hashtag #civic2010 was used to report abuses by dissident forces…
Description: The campaign to #StopKony is approaching a critical transition. On April 20th Invisible Children will launch its Cover the Night campaign on the heels of one of the most successful…
Zombies have started to make their way into the DC Metropolitan Area! Yesterday the TechChange team delivered another FrontlineSMS simulation, this time set against the backdrop of a Zombie Apocalypse. The…
This article was first published on the The Asia Foundation's blog, In Asia. By Melody Zavala "Just because they are poor and isolated doesn't mean they don't have the potential to…
Until recently, most health clinics in Uganda, and indeed across the continent of Africa, transmitted all of their data manually, sometimes by phone, but in most cases by sending messengers…
Thanks to TechChange resident conflict analysis and data guru Charles Martin-Shields for cross-posting this from his site Espresso Politics. We're really excited for this to be presented at Tech4Dev! Hey everybody,…
This article has been reposted from the Huffington Post. Read the original article. By: Stephanie Rudat, Kevin Malone, and Christopher Neu "It may have been just noise to you and inspiring…
We're excited to announce that GeoPoll will be running a live mobile SMS poll in Tunisia for our upcoming course Mobiles for International Development! GeoPoll will create a pilot survey that…
Today we are excited to announce, in conjunction with our friends and colleagues at Ushahidi, one of our first new 200-level courses: Ushahidi: Frameworks for Effective Platform Management, a four-week,…
This post is cross posted from Charles Martin-Shields', TechChange's Director of Conflict Management and Peacebuilding Programs, blog Espresso Politics. Just got back from ICTD 2012 down at Georgia Tech, and…
This is a guest post from Laura Ogden, an alumna of our course, TC104: Global Innovations for Digital Organizing. If you're interested in learning more about using technology for democratic change…
By Gerard McCarthy and Christopher Neu Please note that this post pertains to a customized course developed with IREX for alumni of the Global…
Editor’s Note: This post has been revised to reflect corrections submitted by PeaceTXT and Sisi Ni Amani I’ve long been interested in how new media…
Next monday (Feb 20th) we begin the TechChange four week certificate course on New Technologies for Educational Practice. I'm excited to announce that…
This past week, Raymond Besiga, my co-fellow on the Global Health Corps fellowship, and I met with Dr. Paul Muyinda, a leading mLearning practitioner…
Makerere University is one of the oldest and most well reputed universities in East Africa. As a leading institution in the field, Makerere, or Mak (p…