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Bridging the Digital Divide: Why Mobiles, Markets and Moore’s Law Matter
Remember to toast the birth of the World Wide Web this Saturday—just don’t buy it a drink. It was only twenty years ago that Tim Berners-Lee loaded…
Cross ‘Worry’ Off your Holiday List with Cloud Storage
Deck the halls, wrap some presents and pour yourself a tall glass of eggnog: Cloud storage gives you one less thing to worry about this holiday season.…
The ‘Donkey Bloggers’ Satire: Azeri Journalists Free from Detention
On July 4th 2009, Emin Milli — blogger and one of the Alumni Network founders —spoke at “a Heinrich Böll Foundation roundtable dedicated to a democratization process…
Zero Force: Using Social Media to End the Use of Child Soldiers
Romeo Dallaire may be best known for his book titled Shaking Hands with the Devil. Since retiring from his illustrious military career, he has taken on a…
Is e-Learning Inferior to Face-to-Face Instruction? (e-Learning Series)
TechChange is excited to launch a new blog series dedicated to e-Learning for educators and trainers. The series will highlight emerging technologies, best practices in instructional design…
TechChange Photographer Goes to Haiti
In August of this year, Keith Lane, professional photographer and a member of the TechChange team, went to Haiti to document, through photography, whether and how the…
Jumo: Day 1. Our First Impressions of the Social Network for Social Causes
Yesterday, Jumo released its beta platform to the world, but the launch was far from seamless. Founded by Facebook Co-founder Chris Hughes, Jumo bills itself as a…
YouTube Censored in Turkey: On Again, Off Again
Chad Hurley, co-founder of the video-sharing website YouTube, has recently stepped down from his position as CEO. And the Turkish court has stepped down from the Web…
The Humanitarian Crowd Source Debate Heats Up
In his recent article on MobileActive.org, Paul Currion posed the question, “If all You Have is a Hammer, How Useful is Humanitarian Crowdsourcing”. Currion argued that those…
Elections, Human Rights, Censorship, Twitter: A Special Time for Burma
The people of Burma will vote on Sunday — for the first time in 20 years — but domestic reporters are “prohibited from going within 50…
Technology and Do-It-Yourself Development
A couple weeks ago, Nick Kristof published a New York Times article titled DIY Foreign-Aid Revolution and Dave Algoso wrote an excellent critique just a few days…
Refugee Health: The Potential of Mobile Health Technology
Mobile health technologies are one of the fastest growing, arguably most innovative new platforms that utilize the power of mobile phones. As mentioned before by Jordan Hosmer-Henner…
Keeping Face in Censored Cyber World via Circumvention Tools
Happy National Cyber Security Awareness Month too all you tech-savvy, Internet loving folk out there! Let’s Celebrate — by examining The Berkman Center for Internet & Society…
Social Media Encouraging Non-Violent Resistance in Kashmir?
There has been much buzz recently in the social media community about a recent article published in The New Yorker magazine titled “Small Media” by Malcolm Gladwell.…
TechChange Advisory Board Meeting: Reconnecting with Partners and Planning for the Future
On October 15th, 2010, TechChange staff, advisory board members, friends and colleagues came together at our office in Washington, D.C. to reconnect a…
Regulating the Saudi Arabian Blogosphere via Licensing?
In September 2010, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report titled “Looser Rein, Uncertain Gain,” A Human Rights Assessment of Five Years of King Ab…
SMS:Legal and Mobile Service Provision
It's hard for ICT4D evangelists to avoid the perception that they have an irrational belief that technology will immediately fix all the world's probl…
Community Radios and Mobile Phones: A Perfect Match
Despite dramatic increases in global internet penetration, many people still depend on radio as their primary connection to the outside world. However…
Micheal Wesch on How New Media Mediate Our World
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead. Mar…