TechChange partners with a variety of organizations to administer dynamic and innovative courses, workshops, simulations, and lectures. Learning experiences are tailored to each partner’s specific needs and can range in length from an afternoon to several weeks. Contact us at info [at] techchange.org for more information.

Sample course topics include:

• Introduction to Technology and Social Change
  
• Mobile Phones for International Development: New Platforms for Public Health, Finance, and Education
• New Technologies for Educational Practice
• Global Innovations for Digital Organizing
• Technology Tools and Skills for Emergency Management
  
• New Media and Citizen Journalism in the 21st Century

Sample training: Technology for Crisis Response and Effective Governance in Kisumu, Kenya (July 2011).  

With Kenya’s elections rapidly approaching in 2012, the need for local election monitoring and management capacity is growing. Over the course of four months TechChange worked with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Partnership for Peace project in Kisumu, Kenya to design an in-person training program that introduced local leaders from the Nyanza, Western and Rift Valley Provinces to FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi mapping software. TechChange team members Charles Martin-Shields and Jordan Hosmer-Henner traveled to Kisumu and successfully implemented a complex election monitoring simulation which allowed participants to develop proficiency using FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi for monitoring elections as well as supporting general governance tasks such as public health and agricultural development.

Platforms we provide training in:

• Ushahidi & SwiftRiver
  
• FrontlineSMS
• M-Pesa & Mobile Money Transfer Systems
• Open Street Map
• Twitter

Sample training: FrontlineSMS Training for Professionals in Washington DC. (May 2011)  Read more about it on our blog.

Also check out the university courses we deliver at American, George Washington and George Mason Universities.