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 TechChange has enjoyed working with the Notre Dame Global Health Institute for several years. We're excited to have their Digital ND Lead Architect, Tom Marentette, share some insights on what TechChange is helping students at Notre Dame's Eck Institute for...

TechChange recently worked with Making Cents International and The Rockefeller Foundation to produce a Demand-Driven Training (DDT) Toolkit to introduce, explain, and illustrate the best practices in jobs skills trainings for youth and to engage employers in targeted hiring, training,...

One of the biggest promises of online learning is the potential to create truly data-driven learning experiences. But this same potential also creates ethical grey areas around the acceptable uses of learners’ data inside and outside of the learning experience....

Breaking news! The most engaged online participant in TC116: Blockchain for International Development will receive 1000 Stellar Lumens (currently worth around $220 according to CoinMarketCap or possibly useless according to The Economist). ...but why? With an online model of flipped classroom...

By Neil Blazevic, TC116 Student (Also published on Medium) At DefendersTech we have spent years training human rights defenders and journalists in the East and Horn of Africa on security tools including email encryption tools such as GPG. These tools...

Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t, but blockchain is the most disruptive technology in decades.  So, what is “the blockchain”? Source: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-17 At its most basic level, blockchain is a decentralized distributed ledger technology (DLT) or store of...

It has been two months since the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, went into full effect. The GDPR was passed by the European Union on May 25 and requires organizations to be accountable for protecting any personal information of...

Kyriacos M. Koupparis, a USAID professional and a recent TechChange alum, completed our four week course "Blockchain for International Development" this past February. He was able to use what he learned from the course to organize a three-day blockchain workshop for...

Mitch recently joined the TechChange team as our GDPR Research Fellow! Mitch just graduated from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada with a Masters in Public Policy, where he focused on digital development, data privacy, and technology policy....

For the sixth year in a row, TechChange was honored to host three brilliant girls from the TechGirls State Program. The program encourages Middle Eastern and North African teenage girls to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. In...