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Read our occasional blog posts for stories from our partners mixed with a few of our own
We are excited to introduce Robert Guerra as a co-facilitator in our upcoming course, TC114: Basics of Digital Safety. Robert is the founder and executive director of Privaterra, a Canadian based organization working with private industry and NGOs to assist...
Digital safety training is a social awareness issue. We are typically taught at a young age how to interact in society, but rarely are we taught how interact in the digital space. With more than three billion people around the...
TechChange alumni are always doing amazing things. They have launched mHealth apps to help with HIV prescriptions in South Africa, started mapping projects for maternal health in Ghana and more. Today, we feature an alumna from our Mapping for International Development course, Dominique Narciso! Since...
This year, we kicked off our first TechChange summer fellowship. We had three fellows join us in our TechChange office in Washington D.C. We sat down to chat with one of our Tech Fellows, Nithya Menon, a rising senior at...
We are so excited to announce our newest initiative: A Diploma in Technology for Monitoring and Evaluation! Over the past five years, we’ve been providing skills to over 6,000 alumni in more than 170 countries. During this time, we’ve been...
Featured Image: Gardens for Health International’s agricultural agents complete a mental mapping exercise in Ndera, Rwanda. At Broad Street Maps, we believe that health is inherently a geographic issue. In the U.S. today, your zip code is a better predictor...
Green infrastructure hasn’t always been a priority in urban development. Now, more than ever, green spaces are an essential component of urban design to build healthy, livable cities, and urban planners have jumped onboard. They have started integrating green infrastructure,...
While many people were watching the final match of the Women's World Cup last week, the Hacking Team was hacked. Hacking Team, an Italian digital security company, provided surveillance software to law enforcement agencies. Their clients are government agencies, but...
This is the second post in our Digital Pedagogy series, where we will share how we are trying to make online social learning even better with new learning activities. Check out the previous post here. As an educator, I’m always...
What does urban design have to do with mental health? By 2050, at least two-thirds of the global population will live in cities, which means urban public health is fast becoming a priority. Policymakers, architects, designers, urban planners and others...