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TechChange and Kurante are excited to kick off the 2014 ICT4Drinks series with a Back-to-School happy hour on Thursday, January 30th from 6-9pm at 14K Lounge. (RSVP Now) It’s now a new year and a different month since we failed together...

How has the use of ICTs to collect election observation findings evolved over the past decade? By Michael Baldassaro (@mbaldassaro), Innovation Director, Democracy International (@Democracyintl) Over the past three decades, election observation conducted by independent international and domestic organizations has...

For the first time, an international observation mission will utilize mobile devices and formhub for collecting real-time data from its observers. I’m here in Egypt as part of the election observation mission with Democracy International, where 80 international observers are...

This year, Starbucks announced that it would make its internet speed in coffee shops 10 times faster by switching from AT&T to Google. Though it has not revealed which 7,000 locations around the U.S. would receive the new Google internet...

Tech entrepreneurs of the world unite! Last Friday, TechChange was proud to present on a short panel for The Tunisia Community College Scholarship Program (TCCSP) at the 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, MD. The Thomas Jefferson Scholarship Program, TCCSP “builds...

Recently, we posted how excited we are to be approaching 10,000 Twitter followers and shared 3 lessons we’ve learned on building a brand with a social media community. To celebrate our global online community of learners, we are offering a...

The release of the South Sudan Ushahidi map has spurred an online dialogue on the possibilities and challenges of how we understand crowdsourcing, big data, and technology for conflict management and peacebuilding. A series of blog posts from Chris Neu of TechChange, Daniel...

When is it ethical to either restrict or share information during violent conflict? Two tweets summarized the information challenges of the South Sudan Watch crisis map will face in the coming days.  Tweet #1: Is it ethical to restrict information...

Spreading violence in South Sudan threatens thousands of civilian lives, political stability in the region, and even outbreaks of transmissible disease (NYT). As the fog of the initial outbreak of war begins to clear, the question becomes how the international...

Last week, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, stopped by our booth for a quick interview on mHealth at the 2013 mHealth Summit. As the founder of the Grameen Movement, he shared his thoughts with us on the relationship...