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The following is a guest post by Christian Douglass, a TechChange alumni from TC104: Digital Organizing and Open Government.  What makes the Open Government Partnership – seemingly another multilateral good governance initiative -- worth watching? It’s not because it’s grown...

Our mHealth: Mobile Phones for Public Health Online Certificate course will run for its second time from June 3rd - 28th and we couldn’t be more excited about it. Along with The mHealth Alliance, we have had six months to...

This past Thursday and Friday (May 8 & 9) I participated in the ICTs and Violence Prevention workshop hosted by the World Bank’s Social Development Office.  We had an excellent collection of experts from across academia, NGOs, and government who...

This is a guest post by Dhairya Dalal. If you are interested in using crisis mapping and using technology for humanitarian relief, conflict prevention, and election monitoring, consider taking our course Technology for Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. Overview Recently, I...

We’re excited to partner with the mHealth Alliance yet again to offer our Mobile Phones for Public Health for open enrollment. And we think it matters: When it comes to IC4D (or M4D) projects, even the best technology is often...

When something breaks mid-class it can be awfully hard not to blame your students. But the truth is that nobody cares about the tech you're used to using or how it works optimally. They care about what works right now....

On February 26, USAID received the “Best Government Policy for Mobile Development” award at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress 2013. And while the Mobile Solutions team was receiving an award in Barcelona, TechChange and the MS team were also receiving over...

Our OpenGov 101 Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a Semifinalist in the Knight News Challenge! Submitted in partnership with Global Integrity, we’re hoping to develop a global curricula to connect the open government community with the tools, experts, best...

THE FUTURE IS HERE! But why is it so hard to apply technology to development challenges in the field? This video with Laura Walker Hudson of Social Impact Lab explores this question in more depth, with topics including: Getting harried...

Thanks to our new partnership with iHeed and Mobento, you can now search for content inside our educational videos, as well as store them on your Android phone for offline use. Earlier this month, we were excited to announce that...