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Anyone who has planned a conference knows that they’re a lot of work. Lining up speakers. Coordinating room schedules. Coming up with discussion topics. Promoting the event so that people show up. And, oh yeah... learning stuff! That’s important too....

The recent four-week online certificate course on TC105: Mobile Phones for International Development was our largest and most diverse class to date with 70 participants from 32 countries. Given the immense demand we've decided to run it again this summer...

During the tense electoral standoff in Cote d’Ivoire after incumbent Laurent Gbagbo refused to vacate office following his defeat, the hashtag #civic2010 was used to report abuses by dissident forces as well as refugees' movements and needs. In Malawi, the...

Description: The campaign to #StopKony is approaching a critical transition. On April 20th Invisible Children will launch its Cover the Night campaign on the heels of one of the most successful viral videos of all time. Moving forward from online ‘awareness-raising’,...

Zombies have started to make their way into the DC Metropolitan Area! Yesterday the TechChange team delivered another FrontlineSMS simulation, this time set against the backdrop of a Zombie Apocalypse. The training was part of Challenge Accepted 2012 a weekend conference for undergraduates...

This article was first published on the The Asia Foundation's blog, In Asia. By Melody Zavala  “Just because they are poor and isolated doesn’t mean they don’t have the potential to be the next Bill Gates,” said Shahed Kayes, the founder...

Until recently, most health clinics in Uganda, and indeed across the continent of Africa, transmitted all of their data manually, sometimes by phone, but in most cases by sending messengers overland to each clinic -- big, small, urban and rural...

  Thanks to TechChange resident conflict analysis and data guru Charles Martin-Shields for cross-posting this from his site Espresso Politics.  We're really excited for this to be presented at Tech4Dev!  Hey everybody, I'm pretty excited to have had a paper...

We’re excited to announce that GeoPoll will be running a live mobile SMS poll in Tunisia for our upcoming course Mobiles for International Development! GeoPoll will create a pilot survey that leverages the experience of its 70 mobile health professionals...

This article has been reposted from the Huffington Post. Read the original article. By: Stephanie Rudat, Kevin Malone, and Christopher Neu     "It may have been just noise to you and inspiring for someone else, but at the end...