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Today we are excited to announce, in conjunction with our friends and colleagues at Ushahidi, one of our first new 200-level courses: Ushahidi: Frameworks for Effective Platform Management, a four-week, online course running this summer from June 4th - 29th....

This post is cross posted from Charles Martin-Shields', TechChange's Director of Conflict Management and Peacebuilding Programs, blog Espresso Politics.   Just got back from ICTD 2012 down at Georgia Tech, and am excited about the state of the field.  This conference is a...

This is a guest post from Laura Ogden, an alumna of our course, TC104: Global Innovations for Digital Organizing. If you're interested in learning more about using technology for democratic change we're running the course again in May.    [caption...

By Gerard McCarthy and Christopher Neu   Please note that this post pertains to a customized course developed with IREX for alumni of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program in Pakistan, a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,...

  Editor’s Note: This post has been revised to reflect corrections submitted by PeaceTXT and Sisi Ni Amani I’ve long been interested in how new media can play a unifying/integrating role vs. a divisive/partisan one and, in this regard, I...

Next monday (Feb 20th) we begin the TechChange four week certificate course on New Technologies for Educational Practice. I’m excited to announce that rockstar educator Daryn Cambridge, Director for Knowledge & Digital Strategies at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict...

This past week, Raymond Besiga, my co-fellow on the Global Health Corps fellowship, and I met with Dr.  Paul Muyinda, a leading mLearning practitioner in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2008 Makerere University, started a mobile broadcast system of one way communication...

Makerere University is one of the oldest and most well reputed universities in East Africa. As a leading institution in the field, Makerere, or Mak (pronounced Muuk) as it’s affectionately called, has had a prolific distance learning program since the...

Tomorrow I'll be giving a talk at George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution on how emerging technology and crowdsourcing can enhance academic research in conflict-affected settings.  The TechChange team will be there for the talk, and I'll be...

This post was contributed by Ferya, a participant in the TechChange course: "Global Innovations for Global Collaboration" developed for IREX for alumni of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program in Pakistan, a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,...