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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...

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...