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The end of September 2011 witnessed scattered renewed protests in Sudan against the hike in prices of food and other basic necessities. There is hope that these “food protests” can be a game changer for Sudan’s citizens if we take...

Cross-posted from The Stanford Social Innovation Review by Roshan Paul and Alexa Clay This is the second in a series of interviews where we speak with leading innovators who are appropriating lessons from open source thinking—once purely the domain of...

Cross-posted from The Stanford Social Innovation Review by Roshan Paul and Alexa Clay This is the first in a series of interviews where we speak with leading innovators who are appropriating lessons from open source thinking—once purely the domain of...

  How do you turn a panel discussion in Washington, DC into a global conversation? On Friday September 16, TechChange partnered with the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) Center of Innovation: Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding and George Washington University (GWU)...

[caption id="attachment_2859" align="alignright" width="202" caption="mLearing 1900s style"][/caption] Adults and adolescents with Atopic Dermatitis in the USA, expectant mothers in Ghana, young teachers in Finland and pharmacists in Uganda all have one thing in common, they are part of the growing mobile...

We’re excited to announce that we’re partnering with the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) for this Friday’s event (9/16) on Sifting Fact from Fiction: The Role of Social Media in Conflict. Held in Washington, DC, this event will examine the...

We’re excited to start our online course on TC103: Tech Tools and Skills for Emergency Management. We have an incredible group of participants enrolled in the course: 46 people working in 26 countries from organizations like Mercy Corps, UNDP, Voice...

I had the opportunity last fall to ghost write the background paper for the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Study Guide on “The Impact of New Media on Peacebuilding and Conflict Management.” This will be used for USIP’s annual high school...

Mobile phones remain vital for reaching the masses in the Middle East (as discussed in a previous post), but what’s less clear is what to do once you have them on the line. As mobile penetration rates continue to climb,...

Cross-posted from the USAID GBI blog. Google’s Sub-Saharan Africa office is funding a project by Steve Song to create a comprehensive map of all terrestrial broadband fibre-optic cables in Africa.  Using crowdsourcing methods and contacts within the ICT4D space, Song...