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Breaking news! The most engaged online participant in TC116: Blockchain for International Development will receive 1000 Stellar Lumens (currently worth around $220 according to CoinMarketCap or possibly useless according to The Economist). ...but why? With an online model of flipped classroom...

By Neil Blazevic, TC116 Student (Also published on Medium) At DefendersTech we have spent years training human rights defenders and journalists in the East and Horn of Africa on security tools including email encryption tools such as GPG. These tools...

Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t, but blockchain is the most disruptive technology in decades.  So, what is “the blockchain”? Source: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-17 At its most basic level, blockchain is a decentralized distributed ledger technology (DLT) or store of...

It has been two months since the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, went into full effect. The GDPR was passed by the European Union on May 25 and requires organizations to be accountable for protecting any personal information of...

Kyriacos M. Koupparis, a USAID professional and a recent TechChange alum, completed our four week course "Blockchain for International Development" this past February. He was able to use what he learned from the course to organize a three-day blockchain workshop for...

Mitch recently joined the TechChange team as our GDPR Research Fellow! Mitch just graduated from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada with a Masters in Public Policy, where he focused on digital development, data privacy, and technology policy....

For the sixth year in a row, TechChange was honored to host three brilliant girls from the TechGirls State Program. The program encourages Middle Eastern and North African teenage girls to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. Over...

This article was written and contributed by Kate McAlpine , Director of CCR Tanzania. Community for Children’s Rights [CCR] is a Tanzanian social enterprise that is building and mobilizing a community of civically minded citizens across Eastern and Southern Africa...

Despite abruptly having to stop his university studies, Benjamin Flomo was able to find a career as an M&E professional after completing TechChange's Technology for Monitoring and Evaluating Diploma Track in June 2017. Benjamin shared his experience with us below....

Nancy recently joined the TechChange team as an Instructional Design fellow! She is a rising junior from Swarthmore College, where she studies Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies. We recently sat down with Nancy to learn more about her...