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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...

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...