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  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,...

This article is re-posted  from TechChange team member Charles Martin-Shields's website "Espresso Politics".  We thank him for being awesome and sharing his stories from paradise with us.  You can follow him at @cmartinshields.  TechChange has a course coming up that...

This past Fall, I was fortunate enough to participate in an online course offered by TechChange; Mobiles for International Development - TC105. If you're unfamiliar with TechChange, their mission is as follows: "TechChange trains leaders to leverage relevant technologies for...

TechChange Year In Review We've posted the video slideshow of our year in review, but we need your help to pick the accompanying music! Tweet your suggestions @TechChange using #TCParty or just use the comments section below. Suggestions from our...

On November 9, TechChange President Nick Martin and the TechChange team were invited to participate in a roundtable discussion co-hosted by the International Peace Institute and the UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery on crowdsourcing for conflict prevention. The...