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Cross-posted from The Amani Institute Blog.   If you’ve been reading the news much in America this past year (or talking to me at all), you’ve likely heard about the current crisis in higher education. And the doomsayers are no...

Editor's note: Dr. Matthew Levinger is a guest author and as such his views do not necessarily reflect the institutional or personal views of TechChange or its staff. His course is not directly associated with TechChange in any way and...

[caption id="attachment_3028" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Image Source: Ushahidi"][/caption] Mini Biography Adam Papendieck has an MPH from Tulane University and a technical background in GIS, Statistics and Information Systems.  He is currently the Sr. Program Manager for Technology at the Payson Center...

After 40 years of rule, Colonel Gaddafi is gone.  Reports say he was killed today in a military offensive in Sirte, Libya after a protracted insurgency that was backed by NATO forces.  While there is room for a conversation about...

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...