Location Washington, D.C., USA Website www.techchange.org Founded 2010 | Area served Global Founder Nick Martin | |
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Focus ICT4D, Technology, Social Change Method Distance Learning, Capacity Building Key people Nick Martin – President & CEO | ||
TechChange is a US social enterprise which provides courses on the use of technology in addressing social and global challenges. It is a registered benefit corporation based in Washington, DC and was founded in the summer of 2010.
Activities
TechChange delivers online certificate courses on a number of topics including technology for emergency management, mobile phones for international development, social media for social change, social entrepreneurship, digital organizing, open government and more.
TechChange also partners with international development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding organizations such as USAID, US State Department, World Bank and United Nations Foundation to deliver online educational content. In 2012, TechChange partnered with the mHealth Alliance, a joint program hosted by the United Nations Foundation, to create the first online certificate course in mHealth.
TechChange produces educational animations for international development topics and tools. In April 2013, a TechChange animation on M-Pesa, the popular mobile money transfer program was featured as the United States Agency for International Development video of the week.
TechChange has been featured in a variety of publications for their new approaches to online learning and capacity building including the New York Times, PBS NewsHour, The Economist, Fast Company, Chronicle of Higher Education, Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Guardian, and Dowser.org.