TechChange is a US

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which provides courses on the use of technology in addressing social and global challenges. Their e-learning platform "has been used by more than 600 students from more than 70 countries." It is a registered

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based in Washington, DC and was founded in the summer of 2010.

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dubbed TechChange as ”the Geeks for Good”.

Courses

TechChange provides 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.

Activities

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

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, to create the first online certificate course in

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. 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

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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 ''

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'', '' Stanford Social Innovation Review'', ''

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'', and Dowser.org.

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