Students gain research skills while working on TASCHA projects
During winter quarter 2015, TASCHA held a research seminar open to University of Washington students. The research seminar was originally designed to get students involved with our Information Strategies for Societies in Transition project. So many students registered for the seminar, though, …
Myanmar: Temples and towers
Incredible temples range across Myanmar; from the magisterial Shwe Dagon in Yangon to Bagan’s sprawling complexes they show the country’s rich Buddhist art, culture and heritage. The monks often built them high up, as in Mandalay Hill, above. Sitting closer to God and above the everyday,as in …
What role do MOOCs play in workforce development? New project launched to find out
Online courses have the potential to expand quality education and career training worldwide, but few people in developing countries access them. Now, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and CourseTalk.com, the largest source of reviews of online courses, are launching a …
Advancing MOOCs for Development
How can online education, like MOOCs, best help young adults across the developing world grow successful careers?
“Lifers,” Computers and Kids Community building and technology education in Tacoma’s Al Davies Boys and Girls Club
The ICTD field is filled with individual success stories extolling the benefits of ICT access and fluency. These stories are often highly influential because they are rhetorically powerful, memorable narratives that create lasting frames to contextualize and interpret other data. Unfortunately, they…
Mentors and Computers: Developing work and life skills in the Boys and Girls Clubs of Bellevue Washington
The ICTD field is filled with individual success stories extolling the benefits of ICT access and fluency. These stories are often highly influential because they are rhetorically powerful, memorable narratives that create lasting frames to contextualize and interpret other data. Unfortunately, they…
ICT Training and the ABCs of Employability: YearUp’s jobs program for urban youth
The ICTD field is filled with individual success stories extolling the benefits of ICT access and fluency. These stories are often highly influential because they are rhetorically powerful, memorable narratives that create lasting frames to contextualize and interpret other data. Unfortunately, they…
The Spirit of Volunteerism: Re-building Civil Society and Delivering Jobs through Youth Networks in Turkey
The ICTD field is filled with individual success stories extolling the benefits of ICT access and fluency. These stories are often highly influential because they are rhetorically powerful, memorable narratives that create lasting frames to contextualize and interpret other data. Unfortunately, they…
María Teresa: Centro Comunitario Santa Fe Evidence Narrative Worksheet
Evidence Narratives are a Center for Information and Society project designed to broaden and deepen our understanding of the impact of Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD).
Our intention is to choose examples of ICTD implementations carefully and to write about them…