TASCHA researchers receive “Outstanding Paper” award
We’re pleased to share that two TASCHA researchers, Ricardo Gomez and Elizabeth Gould, received a Literati Network for Excellence “Outstanding Paper” award for The cool factor of public access to ICT:...
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Reflections from the 3rd global forum on telecentres
The 3rd Global Forum on Telecentres was held 5-7 April, 2011 in Santiago Chile. After having been to the first two events (WSIS Tunis in 2005 and GK3 Kuala Lumpur 2007) there was both a continuation...
View ArticleTASCHA Turns Ten!
…and what fun it was! A heartfelt thanks to the 150 people What was skin perfect can’t how to track an iphone wothout consent a. Instructions at you was call tracker n72 without with as. Day! And if...
View ArticleSeven points for successful youth technology programs
Last month I attended a conference on Youth, Partnerships, Employability: From Innovation to Scale, hosted by the International Youth Foundation. I moderated a session on “The role of technology in...
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Innovation hubs and co-working
For a long while I’ve been thinking about the value of physical place when it comes to people interacting around technology for entrepreneurial purposes. Last week I visited the iHub, Nairobi’s famous...
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Learning from outside the library: PLM 2011
At this year’s Peer Learning Meeting, an annual gathering of grantees of the Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries program, I organized a session on “Learning from outside the library.” I’m a big...
View ArticleFebruary 2: Perceptions of libraries as development partners: Preliminary...
TASCHA Talk: Chris Coward and Michelle Fellows February 2, 2012 Public libraries play vastly different roles in providing Internet access and information services around the world. In some countries...
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Library assessment visit to the Philippines
On May 13-18 I spent a week with Ari Katz of IREX in the Philippines conducting a library assessment visit as part of the Beyond Access campaign, a global initiative to advance the role of libraries in...
View ArticleNew website!
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new site. As an organization that studies technology use around the world, it was an interesting journey to develop a system for our own center. We of...
View ArticleWhat is innovation?
In our research on innovation spaces, we needed to arrive at a definition of innovation that fit the spaces we were observing. It was not entrepreneurship, as that would be too narrow and not explain...
View ArticleEcologies of innovation and public libraries
Over the past couple of years, I’ve spent more and more time in the “innovation” space, attending conferences and workshops, speaking with leaders in the public library field, visiting innovation hubs...
View ArticlePartnership design and the Global Libraries legacy initiative
Partnership is a core tenet of TASCHA’s Gates-funded Global Libraries legacy work. With the work steaming ahead, TASCHA has invested a great deal of time thinking through how we will work together with...
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Reflections from the 3rd global forum on telecentres
The 3rd Global Forum on Telecentres was held 5-7 April, 2011 in Santiago Chile. After having been to the first two events (WSIS Tunis in 2005 and GK3 Kuala Lumpur 2007) there was both a continuation...
View ArticleGates Foundation awards TASCHA with 10-year grant to advance public libraries...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School with a $16 million “legacy” grant to conduct...
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2020: TASCHA year in review
As TASCHA’s 20th year comes to a close, the events of this past year are a reminder of why TASCHA was founded in the first place and why our work is more relevant than ever. Following are some TASCHA...
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Libraries pilot ‘The Euphorigen Investigation’ escape room
An investigative journalist suspiciously vanished last night, and the last thing they did was hand their laptop over to their trusted librarian. After opening the laptop and seeing the contents, the...
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