I recently met up with Diana in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to discuss Connect's most recent project: an innovative model that gives seven nonprofits one year of hands-on technical assistance by the Afghanistan Center for Training and Development to improve business practices.
The rural stores required hands-on technical assistance.
Hands-on technical savvy or not, Mr. Branson is diving head first into the digital economy.
Six Sharp aims to provide the best hands-on technical interview preparation through mock interviews.
Engineering is often perceived as a hands-on, technical profession but there is increasing demand for softer skills.
This paper describes a two-month summer intensive course designed to introduce participants with a hands-on technical craft on robotics and to acquire experience in the low-level details of embedded systems.
A new class, Delivering Legal Services Through Technology, combined hands-on technical training with a speaker series to provide LL.M., J.D. and MBA students with both the broader context and the technological know-how they'll need in an evolving field.
Designed with a mix of interactive sessions, plenary presentations, and parallel tracks, participants will learn the basics of impact evaluation, while also receiving hands-on technical assistance to help them design and implement evaluations in the field.
Oxfam and the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust, in collaboration with University of Puerto Rico (UPR), invited MIT D-Lab to lead a hands-on technical training of trainers on water treatment and testing in San Juan.
Everyone on the panel agreed that hackerspaces could provide an exciting model for hands-on technical education in schools, and Dale Dougherty, the founder of Maker Media, which caters to the do-it-yourself movement, said he believed that the high school program that his company was managing would do just that.
These fast-movers focus heavily on decentralized, hands-on, technical leadership.
