As part of Open Data Day 2025, Solvent hosted a workshop, “Open Data for Peace and Development,” in Mukono, Kampala District, Uganda. It brought together tenants, civil society, district representatives, community leaders and open data experts to explore how open data can resolve land disputes and promote peace in Uganda. Participants learned about open land […]
StoryData is a data communication project based in Barcelona. It combines research, analysis, visualisation and storytelling to reveal the stories behind the data. Its mission is to address the current communication gap by rigorously practising data journalism and advocating for the openness of data to citizens, with the aim of democratising public information and combatting […]
Keywords for Black Louisiana, a collective of researchers committed to researching, teaching, and stewarding the history of enslaved and free people of African descent of the Gulf Coast and African diaspora broadly, hosted its fourth Black History in Louisiana summer workshop. This year felt special and important—like an affirmation against enclosure, against fascism, against empire. […]
Bangladesh still isn’t very friendly to data. Researchers and journalists often don’t have access to the information they need. Many decisions in government, research, and daily life are made based on instincts, not facts. Even when national data is available, it’s often locked inside printed reports or non-editable PDF files. That means they can’t be […]
This past year, the Center for Digital Humanities celebrated its tenth anniversary with the theme “Humanities for AI.” Through this series of events, projects, and conversations, we explored how humanistic values and approaches are crucial to developing, using, and interpreting the field of AI. As part of this initiative, we were thrilled to welcome award-winning […]
When we set out in 2019 to build Constellate, our goal was to create a sustainable platform that would provide text analysis access to content in JSTOR and Portico. By the time we sunset in 2025, that had transformed into making the power of computational analysis accessible to any curious mind, whether they were a […]
Spatial Girls Network joined the global village on 3rd March, 2025, in celebrating the Open Data Day 2025, which was within the Open Data Week. The theme for ODD25 was “Open Data to tackle the Polycrisis,” which inspired the theme of our event: “GeoSkills training for climate Action: Empowering Youths with Spatial Data Tools”. One […]
Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend HigherEd PodCon, the first conference devoted to podcasting across higher ed. Thanks to UPCEA, which sponsors my Intentional Teaching podcast, for sending me to Chicago for this very engaging conference! I thought I would share a few highlights from the conference here on the blog. See full […]
I’ve been reflecting a lot about what I don’t like about my pedagogy lately. Recently I began experimenting with ways of refreshing my approach. I learned to manage my sense of failure in the classroom by letting go of trying to cover a lot of content, honoring the knowledge and experience students bring into the […]
On June 3, 2025, the University of Baltimore hosted its second AI Summit, organized by the university’s Center for Excellence in Learning, Teaching, and Technology (CELTT). The event, as described by the organizers, was “an in-depth exploration of artificial intelligence’s transformative impact across sectors, with a particular focus on workforce development, educational adaptation, and responsible […]
