Mekelle University (MU), founded in 2000 and located in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, is a research-intensive institution dedicated to advancing knowledge, economic growth, and social welfare both nationally and internationally. As a founding member of the Ethiopian Research Universities Forum in 2025, MU is committed to elevating the visibility and impact of Ethiopian research on the […]
Wikimedia UK’s flagship Train the Trainer (TtT) course returned in summer 2025, bringing together volunteers from across the UK and around the world to develop the skills needed to deliver Wikipedia editing events in their own communities. Designed to build confidence and strengthen diversity, this year’s programme welcomed 23 participants from eight countries, including many […]
Even for those who aren’t movie buffs, the vibrant covers of Cine-Mundial never fail to snag one’s attention, and who could deny the pleasure of watching the evolution of the celebrity magazine unfold over 25 years of Modern Screen. The covers of Radio Age helped listeners transcend the purely auditory experience of early radio and […]
The scientific aim of the Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC) was primarily to compile a corpus of press articles, an under-used type of sources, for two research projects: 1-Youth and Women’s Islamic Activism in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso; 2- Muslim Minorities in Benin and Togo.This open-access database provides access to press clippings from the […]
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 […]
