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Tech & Society Week 2025 — AI Hazards: Understanding AI Incidents

On Monday, March 17, 2025 from 3:00 to 4:00pm in Fisher Colloquium in Hariri Building on the Hilltop Campus, we will be hosting a panel discussion on AI incidents during Tech & Society Week…

March 12, 2025

Job Posting, News

MDI is Hiring: Summer 2025 MDI Scholars

We are pleased to announce a call for applications for the Summer 2025 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program. For full consideration, the application deadline is Friday, April 4, 2025 at 11:59pm…

February 27, 2025

Events, News

Georgetown University Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2025 for Women’s History Month

Join the Georgetown community to help close this gender gap on Wikipedia by increasing the representation of underrepresented groups — in both Wikipedia content and contributors — on topics such as women in politics, women in STEM, and women in the arts.

February 20, 2025

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What’s Ahead for the Place-Based Indicators Project

The Place-Based Indicators Project was launched with the goal of helping communities turn the masses of data on all aspects of daily life into useful, easily accessible information that can help them …

July 5th, 2023

Green Space Data Challenge Winners: Specific Populations Category

Over the month of February, MDI hosted the Green Space Data Challenge, inviting undergraduate and graduate students as well as early career professionals to use green space data to create or improve i…

June 27th, 2023

Green Space Data Challenge: Community Health Winners

Closing out our series of Q&As with the winners of the Green Space Data Challenge is the top-placing team of the Community Health category.Community Health Challenge Category Winner: Uncovering In…

June 22nd, 2023