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 # ethical-assessment
-As of January, every new project at D4D goes through an ethical assessment in order to have a repo. Because the Global Data Ethics Project is a flagship partner project for D4D, we are incorporating ethical frameworks into our data work!
+As of January 2019, every new project at D4D goes through an ethical assessment in order to have a repo. Because the Global Data Ethics Project is a flagship partner project for D4D, we are incorporating ethical frameworks into our data work!