In every community, there are individuals or groups with uncommon behaviors who, while having access to similar resources, find better solutions to challenges than their peers. Finding these so-called positive deviants and promoting their solutions is referred to as...
Violence against women and girls (VaWG) is a worldwide phenomenon that occurs in various forms and spaces, unfortunately including where one should feel safest: at home with one's partner or family. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as gender inequality and...
The following piece was originally published by the UNDP Accelerator Lab Network on August, 21, 2020. For more details on the project background, please read our first blog on this series “Launching the Data Powered Positive Deviance Initiative”. At the beginning of...
In our earlier posts we explored the possibilities that the Data Powered Positive Deviance (DPPD) initiative possesses in various contexts, one of which is the identification of Positive Deviants during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a reminder, Data Powered Positive...
Iskriyana Vasileva: "*positividade = positivity in Portuguese. A Brazilian friend taught me the word and its strength and sincerity stuck with me. As the following story is about finding positive outliers, it only seemed right to use it as a reflection of both the...
This blog post was written by Monique Sternin, co-Founder of the Positive Deviance Approach and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Tufts University, Cole Zanetti, DO, MPH, Positive Deviance Facilitator, Director of Digital Health at Rocky Vista University College...
This blog post was written by our partners from the Centre for Digital Development at the University of Manchester and was first published on the initiative's Medium Blog. Positive Deviance and Covid-19 Nations around the world are struggling with their response...
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in agriculture abounds, varying from pest infection control to the employment of autonomous machinery, soil and crops health monitoring etc. Within the experiment “Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture”,...
This blog was witten by our partner Pulse Lab Jakarta as part of the Data for Mobility experiment and previously posted on Medium. As traffic congestion in modern cities becomes more complex and dynamic, continuous streams of data with high...
Doing Our Part: A Community-Based Response to a Global Challenge Within a matter of weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed lives around the globe, disrupting the social, economic, and political landscape. In-person social interactions are constrained while large...