Amplifying positive deviance with ICT enabling community development and interdependence

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dc.contributor.authorTucker, William David
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-18T12:08:37Z
dc.date.available2018-05-18T12:08:37Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractPositive deviance is a social mechanism whereby a beneficial practice that is not considered as normal gets taken up and spread within a community. This enables a community to solve its own problems aided by mentorship and facilitation. Through two long term case studies, we have identified positive deviants and are now learning how to leverage the ICT inherent in our interventions to cultivate and amplify positive change. We find both ourselves and beneficiary communities developing through various stages of dependence, independence and interdependence. We consider the latter a strong form of development. We now look at ICT4D projects as opportunities to identify positive deviants, and to amplify positive deviance with ICT. We posit that affordable, accessible and generic ICTs offer a way to do so, and that explicitly aiming to mentor and facilitate positive deviance with such ICT offers a path toward community development and interdependence.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTucker, W. D. (2017). Amplifying Positive Deviance with ICT: Enabling Community Development and Interdependence. In J. Choudrie, S. M. Islam, F. Wahid, J. M. Bass, & J. E. Priyatma (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D 2017, IFIP AICT 504) (pp. 1–12). Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Springer.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-319-59111-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_18
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3702
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIFIP Advances in Information and Community Technology;504
dc.subjectComputing and Societyen_US
dc.subjectICT-enabled developmenten_US
dc.subjectmixed methodsen_US
dc.subjectsocial mechanismsen_US
dc.subjecttheory of amplificationen_US
dc.titleAmplifying positive deviance with ICT enabling community development and interdependenceen_US
dc.title.alternativeEnabling Community Development and Interdependenceen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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