Amplifying Positive Deviance with ICT - Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Conference Papers Year : 2017

Amplifying Positive Deviance with ICT

William D. Tucker
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Positive 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.
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hal-01650058 , version 1 (28-11-2017)

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William D. Tucker. Amplifying Positive Deviance with ICT. 14th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (ICT4D), May 2017, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. pp.206-217, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_18⟩. ⟨hal-01650058⟩
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