How can we ensure that data powered positive deviance empowers people? 1. Do no harm 2. Understand and address power dynamics 3. Treat people as active users, not passive providers 4. Make the data you collect accessible to others medium.com/data-empowerme…

"There is, however, no guarantee that the data powered positive deviance method will be applied in a way that empowers people. In fact, without careful planning, it may even exacerbate existing power inequalities" medium.com/data-empowerme… AP Richard Heeks

How can we learn from outliers? In her recent lecture, Basma Albanna explores her use of traditional and non-traditional data to identify and understand development-related outperformers bit.ly/3sEQuXb

Why do some Global South researchers succeed against the odds? Using data-powered positive deviance to understand the characteristics and practices of positive deviant researchers ict4dblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/10/glo… ht AP

Apply and work with Basma Albanna and GIZ on a data-powered positive deviance project in India

Join the team to test how cities can use data to become more democratic and sustainable

"We have taken an important first step in demonstrating that digital data can be used to identify positive deviants, and to some extent scale their practices" dppd.medium.com/what-happened-… Kudos AP Basma Albanna

Great to see the DPPD team around Hodan Ahmed working on the Positive Deviance inquiry following the quantitative data analysis stage acclabs.medium.com/rangelands-def…

"With [data driven] positive deviance we take a different path. We assume that a solution to a given problem exists. We try to find those who own the solution and help them replicate it" blog-datalab.com/home/dppd-mast… AP

"EO-based outcome measures range from use of remote sensing derived vegetation indices (e.g., SAVI, NDVI) to identify climate-resilient agricultural communities to finding healthier community-managed wetlands using Sentinel-2 based classification and change over time."

Listen to Basma Albanna and Richard Heeks discuss the origins, projects, and impacts of the data-powered #PositiveDeviance approach to development; identifying those who outperform their peers in delivering development goals: soundcloud.com/globaldevinst/…

Thinking about the possible unintended consequences of a data project before, not after data collection blog-datalab.com/home/dppd-mast… Reflections by AP

This is absolutely not how anything works.

1⃣Die “zweite Welle” reiten 2⃣Verpflichtenden Datenzugang erwägen 3⃣Daten kollektiv denken Drei Vorschläge zur Ausrichtung des Deutschen Dateninstituts: andipawelke.com/blog/deutsches…

Is there a (bigger) role to play for non-traditional data in the systems work of #globaldev orgs? andipawelke.com/blog/system-in… by AP

[One to wach] AP and Simon Höher are on a journey to reframe public sector innovation in Germany (and beyond) protocol.ghost.io/oeffentliche-i… (Vaughn Tan you might like the emphasis on structurally admitting "not knowing")

🚨NewProjectAlert🚨 Ich habe mit AP einen Ort zum Reflektieren über systemisches Arbeiten gestartet, um effektive öffentliche Innovation jenseits von Buzzwords zu gestalten. Wir starten mit einer einfachen Frage: Was läuft hier eigentlich schief? protocol.ghost.io/oeffentliche-i…