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Diffusion of Disaster-Preparedness Information by Hearing from Early Adopters to Late Adopters in Coastal Bangladesh
The successful social implementation of a rainwater-harvesting tank can save millions of people in coastal Bangladesh from drinking saline water and health risks. However, previous studies have shown that several potentially effective, innovative disaster-preventive technologies failed to disseminate even after proactive promotional campaigns. People at risk worry about adopting innovative preventive measures because of the uncertainties attached to the new technology, such as its merits, cost, maintenance, durability, social acceptance, etc. Instead of mass media, people rely on social networks to obtain trusted, verified, and personal information. Hearing plays an important role, through which information diffuses from pioneer adopters to late adopters or potential adopters across settlements, starting from the village to district to region. Unlike conventional studies, limited to understanding the regional dimension of diffusion, this study investigated how the information diffuses from pioneer adopters to potential adopters at both the macro-level (e.g., districts, subdistricts, and towns) and micro-level (e.g., villages and neighborhoods). This study was based on field surveys through interviewing 196 innovative rainwater-tank adopters from 30 villages and communities in two subdistricts in coastal Bangladesh. We found that the macro-level pioneer adopters played a critical role in diffusing awareness knowledge, through which people in new villages, neighborhoods, and sub-districts, where mass media and change agents failed to reach, became aware of the existence of the innovative measure. However, macro-adapters alone failed to disseminate the innovation further, as the local communities intend to pay to heed the suggestions and experiences of the local (micro) pioneer adopters to understand the principle and how-to knowledge of the innovation. Information is diffused in the villages and neighborhoods through local pioneer adopters through direct, intimate personal contacts.
Diffusion of Disaster-Preparedness Information by Hearing from Early Adopters to Late Adopters in Coastal Bangladesh
The successful social implementation of a rainwater-harvesting tank can save millions of people in coastal Bangladesh from drinking saline water and health risks. However, previous studies have shown that several potentially effective, innovative disaster-preventive technologies failed to disseminate even after proactive promotional campaigns. People at risk worry about adopting innovative preventive measures because of the uncertainties attached to the new technology, such as its merits, cost, maintenance, durability, social acceptance, etc. Instead of mass media, people rely on social networks to obtain trusted, verified, and personal information. Hearing plays an important role, through which information diffuses from pioneer adopters to late adopters or potential adopters across settlements, starting from the village to district to region. Unlike conventional studies, limited to understanding the regional dimension of diffusion, this study investigated how the information diffuses from pioneer adopters to potential adopters at both the macro-level (e.g., districts, subdistricts, and towns) and micro-level (e.g., villages and neighborhoods). This study was based on field surveys through interviewing 196 innovative rainwater-tank adopters from 30 villages and communities in two subdistricts in coastal Bangladesh. We found that the macro-level pioneer adopters played a critical role in diffusing awareness knowledge, through which people in new villages, neighborhoods, and sub-districts, where mass media and change agents failed to reach, became aware of the existence of the innovative measure. However, macro-adapters alone failed to disseminate the innovation further, as the local communities intend to pay to heed the suggestions and experiences of the local (micro) pioneer adopters to understand the principle and how-to knowledge of the innovation. Information is diffused in the villages and neighborhoods through local pioneer adopters through direct, intimate personal contacts.
Diffusion of Disaster-Preparedness Information by Hearing from Early Adopters to Late Adopters in Coastal Bangladesh
Subhajyoti Samaddar (author) / Sudip Roy (author) / Fatima Akter (author) / Hirokazu Tatano (author)
2022
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