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Blog 15th May 2024

Establishing Uruguay's first behavioral unit

Ceibal, the Uruguayan government’s digital technology center for education innovation, embodies these attributes and more. In early 2023, with support from the Inter-American Development Bank, they reached out to BIT for help structuring their own BI unit, the Behavioral Insights/Science Lab.

Blog 15th May 2024

Estabelecendo a primeira unidade comportamental do Uruguai

O Ceibal, centro de tecnologia digital do governo uruguaio para inovação educacional, incorpora esses atributos e muito mais. No início de 2023, com o apoio do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, eles buscaram a ajuda da BIT para estruturar sua própria unidade de IC, o Laboratório de Insights/Ciências Comportamentais.

Blog 8th May 2024

Let’s get to school!

Ceibal’s Behavioral Science/Insights Lab and BIT made an impact on student absenteeism. A multi-component behavioral intervention reduced primary school absences by an average of 6%, equivalent to 1.7 days per academic year. In total, our intervention led to an additional 16,920 days of school attended.

Blog 8th May 2024

¡Vamos a la escuela!

El Laboratorio de Perspectivas Comportamentales de Ceibal y el BIT lograron reducir el ausentismo escolar en un 6% (equivalente a 1,7 días por año académico) a través de una intervención comportamental multicomponente.. En total, el impacto de la intervención se tradujo en 16.920 días adicionales de asistencia a la escuela.

Blog 8th May 2024

Vamos para a escola!

O Laboratório de Insights/Ciências Comportamentais do Ceibal e a BIT tiveram um impacto no absenteísmo escolar dos alunos. Uma intervenção comportamental multicomponente reduziu as faltas na escola primária em uma média de 6%, equivalente a 1,7 dias por ano letivo. No total, nossa intervenção resultou em 16.920 dias adicionais de…

Blog 11th Apr 2024

Could summer jobs stop youth violence?

In many American cities, Summer Youth Employment Programs offer young people from disadvantaged backgrounds short-term paid employment during the long summer break from school. Some of these programmes have been in existence for decades and operate at a huge scale. Given the evidence from the US on violent youth offending,…

Blog 2nd Apr 2024

Meta’s Community Forum on AI

Our ongoing partnership with Meta has yielded strong evidence that deliberative processes are promising mechanisms for platform governance. Last October, building on earlier deliberative processes and our focus on AI, BIT designed and delivered a third Community Forum (CF) sponsored by Meta and working with Stanford University’s Deliberative Democracy Lab. 

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