Decodis

01/09/2025

📖 NEW ARTICLE ALERT: Our CEO Daryl Collins and Project Manager Rohini Roy co-authored a Stanford Social Innovation Review article together with Omidyar Network clients Sushant Kumar and Sarvesh Kanodia. This article unravels how Decodis’ deep listening methodology is broadening impact measurement into strategic adjustments of the customer value proposition.

Read the full article to understand this new approach https://ssir.org/articles/entry/deep-listening-for-impact-measurement #

How AI-driven text and voice analysis can transform impact investing strategies.

12/12/2024

💪Power of partnership! This week, our CEO, Daryl Collins, and Project Manager, Bamzi Banchiri, are attending the convening for the Gates Foundation Digital Connectivity for Women and Girls strategy (GEDC) in Nairobi, Kenya. Partners and stakeholders gathered to share insights and strengthen collaboration toward closing the digital gender gap for women and girls. Some powerful takeaways from our team:

✅ Decodis and other GEDC partners are building knowledge and insights around gender-specific barriers and opportunities.
✅ Greater visibility is needed into each other’s efforts to build on our initiatives.
✅ Together, we’re bridging the digital gender divide! 🤝

12/05/2024

🤝Decodis, Quicksand, and YUX Design have partnered on the Digital Personas project, leveraging the approach of the Foundation Pathways Project. Digital Personas will provide a nuanced and actionable understanding of women’s ability to use technology for improved livelihoods, accessible healthcare, and empowerment.
Donors, private companies, governments, NGOs, and think tanks can use Digital Personas to drive the creation of technological solutions that address women's unique vulnerabilities.

Visit decodis.com/DigitalPersonas to learn more about our implementation of the Pathways platform.

11/26/2024

🦃✨ This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for the moments we shared together as a team during our in-person retreat and meetings throughout this year. These times together have strengthened our bonds and mutual admiration for one another. Not to mention, this has also sparked remarkable progress in our workstream. Here’s to continuing to innovate, collaborate, and grow together.

11/21/2024

🚨Happening now! Our Lead Linguist Derry Moore and our CEO Daryl Collins are at the 2024 Pathways Global Convening in Nairobi by invitation of the Gates Foundation. This event brings together individuals and organizations that are working on developing and implementing the Pathways approach and platform worldwide.

🤝Decodis, Quicksand, and YUX Design are partnering on the Digital Personas project, which leverages the Pathways platform to create personas quantitatively mapped to the Pathways segments in Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal. These Digital Personas will provide deep, actionable understanding of the factors that enable and constrain women’s ability to use technology as a tool for improved livelihoods, accessible healthcare, and meaningful empowerment.

Visit decodis.com/DigitalPersonas to learn more about our implementation of the Pathways approach.

11/14/2024

Where innovation meets impact: our team is making a real difference! We are proud to welcome our 17th team member Dhananjay Agarwal as our Senior Solution Architect. Together with the data science team, he is spearheading the growth and development of our database.

"It's been incredibly fulfilling to contribute to innovative solutions for real-world challenges alongside a talented, diverse team. The supportive environment here makes me feel connected to meaningful work that truly makes a difference.

Meet the other 16 team members here: decodis.com/who-we-are

11/01/2024

Some surveys about young American adults conclude that they are fatalistic about how much government can do. Ahead of the election, Decodis self-funded a one-day Instagram ad and captured the voice responses of 150 young American adults aged 18-30 through one of our automated interviews. We were amazed by the responses: these participants really talk. And they say more in an automated voice survey than they would in a live one. In fact, six times as much.

Check out Part 1 of our Young Adults Talk to Decodis series.

10/24/2024

It's our that drives us to innovate and exceed expectations, so we are proud to welcome Elorm Mensah. He has been working with us for the past months and we are thrilled to have him on board as a Project Manager.

"You should never underestimate a great team. It propels innovation and emboldens you to solve problems and give your best to the clients you serve. Decodis has a culture that dares you to bring your best self to work every day. My first months, put simply, were awesome! 😎"

10/17/2024

demands continuous evolution to serve the nearly 2 billion people who remain excluded from the formal financial system. Especially after COVID, digital financial services have become essential to boost this inclusion. Our CEO, Daryl Collins, shared some of Decodis’ insights in a conversation with BBC News Talking Business this summer.

Learn more about digital finance projects at decodis.com/our-work

10/10/2024

Financial stress can be detrimental to employee mental health, making financial wellness an essential part of the conversation for this . How can employers help reduce this stress?

In a research study conducted for PayPal’s Employee Financial Wellness program, we captured the stories of employees and their financial wellness journeys since joining the program. These stories revealed valuable insights that resulted in opportunities for employers to support this journey towards becoming financially well as a complement to a mental health program. Read more about these insights here:https://filecache.mediaroom.com/mr5mr_paypal/185737/PP_WellnessDiaries_02_2023.pdf

10/03/2024

Meet the faces behind our technology: Our tech and data science team are meeting this week in Pune, India for this year’s Decodis to make further advancements in our back-end automation. We take pride in how far we have come in the last four years of operations. Our team continues to be motivated by listening to hard-to-reach people in local languages.

👆Swipe through the photos to see the team in action.

09/26/2024

At this year’s Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, it was very interesting to see how stories about digital fears directly impact digital tools' product and service design in the Indian fintech landscape.

These stories are very similar to the ones that arose from responses to a series of skits we incorporated into our survey methodology. The skits, delivered in local language to 3,000 participants in India, Kenya and Nigeria, gave us a more nuanced understanding of participants' experiences and perspectives.

To learn more about our skits methodology, visit https://www.digitalportfolios.decodis.com/skits