Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year Everyone! Daily Positive (D+) would like to take this opportunity to Thank You again for your support and interest in 2011. It has been a busy, productive and fun year for us all – with some memorable moments that involved you. We wish you great year ahead and look forward to see you in 2012 and let 2012 be a positive year for all of us.

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Thank You from the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 Initiative

On behalf of Daily Positive (D+), we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their supports to the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 (WMPC'11) initiative. It was a great success!

We look forward to see you at our future events and we welcome you to discover and share daily positives at Daily Positive (D+).

Here is a picture from the event. For more visit http://www.facebook.com/dailypositive

For more on the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 (WMPC'11) initiative visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

Let’s join and celebrate with D+ at the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 initiative presentation

Daily Positive (D+) invites you to join the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 (WMPC'11) initiative presentation on 25 November 2011. A summary of the event is provided in the following:

What: World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 (WMPC'11) initiative presentation ceremony
When: 25 November 2011, 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Where: Lecture Theater 3, Level 2, ICT Building, The University of Melbourne, 111 Barry St., Carlton, Melbourne, Australia
Dress Code:  Formal / Smart Casual

If you want to join this event, kindly let us know by 18 November 2011 at info@dailypositive.org.

The event will consist of

• Welcome and Introductory Speech
• Founder Presentation
• Closing Speech and Refreshment

For more visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

Australia topped the list of the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011

Australia is the most positive country in the world! Daily Positive (D+), a non-profit wiki-based project, has revealed today the list of World’s Most Positive Countries in 2011. The homeland of Kangaroos and Wallabies has topped the list, with the United States of America and England securing the second and third positions respectively.

The list of world’s 10 most positive countries 2011 is the first of its kind to recognize the positive achievements, initiatives and actions accomplished by each country of the world. Each country was assigned a score and ranked based on a number of factors, including ratings from external experts panel, global D+ volunteers/journalists,  D+ social media fan, and weighted rating based on the most number of positive entries and visitors to each country page on D+.

Top 10 World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 along with respective ranking points are as follows:

 Country Name                         Total Score

Australia                                           4053
United States of America               2463
England                                            2389
China                                                1515
Germany                                          1173
Japan                                                1141
France                                              1001
Canada                                              965
New Zealand                                    864
India                                                  852

Australia clinched the title of the world’s most positive country in the global poll of over two thousand participants from all over the world.  Approximately 25% of the voters quoted Australia as the top most positive country. In the global poll Australia was highly praised as one of the rare developed nation which avoided the recent global financial recession with minimal concern.

Apart from that Australian page on D+ was the most visited page in 2011. Also Australian, Japanese and the Americans were the top three nations who visited D+ the most in search of positivity.

The United States of America ranked 2nd in the global poll, however, the United States page on D+ had the most positive news entries than others.

England, France and Germany were seen as of the new global leaders, overtaking the United States in the face of the recent Arab uprising and European financial crisis.

Japan, China and India made it to the list for their respective positive achievements and actions. Japan was recognized for overcoming one of the worst nuclear fall-outs in history and still remained dignified, China made it - even being in the midst of all kinds of negative news related to human rights - because Chinese has shown the positive hardworking spirit to the world community and India was recognized for overcoming the stigma of being one of the poorest nations.

Finally, Canada and New Zealand were recognized as silent achievers.  

Apart from the winners there are many notable points that came out of the world’s most positive countries 2011 initiative, such as, Libyan revolution was considered as positive amidst concern about the future, Brazil’s determination to come out of the shell of third world countries was considered commendable and Zambia was hailed for undertaking successful election to ensure the smooth transition of power from the incumbent to a candidate from opposition camp.

For more information on the World’s Most Positive Countries 2011 initiative visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

Vote for World's Most Positive Countries

Daily Positive (D+) invites you to have your say in selecting 10 Most Positive Countries in the world –an initiative from Daily Positive (D+).

Vote for your favorite countries which you believe had most positive achievements and initiatives in 2011 and help D+ reveal the 10 Most Positive Countries in the World.

• Join http://www.facebook.com/dailypositive
• List names of 10 countries.
• Send the list to info@dailypositive.org with optional comments on your list.
• Mention your name or Facebook ID that you used to be our valuable fan.

For more visit http://www.dailypositive.org/Most_Positive_Countries

Which will be the most positive country of the world?

DailyPositive (D+) launched the 2011 Most Positive Countries initiative on 1 September 2011. A list of 10 most positive countries with highest positivity index will be revealed on 1 November 2011 and an award ceremony will be held on 25 November 2011.

The D+’s Positivity Index quantifies positive achievements, initiatives and actions accomplished by each country of the world. Each country will be assigned a score based on the following factors:

• External expert panel rating.
• Internal D+ volunteer-journalist panel rating.
• D+ social media fan rating.
• Higher rating for most visited country pages on D+.
• Higher rating for most visitors (from each country) on D+ in search of positivity.
• Country page with most number of positive news where current news weighted higher than historical news.
• Higher rating for equal distribution of positive news throughout the year.

You can have your say by

• Simply visit D+.
• Share positive news about your favorite countries on D+ or at info@dailypositive.org.
• Stay tuned for the upcoming poll on Facebook where you can vote for your favorite countries.

For more on the initiative visit Most Positive Countries.

Let’s Make The First Positive Step

While meeting people from all around the globe I found each individual is full of talent and capacity. However, lack of positive thinking and confidence stop most of them from achieving their goals. Also it is harder to make them think global and assure them that they are equally important as any other individuals in the world.

This is an important issue and needed to be addressed. Thus Daily Positive (D+) was formed. Daily Positive or D+ is a wiki project to accumulate, store and publish positive news and information from all the countries of the world. D+ collects news for each of the 365 days of the year and spreads notable, extraordinary and uplifting information from each culture.

We believe D+ will help provide everyone that confidence required to achieve their goals by publishing positive news from each corner of the world. The aim of the project is to facilitate positive energy among world communities and build mutual friendship and awareness.

D+ is also synonymous with different blood groups, such as, A+ and B+. Blood is the essential substance of life as is positivity. D+ aims to ensure the circulation of positivity in the world community at a time when it's most needed.

Let’s then discover and share positivity on Daily Positive (D+).

One Knowledge, One Work for World Communities

I started this blog to post entries related to my dream of One Knowledge, One Work project. For last few years I had the privileges to work closely with people from different background, in particular, I worked with local groups in my native land Bangladesh to create jobs for young people. These experiences provided me the tangible certainty to expand the One Knowledge, One Work project worldwide.

In the process I learned lots of lessons and gained valuable experiences. I observed Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be a great tool to ensure a necessary “knowledge” for each person in the world which I believe can lead to ensure a “work” for everyone. It is possible, provided we are able to reach the global population with the help of ICT.

This will also allow the ICT-based businesses to grow their horizon beyond one’s imagination. As of this writing Facebook is running towards maturity with more than 500 million active users whereas the total population of the world is 6.92 billion. Even though, only Facebook does not represent total Internet users but it indicates significant amount of people are still outside the scope of ICT. I believe success for ICT based businesses, in future, relies on the ability to reach more and more people all around the globe.

I also learned few other things. I am looking forward to share them with you in my future posts.