KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS security score ticks up, and her ward holds first place in the taluk for a second season. A Kudumbashree neighbourhood group has desilted the local pond; the before-and-after sits on the corridor page, and the hardware shop that donated cement is named as a Reward Partner. The panchayat secretary opens her quarterly review with an audited count of functioning harvesting assets, not an estimate, and the open-data well-level dashboard agrees with her. The engine, configured MECHANISM H OW I T I S C ON FI GURE D FOR T H I S P ROGRAM Verified assets earn points redeemable at Loyalty on-ramp hardware shops, nurseries, and masons; the very trades that build the next asset. Social capital & rivalry Wards and panchayats compete on a dryseason water-security index; school ecoclubs run harvesting sprints. Creator voice Practical creators publish build-it-yourself harvesting and desilting guides, indexed and attributed to the corpus. Patron architecture Diaspora and corporates sponsor pond rejuvenation in named panchayats; the Trust reports asset counts and persistence. Table 9.1. The four mechanisms configured for Water Secure Kerala. 142