Kerala Rising: From Exporting People to Exporting Ideas · Page 142 of 353

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS

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.
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