KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS HOW IT COULD BE GAMED TH E C O NT RO L TH A T C LOSE S I T Ghost volunteers padding an institution’s rank. Identity binding; presence checks for on-site categories; published audit of the top-ranked institutions. Table 11.2, Volunteer Kerala: gaming vectors and controls. Objections, answered Volunteering’s objections centre on neutrality and on gaming of hours. Q. Won’t a faith-and-institution leaderboard become divisive? A. It records hours, not affiliations, and surfaces no religious or political marker in any ranking. The ledger’s entire credibility depends on no community feeling it is a proxy for something else, so neutrality is a hard design rule, not a courtesy. Institutions compete on service rendered, full stop. Q. What stops a friendly coordinator from inflating hours? A. Two-party verification, periodic audit of sign-offs, anomaly flags on implausible totals, and a single deduplicated ledger so one shift cannot be claimed by several bodies. The top-ranked institutions’ records are published for audit, which is itself a deterrent. Q. Why fund a program that earns almost nothing? 172