KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS STRUCTURAL RISK WH Y I T I S SE RI OUS TH E M I TI GA T I ON is made more visible by success. Opt-in, recognitiononly, no penalty adjudication, consentfirst data, and an open published corpus. Surveillance perception Civic AI can read as a watching state. Privacy / sensitive data Consent-first logging; no clinical or Health and affiliation data volunteering touch displayed; clinical personal data. work stays with licensed services. Political-cycle risk A change of government can strand a project. Permanent non-profit structure, CAG jurisdiction, state IP ownership; built to outlast a term. The alreadyadvantaged could capture the rewards. Field-operatorassisted logging; leaderboards designed around participation, not only volume; HKS and Kudumbashree as the on-ramp. Equity / digital divide Exhibit 18 – Structural risks and built-in mitigations. We expect to get specifics wrong. A verification model will need retraining. A reward economy will need re-pricing. A leaderboard will need redesigning so it does not entrench the already-advantaged. The 267