Kerala Rising: From Exporting People to Exporting Ideas · Page 305 of 353

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS

KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS
OWN S T H E
C A P A BI LI T Y
?
P RODU C ES
BE H A V I OUR
C H A NGE ?
TRUS TWORT
H Y WI TH
C I V I C D A TA ?
Do nothing
differently
n/a
No and
status quo
persists
n/a
Spend more,
same approach
Partly
Weakly.
Supply not
demand
Yes
Procure vendor
apps
No, vendor
owns it
Maybe, per
app, in silos
Depends on
vendor
Startup / private
platform
No, equity
holders
Possibly, fast
Questionable,
private
incentives
This framework
Yes; state,
permanent
Yes. Closes
the loop
Yes, public,
audited,
lawful
APPROACH
Exhibit 20 – The framework measured against its real alternatives.
Read across the table and the framework’s case is
not that the alternatives are worthless, several have
genuine merits, but that only the institution-andreuse model scores well on all of ownership,
behaviour change, and trust at once. The
alternatives each sacrifice at least one: the status
quo and more-of-the-same fail on behaviour change;
the vendor and startup models fail on ownership
and, in the startup’s case, on trust. A state that
wants durable behaviour change on civic outcomes,
owned in the public interest and trusted enough for
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