KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS Appendix E: Glossary of terms A short reference for the recurring terms of art in this book, for the reader who arrives mid-way or returns to a chapter out of order. TERM WH A T I T M E AN S I N T H I S B OOK The engine The four reusable mechanisms, loyalty on-ramp, social capital and rivalry, creator voice, patron architecture, that turn a verified action into accelerated behaviour change. The loop The three-part feedback cycle (visible audit, economic reinforcement, institutional rivalry) whose closure inflects the S-curve. The institution The permanent, state-controlled, Section 8 Civic AI body that owns the stack and runs the programs; a new kind of public institution, not a successor to or replacement for any existing one. The stack The eight reusable software components built once and configured per program. Verified action The single photographable or sensorcheckable citizen action at the top of each program’s funnel, the thing the AI confirms. The corpus The public, quarterly-published, opendata record of every verified action; the institution’s core asset and the basis of public trust. 333