KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS TERM WH A T I T M E AN S I N T H I S B OOK Reward Partner A local business that honours points and appears in discovery, paying a modest subscription to participate. Patron A diaspora chapter, alumni network, corporate, or individual funding named, audited, renewed civic sponsorship through the Trust. Persistence check Re-verifying an asset (a pit, a tree) in a later season so that the reward attaches to the living asset, not the moment of creation. The politicaleconomy rule The binding design constraint that every program makes its partner department more visible and effective, never redundant. Configuration vs construction A new program is configured from existing components, not constructed from scratch, which is why the marginal program is cheap. Inference A single run of an AI model on one submission; here, the unit cost that has collapsed to a fraction of a rupee. The S-curve The shape of population-scale behaviour change: slow, then fast after a tipping point, then settled as the new norm. The loyalty onramp The points-at-local-shops mechanism whose only job is to make the first few civic actions low-friction enough to happen. Phase gate An evidence-based go/no-go decision point; each releases the next tranche of 334