KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS Contents A manifesto for a better Kerala.............................................6 A brief for the office that would decide this..........................9 An evaluative brief on this framework................................16 If pursued: an implementation summary.............................23 Preface: a better Kerala is buildable...................................31 A note on how this book was made.....................................40 Three Keralas, already possible..........................................42 PART ONE · WHY KERALA CAN LEAD AGAIN.............45 1. How cultural change happens at scale............................46 2. How a society changes its own habits.............................57 3. Why this needs an institution, not an app.......................67 4. Build it once, use it everywhere......................................77 5. How the AI pays for itself................................................87 6. A common shape for every promise................................98 What the AI can and cannot do, honestly..........................102 PART TWO · SEVEN PROMISES TO KEEP.................106 The evidence base for the seven programs.......................107 7. Clean Kerala..................................................................111 8. Safe Roads Kerala.........................................................126 9. Water Secure Kerala.....................................................139 10. Tourism Excellence Kerala..........................................151 11. Volunteer Kerala.........................................................163 12. Healthy Kerala.............................................................175 13. Green Kerala...............................................................188 Seven programs, compared on one page..........................200 A reader’s exercise: the eighth program...........................203 PART THREE · WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE ON THE GROUND..........................................................................206 14. Eighty-odd situations, one machine.............................207 4