Cluster 24 of 28. Ideas 451 to 465
Proof and trust, as a business
The mechanism
The one thing. A country where people do not expect the rules to hold cannot build anything else, and proof can be manufactured by private people, one published record at a time.
The 15 ideas
- 451A verified-review platform for Sri Lankan businesses where the reviewer is real and the review cannot be bought
- 452Escrow services for transactions between strangers, so that the money moves when the goods do
- 453Published price lists at the tourist sites and in the taxis, with a complaints line that answers
- 454A landlord and tenant rating service, since neither can currently check the other
- 455Contractor registries with completed jobs photographed and clients named
- 456Independent building inspection, so that a buyer abroad knows what was actually built
- 457Court-record and land-registry search services for the buyer abroad
- 458Supplier-audit services that a foreign buyer can commission before the first order
- 459A website where every open tender is listed in one place, so a small firm can find it and bid
- 460Charity accounts published by a volunteer auditor, with a mark for those that do
- 461Mystery-shopping services that sell the report to the business and publish the score
- 462Notary and document-checking services for Sri Lankans abroad in their dealings at home
- 463An escrow service for buyers abroad: the money is held until the goods arrive or the work is confirmed done
- 464Consumer testing of products against their claims, from cinnamon grade to solar-panel output
- 465Skill-certification bodies whose certificates employers abroad accept, because they test