Idea 318 of 500. Cluster 15: Software, services and the remote desk
Podcast and audiobook production in three languages, for Sri Lankans abroad and at home
The mechanism, from the book
The proof exists in Malabe. What is missing is a thousand small versions of it.
Every idea in cluster 15 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Produce one short audiobook chapter or podcast episode in Sinhala, Tamil and English, with clean sound, from an author who agrees to it. Offer it to authors and publishers as a sample, with a price per finished hour. A publisher or author who commissions a full book is the proof, and the listening figures tell you whether Sri Lankans abroad listen.
- Who pays first
- An author or publisher who wants a book to reach listeners in three languages, including Sri Lankans abroad, and pays per finished hour.
- What leaves today
- Books in Sinhala and Tamil seldom reach listeners abroad, so readers among Sri Lankans abroad are lost to the island's writers.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
The stock exchange in Malabe
More from cluster 15
- 296Remote-work hubs in Kandy, Galle and Jaffna with fibre, power and a lawyer who knows the tax
- 297A Sri Lankan software product, not a services firm: one tool, sold by subscription to the world
- 298Accounting and bookkeeping outsourcing for small British and Australian firms, in their time zones
- 299Legal paperwork done for foreign law firms, since the common law is the same and the lawyers are here
- 300Typing up doctors' notes and reading scans for foreign hospitals, overnight, to their standard
- 301Architecture and engineering drafting services for firms in the Gulf and Europe
Idea 318 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.