Idea 319 of 500. Cluster 15: Software, services and the remote desk
Digital archives for family papers and photographs, a service Sri Lankans abroad will pay for
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
Scan, restore and catalogue the photographs and papers of three families at cost, and produce a searchable archive with names and dates. Show the result to Sri Lankan families abroad through their associations and quote a price per box. Paid bookings from families who cannot sort their papers any other way are the proof.
- Who pays first
- A Sri Lankan family abroad whose parents' photographs and deeds are fading in a house on the island, and who want them safe before it is sold.
- What leaves today
- Family records decay in humid houses or are thrown out, so the island's personal history is lost instead of preserved and paid for.
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 319 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.