Idea 465 of 500. Cluster 24: Proof and trust, as a business
A public register of every trade certificate issued, checkable online by an employer abroad
The mechanism, from the book
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.
Every idea in cluster 24 uses this mechanism.
A first step
With the agreement of one training centre and its past students, put the certificates it issued last year on a simple web page, each checkable by its number and showing the name, the trade and the date. Send the link to 3 recruitment agents abroad and ask them to check one. If an agent says a checkable certificate makes a worker easier to place, offer the same to 2 more centres for a yearly fee.
- Who pays first
- A training centre that wants its certificates trusted abroad, and pays a yearly fee so that any employer can check them online.
- What leaves today
- A certificate nobody abroad can check is treated as worth nothing, so a skilled worker is hired as unskilled; a public register lets the skill be paid at its real price.
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. SixThe Fridge by the Road
The fridge by the road: proof that the rules hold - Ch. FifteenThe Odds
13 of 101 countries made it, and what Singapore's prosecution cost
More from cluster 24
- 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
Idea 465 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.