How a round runs, from sign-up to the result.
For the officer who would have to run one. People decide, the map shows, the machine drafts, everyone checks. Read this and you could run a round in your own taluka; the software is the same one running in North Goa today.
Five steps, every round
- Say what you need
Each member signs up once and says, in their own words, what they would share or buy with the others.
- Look at the map
The digital twin shows what is here already, what each household or shop could get from a scheme, and what things cost in this place. A map you can ask questions of.
- The machine drafts
Where two needs rhyme, the AI writes a draft, prices it locally, names the scheme that could carry part of it, and signs it as a machine. It never decides.
- Vote on a known sum
One member, one vote, points spread across the ideas. A draft goes to the vote only when one member leads it and another backs it. The result binds.
- On the wall
Paid, approved, asked for and left over sit on the front page for anyone to check.
The two heavy words
A digital twin is a model of a real place, kept up to date, that you can ask questions of before you spend. Think of the sand model an engineer builds of a dam before building the dam, except this one is alive and answers back. Goa's holds every one of its 203 villages and towns, with the Census figures and a verdict on each of 770 state schemes: who is eligible now, who could be. The AI reads what members say they need; where two needs rhyme, it writes a draft, prices it locally, names the scheme that could carry part of it, and signs it as a draft. It never decides.
The common fund, the kitty, is a known sum, in public. Paid, approved, asked for and left over sit on the front page for anyone to check, and the whole round can be exported and checked by an outsider.
What a round looks like on your calendar
- Day 0. A line from your office invites the members of one place: the shops of a lane, the households of a ward, the self-help groups of a block.
- Days 1 to 30. Members sign up and say what they need. The twin drafts where needs rhyme. Members lead and back drafts. The vote closes.
- Days 30 to 60. The plan is approved by the members. Paid, approved and remaining sit on a public page.
- Month 6. The members report what it did for them, on the same page.
The Goa round is running exactly this calendar, on private money, so that a department can watch one finish before deciding anything.
What your office has to produce
- A line inviting the members of one place: the shops of a lane, the households of a ward, the self-help groups of a block.
- One named officer we can call, and who can call us.
- The figures the department already keeps, if the twin is to answer a question about your schemes. Nothing new is collected.
- Four things at the end, which the software writes for you: who the group is, what it put in, what it proposed, what it decided. That is all a group needs to say to join a bigger one.
Everything is open
The code that turns votes into a plan, with a checker anyone can run; the four things a group exports, in a plain file; the scheme catalogue behind the Goa twin, with the rules for who qualifies read from each of 770 schemes; the live board, which needs no login; and the rehearsal, in which a thousand made-up businesses were put through the same software before the first real one signed up. What broke is written up.
Bring one place, one sum, one officer.
If a department, a panchayat, a dzongkhag or a municipal council wants to run a round of its own, with its own sum and its own members, this is built for exactly that.