A social credit system that scores social contribution and awards credits, mobilising youth, institutions and corporates toward volunteering.
If social contribution could be measured fairly, it could be recognised and rewarded. SCALE is a social credit system that does exactly that, giving an Advantage for Learning and Employment.
Using a 360 degree appraisal method, SCALE assesses a volunteer's social contribution and awards them social credits. Corporates that employ those volunteers can use their credits to strengthen their social image. Institutes offering higher education to such volunteers can use the credits to attract corporates and improve placements. The effect is a virtuous loop that pulls youth, educational institutions and companies toward social volunteering, and rewards responsible action by citizens.
SCALE is implemented through SWANS across the country, and has been adopted by the Government of Maharashtra in its Youth Policy.
OASiS developed a Social Credit Calculator in collaboration with XLRI Jamshedpur and IIM Indore, and piloted it for ten years through the volunteer organisation SWANS.
Like carbon credits and environment credits, social credits accumulate over a lifetime, for individuals and for organisations. Unlike them, social credits cannot be traded, gifted or transferred. They can only be used to:
Institutes, corporate houses, organisations and groups can project their own standing by aggregating the social credits of all their members.
Corporate houses, institutes and governments willing to adopt the model are welcome to write to us, and we will help implement it in full.
How a single volunteer’s hours become an incentive for institutions, companies and government.
People of any age, sex, religion, social or economic status (studying, working or teaching) join the volunteer group.
Each volunteer picks a sub-group based on available time, location, area of work and skill set.
People’s representatives share their welfare projects with the group, asking for volunteers and specific skills.
Projects are published on the group’s site and volunteers register, declaring skills and responsibilities.
Each volunteer’s contribution is evaluated using a 360 degree appraisal calculator designed with XLRI and IIM.
Every volunteer receives social credits for the year, displayed publicly on the group’s site.
Each institute or university totals the credits of its student volunteers to build its own institutional score.
Corporate houses recruit students carrying high social credits from those institutions.
Each corporate totals the credits earned by its employee volunteers to build its own score.
That score improves its social image, attracting foreign clients and local customers.
Government rewards corporates holding high social credits through collaborative public private projects.
A people’s representative totals the credits earned by volunteers on his welfare project, building his own score.
Representatives with high totals are trusted with larger welfare budgets and greater responsibility.
That encourages representatives to draw more citizens into delivering welfare programmes.
It encourages corporates to employ and retain more local citizens and youth who volunteer.
And it encourages young people, adolescents and professionals to take part in the first place.
An on field finishing school that grows teamwork, leadership and compassion in young people through social work, shaping them into responsible, capable citizens.
A shared platform that brings community, university, corporate and government together to brainstorm and test solutions for long pending problems, at both grassroots and university level.
Teaches rural development to rural children, 70 percent practical and 30 percent theory, building a local backbone of professionals to run welfare programmes and earn locally.
Whether you bring funds, a fresh idea, or an unsolved problem from the community you serve, there is a way in.
