My friend Suman Maradani sent me this mail recently:
This is an idea that sprung up during the last of the load shedding hours for the day yesterday, so don't take it that seriously. It was an interesting thought exercise I had and thought I'll share to see if there's any merit/potential.
- The core idea is to build a 'massive collaborative social game' - essentially around the power situation, especially for places like Bangalore.
- Has shades of the pitting citizens against citizens by the Joker in Dark Knight :)
- Essentially, there's an app, which uses location based info, realtime info from Bescom etc, shows locality/sector wise current usage, whether a power cut is looming, the threshold for hitting it etc - I guess you see the point
- Really pit people collectively in a sector/group against other such groups - so they can reduce their own power usage appropriately (in their own small ways, but all that adds up) and avoid the dreaded load shedding or gain enough credits etc to reduce the duration, hence the pain etc.
- There's obviously a massive social aspect/element to it - collective gains, social psychology etc
- Situation about power etc will always be under crunch even in the future (even water for that matter)
- Volumes (of users) are obviously massive
- Today, there aren't any solutions and it's pretty unidirectional - bescom decides (has no choice) and flips switches. Maybe the collective social wisdom can evolve to solve it collectively in a fun and engaging way, which is a win-win for all involved
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