We envision selling WishVast to a client such as CYEC (Children and Youth Empowerment Center) in Kenya. They would be able to sign up all the children inside the CYEC village or who are overall a part of the CYEC program. These students would be assigned a task to allocate a total sum of points to their peers. Upon providing this rating, the people in charge of the center could possibly have advanced notice before a problem occurs or will know how to most effectively spend their time working with particular children in the center. 

This scenario would employ a mandatory point allocation process. For example, at midnight every night, the children as part of CYEC would need to allocate their full amount of points (10 points that they get each day) to other kids in CYEC. They would choose to whom to allocate the points. It could be different people each day who get ratings, one day someone could allocate 10 points to the same person, another day someone could give 1 point to 10 different people. The point distribution would be based on the opinion of the person giving the rating about how the recipient of the point used his or her leisure time that day. It is important in a place like CYEC to know that the kids are being productive during their leisure time or staying out of trouble. The goal of adding WishVast, and therefore the value added to CYEC, is that kids would provide ratings to their peers that stayed out of trouble, as opposed to sniffing glue or stealing or doing any number of other things. Students who chose to spend their time more productively and more wisely for a better cause would be rewarded with WishVast points at the end of the day. While these WishVast points don't directly correlate with something else, the administrators at CYEC could choose to create a direct correlation such as a prize each day or each week for the person with the most points. The accumulated points could also be viewed by potential employers in the future to see which children are rated as the most responsible.

This peer review system is something that would be valuable to teach children as well, because they could learn about the importance of feedback and the importance of perception. The blind peer review system has been used on college campuses around the world to good effect for years as a motivational tool to encourage active participation in the achievement of shared and individual goals. Students could also potentially become users of WishVast later in life for more concrete business purposes since they will be familiar with the system and the interface having used it at CYEC.

While a concern of ours was that potential social capital and trust issues would exist surrounding system abuse, we actually think system abuse could have a positive role in allowing an intervention because the administrators would be able to view this. For example, if a group of children decide to create a clique and only give each other points or create alliances like the show "Survivor" and try to only rate certain people, this would be viewable because certain people would never get points or certain people would ALWAYS be exchanging points with each other. These cliques would easily be identified by looking at the numbers, and administrators could have an intervention.

Not only does this scenario engage children who are a wonderful target market because they could use this in a number of ways we haven't even envisioned yet, but it's also a very helpful and sustainable process to ask them to review each other and find out who's doing good things.

Reference:

Children and Youth Empowerment Center - Nyeri, Kenya Community Assessment (2009) http://cyeckenya.wikispaces.com/