Proposals · Part VI · Year Zero, the Lighthouses and the Pilot Centres
Bringing the public in
Five ways in for diners and the public, from lightest to heaviest: follow, name a dish, give, volunteer, decide.
Hawker culture belongs to the people who cook and the people who eat, so both should shape the plan; hawkers can stop it through the co-design thresholds, and diners hold it to account through the sunset clause and a later public ballot. Anyone can follow the work through plain updates on what was decided, what was spent and what the evaluator found. Anyone can name the stall and dish they would most hate to lose, which feeds the Endangered Dish Registry as one signal among several, never a popularity vote on rescue. Once the endowment exists, a gift of any size is matched dollar for dollar until the $10M matching pool is used. People can volunteer as dialect interpreters, oral-history helpers or hands at the exhaust blitz and events. Later, an open public ballot on the plan's main choices would be held beside the hawkers' own vote and published in full.
Who pays
The library gives this mechanism no who-pays tag of its own.
Who gains
- Diners
- Follow it, name the dish you would most hate to lose, give, volunteer or, later, vote in an open public ballot (§6.2.1).
- Hawkers
- The hawkers' own vote stays: any public ballot is held beside it and published in full (§6.2.1).
Where the library discusses it
§6.2.1 · §6.2 · §3.6 · §6.6 · §7.6 · the Budget Book, B.6.1
Note: A subsection of §6.2 Co-Design With Veto. The open public ballot is a later step, and §6.2.1 gives no mechanics for it.
Related proposals
Sources
- Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. Written reply to PQ 3030: safeguarding and transmission of traditional hawker trades (2026-10-07)
- Hawker Centre 3.0 Committee (chaired by Dr Amy Khor). Hawker Centre 3.0 Committee Report (submitted to MEWR, 3 Feb 2017) (2017-02-03)
- Singapore (prepared by NHB; approved by the Singapore National Commission for UNESCO). Periodic report on the implementation of the 2003 Convention, cycle 2020–2024 (signed 11 Dec 2024) (2024-12-11)
- National Heritage Board (Roots.sg). Inventory of intangible cultural heritage: Hawker Culture (ICH-050, updated March 2019) (2019-03)
- Singapore Hawkers' Celebration and Awards
- UNESCO. Decision 15.COM 8.B.6: Hawker culture in Singapore (inscription; the warning on "excessive and uncontrolled marketing") (2020-12)