Open civic prototype
What’s happening in Southall?
Local reporting, community voices and official democratic records — connected in one place, with the original source always visible.
Latest
Southall civic timeline
Help widen the Commons
Submit a source
Know a local publication, residents’ group, community organisation, campaign or public-data source we should follow? Send it for review. Submission does not guarantee inclusion.
Open by default
Founding documents
The working assumptions, source census and architecture are public so they can be questioned, corrected and improved.
About this experiment
Open civic infrastructure.
The Civic Commons connects information that is already being published independently. Sources keep their own websites and identities. Every item links back to the original.
Southall is the starting point. A borough-wide service would recognise Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale and Southall as distinct civic places.
This is an early prototype. Topic and place classification is deliberately simple and may be wrong; provenance is kept visible so mistakes can be found and corrected.