What's next?
From directory to Discoveries – the Civic Atlas has evolved.
🔎It started by helping people get a picture of what civic activity was happening where in Birmingham.
💡Today it observes those activities and identifies potential opportunities, gaps and patterns worthy of further exploration.
🧠Future versions will broaden the net and build on the growing body of Discoveries to identify higher-order patterns and connections.
| Version | Capability | Key outcome | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0 | TBD | The first major capability built on Atlas Memory. | ☀️ TBD |
| v0.9 | Discover Patterns | Identify and selectively publish higher-order patterns across accumulated Discoveries. | ✅ Released |
| v0.8 | Understand 'Place' | Explore multiple overlapping geographic definitions, not just wards. | ✅ Released |
| v0.7 | Make Observations | Discover potential connections across Birmingham's civic ecosystem. | ✅ Released |
| v0.6 | Understand wards | Build rich profiles of electoral wards, combining civic, demographic and community information. | ✅ Released |
| v0.5 | Understand organisations | Build evidence-based profiles of organisations and the wards they actually operate in. | ✅ Released |
| v0.2–0.4 | Find by place | What's in this ward? | ✅ Released |
| v0.1 | Find organisations | What charities exist? | ✅ Released |