#civic-knowledge-sharing

Evidence of which civic interventions actually work is scattered across PDFs, news and council minutes, and rarely stored in comparable form. A community facing a problem others already solved cannot find that record, so it re-invents the fix and repeats avoidable mistakes.

An open platform structuring civic problem-solving as a shared graph: issues split into sub-issues, each issue gathers competing solutions, and every solution collects case studies with real outcomes, costs and metrics. Semantic search and voting keep it navigable and honest.

CommunityFix.org was designed and built solo as an open-source civic-tech project. The premise: the bottleneck in local problem-solving is not a shortage of ideas but the absence of a structured, shared place to record…