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Cinematic civic fables. A weekly news brief with AI-assisted context. One app that lets public sector professionals stay current and grow measurably — on the bus, at their desk, or between meetings.
Cinematic civic fables. A weekly news brief with AI-assisted context. One app that lets public sector professionals stay current and grow measurably — on the bus, at their desk, or between meetings.
A weekly brief that pulls from national, local, and specialist civic press. Thematic fingerprinting and entity graphs surface the patterns under the headlines — so a head of policy sees three stories about the same underlying shift, not three unrelated articles. Territory-aware, so a Manchester officer and a Cornwall officer see different feeds.
Fully produced episodes — video, narration, soundtrack — that dramatise a real civic dilemma. Reflections, multiple-choice, and branching decisions are woven in, so learners practise judgement rather than recall. The platform scores responses against a published rubric and awards credentials when the evidence is there.
Each episode animates an original script and targets a specific competency tier — runtime varies by story, but every instalment is built to finish in one sitting. Eight episodes make up Season 1 — a complete arc from civic arrival to social-care finale. Three sample openers below; the full catalogue is on the Episodes page.
A walk through the roots and branches of civic action — the committee room, and the hallway debrief that carries the real decision home.
A housing officer navigates the Homelessness Reduction Act one 56-day clock at a time — compliance, capacity, conscience in a single inbox.
Sam follows three blue lines across a city. Then the algorithm changes its mind — and teaches him what a consultation response really costs.
Episodes 4–8 cover digital exclusion, the Procurement Act 2023, cost reduction, strategic foresight, and a social-care finale that returns to Margaret Chen — the retired mentor who first appears in Episode 5. Every episode, every scene count, every competency tier — in one place.
Every interaction feeds a structured competency map — nine civic knowledge domains, four developmental tiers. When the evidence crosses the threshold for a rubric cell, the learner earns an Open Badges 3.0 credential. It's signed, verifiable, and portable — theirs permanently, whether they stay in the role, move councils, or leave the sector.
Badges are awarded when a learner's interaction scores cross the rubric threshold — not when the credits roll.
Each badge has a public verify URL. Employers and institutions can confirm it independently — no account, no subscription, no expiry.
LinkedIn-shareable, downloadable, portfolio-ready. The badge PNG carries the signed credential baked in — the proof moves with the file.
Nine civic knowledge domains × four Dreyfus tiers (Field Analyst, Insight Mediator, Systems Critic, Strategic Architect). Each cell has a distinct rubric, a rendered badge, and a signed assertion.
Ed25519-signed JSON-LD assertions, eddsa-rdfc-2022 cryptosuite, permanent verify URLs. Interoperable with any OB3-compliant LMS or ePortfolio — no lock-in to ambivalence. See the spec →
Want the theory that sits under the framework? Read The Approach →