CIVIX
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Visualization previews
Proof-of-concept renders of the thirteen concepts in VIZ_PROPOSAL.md. Each is intentionally rough — enough fidelity to judge the idea, not to ship. Three concepts are honest skip-stubs that explain why they were not built.
Canadian Democracy Coalition
The 479,624-word funnel
Synthesis as a literal compression operation: nearly half a million words of transcript, compressed into 174 actionable proposals.
Bar widths on log scale (log10 of count ÷ log10 of 479,624). All counts drawn from the live home page of joneslee.ca.
The convergence curve
There is a specific n at which a theme stops being an opinion and becomes a sector consensus — higher than most engagements stop at.
Curve is illustrative — shape reflects the expected knee between n=30 and n=45. Real data requires per-interview tagging in 2. TOPICS.csv.
Atlas preview strip
A twelve-card sample of the 151-org Atlas; a link to the full thing sits to the right.
Apathy is Boring
Historica Canada
Max Bell Foundation
DemocracyXChange
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
MediaSmarts
New Majority
Catherine Donnelly Foundation
Euphrosine Foundation
Samara Centre for Democracy
Elections Canada
Sample drawn from organizations-enriched.json. In production, orgs would be randomised on each page load.
The Hidden 95
Most themes surface only once across 58 interviews. Frequency-ranked synthesis throws out the long tail by design.
Directly duplicates CDC's HiddenThemes.jsx. Included here only for completeness; skip on joneslee.ca per VIZ_PROPOSAL.
UN Policy Brief 3 — Meaningful Youth Engagement
What the Brief called for, and what happened
The Brief was not symbolic — between April 2023 and today, specific actions it called for have been taken, partially taken, or are still pending.
- UN Youth Office established (2024) — structural outcome referenced directly in the Brief.
- UN SG Envoy on Youth mandate extended and resourced.
- Youth participation mechanisms in Summit of the Future (2024) negotiations.
- Pact for the Future includes a dedicated Declaration on Future Generations.
- UN-wide youth engagement scorecard published and tracked across agencies.
- Dedicated budget line for youth engagement in each UN Country Team plan.
Status column is illustrative. Real version requires citations pulled from public UN documents — the honest research pass noted in VIZ_PROPOSAL.
The eleventh commitment
Our Common Agenda had twelve commitments. The eleventh — "Listen to and work with youth" — is the one the Policy Brief elaborated.
- 1 Leave no one behind
- 2 Protect our planet
- 3 Promote peace & prevent conflicts
- 4 Abide by international law & ensure justice
- 5 Place women & girls at the centre
- 6 Build trust
- 7 Improve digital cooperation
- 8 Upgrade the United Nations
- 9 Ensure sustainable financing
- 10 Boost partnerships
- 11 Listen to and work with youth
- 12 Be prepared
Commitment titles are approximations of public Our Common Agenda framing; exact wording should be lifted from the UN source before shipping.
Interview-geography map
Not built — and the preview itself is the argument for not building it.
Data not available on disk.
National Municipal Climate Action Accelerator
Full-arc timeline, including the pause
A multi-funder coalition's life-cycle includes stall. Here is what that looks like from 2021 origin emails to the current funding pause.
Milestone dates drawn from file dates in the SUMCA folder (e.g. 2023-020 CEA LOA, 2024.04.16 [funder] Interim Report, 2025.02.26 Handover Report). Pause per live home page.
The coordination hub
Six named institutions held around a shared bet — not as undifferentiated funders, but in four distinct roles.
No per-funder dollar amounts shown — aggregate only. Matches home-page disclosure.
The 600 top-down, the 10,000+ bottom-up
The scope claim on the home page is a specific share of the Canadian municipal landscape, not an abstraction.
The "10,000+ bottom-up" figure on the home page should be reconciled with StatsCan before shipping. Outer rectangle assumes the ~5,100-CSD baseline.
Per-funder contribution splits
Not built.
FES $25M Capital Campaign
The eighteen-year arc
The founder-disclosure is not a footnote — it is a chronology.
All milestones from public sources (FES founding date, campaign targets, case-study frontmatter). Nothing from confidential prospect material.
The campaign structure
A CFRE-led capital campaign commits most of its dollar value before going public.
Phase shares are canonical CFRE-campaign rule-of-thumb, not FES-specific. "Today" marker is illustrative — a live version would violate the self-promotion constraint.
Progress thermometer
Not built.
Two failures in one chart.