What works in Reykjavík
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Evidence snapshot for Reykjavík
Better Reykjavík — Iceland's AI-Assisted Participatory Governance Platform has run since 2010 as a participatory governance platform. However, the practice description in the CONTEXT is incomplete and does not provide quantified results, specific outcomes, or substantive details about Reykjavík's governance, participation rates, or impact. The available evidence is insufficient to summarize what this platform has achieved or demonstrated about the city.
Drawn from: Iceland Equal Pay Certification Standard (ÍST 85) — Mandatory Equal-Pay Law 2018 · Kvennafrídagurinn — Iceland's Women's Strike for Equal Pay and Recognition of Unpaid Work · Mandatory Equal Pay Certification — Iceland's Jafnlaunastaðall (2018) · Ísland ljóstengt (Iceland Fibre-Connected) · Better Reykjavík — Iceland's AI-Assisted Participatory Governance Platform · Iceland's National & Reykjavík Four-Day Week Trials (2015–2019) · Iceland's Gender Autonomy Act (2019) — Self-Determined Legal Gender Recognition, With an Acknowledged Intersex-Protection Gap · Iceland's National Shorter Working Week Trials — From Pilot to a 36-Hour Norm
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Teacher capability & pedagogy +29 pts 67 here · 37 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +20 pts 67 here · 47 average
Sustainability +16 pts 94 here · 78 average
Transferability / replicability +15 pts 75 here · 60 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Effectiveness +12 pts 80 here · 68 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Impact on gender equality +9 pts 80 here · 71 average
Scalability beyond pilot +9 pts 71 here · 62 average
Weaknesses
Efficiency -13 pts 20 here · 33 average
Equity & inclusion -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Evidence of learning impact -26 pts 0 here · 26 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Reykjavík. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Iceland Equal Pay Certification Standard (ÍST 85) — Mandatory Equal-Pay Law 2018 · 100
Kvennafrídagurinn — Iceland's Women's Strike for Equal Pay and Recognition of Unpaid Work · 89
Mandatory Equal Pay Certification — Iceland's Jafnlaunastaðall (2018) · 89
Ísland ljóstengt (Iceland Fibre-Connected) · 88
Better Reykjavík — Iceland's AI-Assisted Participatory Governance Platform · 87
Iceland's National & Reykjavík Four-Day Week Trials (2015–2019) · 86
Iceland's National Shorter Working Week Trials — From Pilot to a 36-Hour Norm · 81
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Bogotá's Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more