What works in Reykjavik
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Evidence snapshot for Reykjavik
Better Reykjavik — Open Municipal Idea Platform shows that Reykjavik has run the world's first city-wide online participatory-democracy platform since 2010, with over 70,000 participants (58% of the registered municipal population) submitting 10,000+ ideas and generating 21,000+ debate points. The platform has directly resulted in nearly 700 citizen-proposed projects being built or under construction across all neighbourhoods, with the city council accepting 64% of proposals that reach deliberation. The participatory budget allocates 450 million ISK (~€3.5 million) annually—representing 4–6% of the city's capital investment budget—though participation in budget votes is lower at 12.5% of the population.
Drawn from: Iceland's 12-Month Gender-Equal Parental Leave Reform (2021) · Better Reykjavik — Open Municipal Idea Platform · KLAK — Icelandic Startups · Lína — Iceland's Student Loan Fund Built an AI Chatbot That Learned to Speak Icelandic in Four Weeks · Grammatek × Hljóðbókasafn Íslands — AI Text-to-Speech Accessible Textbooks for Print-Disabled and Dyslexic Students in Iceland · Votlendissjóður — Icelandic Wetland Fund: National Peatland Rewetting & Carbon Pilot
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Efficiency +48 pts 100 here · 52 average
Equity & inclusion +46 pts 100 here · 54 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +32 pts 67 here · 35 average
Curator validation +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Sustainability +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Effectiveness +19 pts 100 here · 81 average
Impact on gender equality +17 pts 100 here · 83 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Evaluated outcomes +16 pts 100 here · 84 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +16 pts 67 here · 51 average
Transferability / replicability +16 pts 75 here · 59 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +10 pts 100 here · 90 average
Scalability +9 pts 75 here · 66 average
Inclusiveness / equity +9 pts 50 here · 41 average
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -9 pts 0 here · 9 average
Governance, certification & transferability -16 pts 50 here · 66 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -20 pts 33 here · 53 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -39 pts 0 here · 39 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Reykjavik. 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's 12-Month Gender-Equal Parental Leave Reform (2021) · 96
Better Reykjavik — Open Municipal Idea Platform · 86
KLAK — Icelandic Startups · 71
Lína — Iceland's Student Loan Fund Built an AI Chatbot That Learned to Speak Icelandic in Four Weeks · 53
Votlendissjóður — Icelandic Wetland Fund: National Peatland Rewetting & Carbon Pilot · 47
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.
Stadtidee Aarau — Switzerland's First City-Wide Participatory Budget Using the Method of Equal Shares · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
VIGINUM's D3lta — France's Open-Source AI Tool for Detecting Coordinated Disinformation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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