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Better Reykjavík — Iceland's AI-Assisted Participatory Governance Platform

Iceland · Reykjavík · See the Iceland profile · See the Reykjavík profile

Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 6% 87/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Running since 2010, Reykjavík's participatory platform uses ML for idea classification, toxicity detection and translation. Over 70,000 residents—58%+ of the city—have participated; ~700 proposals implemented; model replicated in 20+ countries.

70,000+
Residents who have engaged with the platform (16 years)
58 %+
Share of Reykjavík population engaged
10,000+
Ideas submitted
21,000+
Debate points submitted
~700
Citizen proposals formally adopted by the city council
12.5 % of city population
Annual participatory-budgeting voter turnout

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Reykjavík City Council / Citizens Foundation
Period
2010–present
Region (NUTS)
IS00
Keywords
civic participation, digital democracy, urban governance, natural language processing

Context

Better Reykjavík (Betra Reykjavík), launched in May 2010 by the Citizens Foundation with Reykjavík City Council, is a digital participatory-governance platform using AI for idea classification, recommendation, toxicity moderation, translation and transcription.

Results

Over 16 years, more than 70,000 residents (58%+ of Reykjavík's population) have engaged with the platform, submitting 10,000+ ideas and 21,000+ debate points; about 700 citizen proposals have been formally adopted by the city council, and 12.5% of the population votes in the annual participatory-budgeting cycle. The open-source YR Platform has been replicated in 20+ countries.

Implementation

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National / regional programmes CERV — Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values

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