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With Northeastern University's Burnes Center, Citizens Foundation uses Policy Synth to help states remove hidden degree requirements.

New Jersey workers ranked concerns about generative AI, then Policy Synth helped turn top priorities into evidence-based proposals.

Citizens Foundation shows how Better Reykjavik and Policy Synth help governments turn public input into better decisions.

Since 2008, Citizens Foundation has refined Your Priorities into a leading open-source platform for digital democracy.

Democracy Technologies covered how the Scottish Parliament uses Your Priorities to support online public participation in committee work.

Robert Bjarnason discussed what it takes to build democracy technology as a small non-profit, from funding to trust and long-term maintenance.

We have released a major new feature for Your Priorities, a built-in Analytics and Promotions tool.

Robert Bjarnason discussed how artificial intelligence can support citizen participation and help governments make better public decisions.

The PaCE Dashboard allows us to reveal relative trends between different topics driving the discourse regarding populism, nativism and civic engagement.

Josh Lanthier-Welch explains how a constitutional game became part of Citizens Foundation America's pro-democracy civic work.

The PaCE project hosted a Populism and Civic Engagement conference exploring democratic resilience and public participation in Europe.

Some thoughts on the future of governance from our CEO Robert – part of a new #futureofgovernance op-ed series at Re-State.

Robert Bjarnason discussed Citizens Foundation's origins, Better Reykjavik, and lessons from building open-source democracy technology.

Citizens Foundation offered free hosting and support for nonprofit, educational and health organizations using online engagement tools.

Citizens Foundation offered free hosting and support to nonprofits that wanted to engage communities online or run internal idea generation.

In this first pilot episode of Citizens Foundation TV, we will introduce you to the foundation and some of our work.

Your Priorities 8.2 introduced stronger content moderation and new tools for safe, constructive online participation.

Citizens Foundation marked ten years of building open-source tools for citizen participation and better public decision-making.

Our open source digital democracy platforms have been recognized as one of the world’s best in the Apolitical digital government atlas 🌎. Check it out!

We’ve just launched version 7.3 of our open source digital democracy platform, Your Priorities.

Can we trust privatised democracy? Article first published on Medium. Democracy is at crossroads today.

An EU Erasmus+ project led by ECAS, with Citizens Foundation as a partner — building a digital ecosystem to bring young people's voices into European policymaking.

Citizens Foundation proposed a Digital Commons for Open Government: an open-source marketplace for public-sector civic technology.

Citizens Foundation received CHEST seed financing to develop Active Citizen, an open-source AI notification project for civic participation.

In May our open source community platform Better Neighborhoods was declared as a Nordic Best Practice Challenge winner in the category – Public Communication.

A citizen petition developed through Estonia's Rahvakogu process and Your Priorities became law, marking a concrete democratic reform.

Participation in Better Neighborhoods voting increased by 23%, showing growing resident use of Reykjavik's participatory budgeting process.

We had a great experience doing a presentation at The Icelandic Youth Councils conference.

A very merry seasons greetings to all from us at the Citizens Foundation in Iceland!

Reykjavik opened its fourth Better Neighborhoods participatory budgeting process, inviting residents to propose and prioritize local improvements.

We have launched our first e-democracy crowdfunding campaign on Goteo.org website to support the development of open source electronic democracy in Serbia.

Citizens Foundation joined an Istanbul conference on youth participation and new technology, presenting lessons from Your Priorities and Better Reykjavik.

The EVE Online True Stories project drew more than 100,000 visitors and thousands of player submissions through Your Priorities.

One of our main measures of success is participation, without participation there is no democracy.

Citizens Foundation participated in the Level Up conference in Tunisia, sharing experience from open-source civic engagement platforms.

Announcing NHS Citizen — the NHS in England adopted Your Priorities so patients, carers and the public could surface and debate the issues for its assembly meetings.

Citizens Foundation joined SEECOM to share lessons from Icelandic digital democracy and online citizen participation.

Citizens Foundation presented Icelandic and international citizen participation work at the POINT conference on political accountability and new technologies.

CCP Games used Your Priorities to collect and prioritize player stories for EVE Online, showing how open participation can support large online communities.

Better Reykjavik won awards for Most Original Website and Most Interesting Website, recognizing early public support for digital democracy in Iceland.

Róbert Bjarnason and Gunnar Grímsson were chosen by a vote from more then 10.000 people in and connected to the IT industry.

The Citizens Foundation opened today at 12.30 a new democracy website called Better Iceland.

Over 10.000 unique visitors to Better Reykjavik which have added more then 200 priorities since the website opened on October 19th.

Today the Citizens Foundation opened a new and improved version of Better Reykjavík in collaboration with the City of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland.

Last week, Fondation EurActiv PoliTech handed out the European award in the 2011 eDemocracy Awards to the Icelandic Citizens Foundation at the Quai d’Orsay.

We, the Citizens Foundation, did two presentations at the Digital Cities conference in Athens, Greece during the last weekend.

We will be participating in the Digital Cities conference in Athens, Greece where Róbert Bjarnason, Gunnar Grímsson and Óskar J.

Citizens Foundation was nominated for the 2011 European eDemocracy Award for its work running Better Reykjavik and Your Priorities.