Digital services for greater public involvement in politics

Iceland has embraced the use of digital platforms to enhance civic engagement. This, in close cooperation with the Citizens Foundation. Together they have had designed a series of platforms and tools to encourage greater public participation in politics at all levels. For example, Better Reykjavik, was designed to increase public trust in politics, participation in decision-making and improve the quality of public political debates. The success of the platform can be judged in that over 58% of the city’s population have used the site and today between 12-15% of the city’s population regularly use it nowadays. Another example of the services created through this partnership is the Make your Constitution game, an educational game to teach citizens in Iceland what constitutions are about from a high level. The game is built using a new open-source Citizens Foundation deep policy game engine called Open Active Policy and it was part of the Icelandic Constitution Crowdsourcing project,

Country

Iceland

Institution

The Citizens Foundation in collaboration with the Icelandic Government