Your Priorities
Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.
Your Priorities is an online participatory social network, launched in 2008 by Iceland's Citizens Foundation. Your Priorities has been in continual development ever since. Now yrpri.org is a web app that is easy to use, scales well on smartphones, tablets and computers and free to use. The community has over 11.000 registered users, with more than 6.000 ideas generated and over 10.000 arguments for and against ideas submitted. A host of municipal governments use YRPRI for participatory projects, such as crowdsourcing ideas or participatory budgeting. Civil Society organisations and NGOs also use the platform, including the Norwegian Consumer Authority, Forbrukerradet.
Funding details
| Funded by | Date | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| EU CHEST project via Framework Programme 7 | link | — |
Evidence of this project's impact
Your Priorities has been used to improve decision-making in thousands of projects in 45 countries by over 2 million people since 2008. (Source) — 2024-11
Resources
- Blog
- A short case study on using the platform in rural Kyrgyzstan
- Icelandic Consitution Drafting (39 000 vistiors)
- Gallery of Your Priorities instances
- Impact page
- Overview of AI used by Citizens Foundation
- AI in Digital Participation Tools – Where Do We Stand?
- Citizens Foundation awarded seed financing for Active Citizen AI Notifications
- Over half of Reykjavik residents steer policymaking—here’s how Better Reykjavik is restoring faith in a broken political system through citizen engagement
Founder(s)
Óskar J. Sandholt, Róbert Bjarnason, Gunnar Grímsson
- Org. type
- Non-profit / charity / foundation
- Project type
- Tool or platform
- Country
- Iceland (Ísland) 🇮🇸
- Founded
- 2008
- Language(s)
- English, Icelandic
- Employees
- 6 at Citizens Foundation
- Pricing
- $0 - $2,500
- Used by
- 60% local gov, 30% civil society and the rest mixed
- Tech stack
- BuiltWith report →
- Categories
- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Civic forums, Deliberation, Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, Group decision making, Ideation, Participatory budgeting, Participatory budgeting tools, Participatory democracy, Social networks, The Tech
- Tags
- Your Priorities
- Added
- 2021-06-22
- Last modified
- 2026-07-12T16:45:48.000Z
Additional details
- Tech stack
- Moment.js, Twitter Emoji (Twemoji), Polymer, FingerprintJS, Docker, Google Analytics, Google Font API, Google Tag Manager, Open Graph, PWA, Vue.js, Apache PredictionIO, Heroku, AWS S3, Sendgrid, Platformio, Tensorflow, New Relic, Vuetify
- Integrates with
- Google Analytics, Perspective, Active Citizen, Transifex, Plausible Analytics, ChatGPT
- Institutions using the platform
- In 2023, the platform's developers estimated it's used by 60% local gov, 30% civil society and the rest mixed. 172 institutions use it, including the city of Reykjavík, the Scottish Parliament, the World Bank, Girraween Public School – Australia, Municipality of Pula, Croatia, Piratenpartij Amsterdam, Forbrukerradet – The Norwegian Consumer Council, British Council.
- How AI is used
- **Your Priorities** uses AI to populate diverse groups and converge on consensus solutions. "The AI then aggregates the results of these smaller groups into a unified decision." AI also assists citizens in drafting their participatory proposals to the government. "This includes proposal assistance, which provides information about the subject as you begin writing. Our goal is to improve the quality of proposals and help democratize the varying levels of knowledge people have on different subjects."
- Content moderation policy
- Automated content management using AI
- Number of end users
- 11,000+
- Number of integrations
- 13
- Metrics of success
- Your Priorities has been used to improve decision-making in thousands of projects in 45 countries by over 2 million people since 2008.
- Geographic focus
- Central and Eastern Europe, North America, Western Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia
- Geographic focus — country
- Europe, North America, Europe, Asia
- Pricing
- $0 - $2,500
- Pricing — license model
- Free for download or offers a free subscription option with full features.
- Pricing — government / nonprofit discount
- Yes, discounted for smaller cities/towns/organizations
- Support included
- Yes. We include support services in our license subscription.
- Documentation & learning
- <https://citizens.is/getting-started/> https://citizens.is/portfolio/
- Support resources
- We include support services in our license subscription. <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lJM_L57WB1gwjUzvHIuxn2HGN2pSoIb-cCZu3ZiAPv0/export?format=pdf>
- Source
- Some data provided by People Powered's [Ratings for Digital Participation Tools](https://www.peoplepowered.org/platform-ratings)
- Accessibility certification
- Our platform meets the web accessibility standards e.g WCAG, In addition users can submit ideas via a voice recording