Better Reykjavik is a co-creation project of the Citizens Foundation, Reykjavik City and its citizens that connects them and improves trust and policy.
It’s a platform for crowdsourcing solutions to urban challenges and has multiple democratic functions: Agenda setting, Participatory budgeting and Policymaking.
Innovations include unique debating system, crowd-sourcing, submission of multimedia content and extensive use of AI to improve the user experience as well as content submitted.
Innovation Tag: Citizen Engagement
The programme “Outreach Services: Empowering Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in Their Community” empowers persons with disabilities in order to gain independence and encourage the realization of an inclusive social environment that is friendly and caring towards the people with disabilities. It takes a family and community-based social-service model, and the inclusiveness of the innovation also avoids the separation the beneficiaries from their family and community.
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