20 Jan The importance of youth organisations for society and democracy
We had a great experience doing a presentation at The Icelandic Youth Councils conference. We presented our work on using e-democracy increase participation,...
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30 Dec Seasons Greetings 2014
A very merry seasons greetings to all from us at the Citizens Foundation in Iceland! Highlights from 2014 In 2014 we presented and participated with...
26 Nov Better Neighborhoods PB for the 4th time
On the 8th of October 2014 we started collecting ideas for our annual Participatory budgeting project for the City of Reykjavik, capital of...
28 Aug “Your Idea – Our Priority” crowdfunding campaign launched
We have launched our first e-democracy crowdfunding campaign on Goteo.org website to support the development of open source electronic democracy in Serbia. The democratic...
13 May International conference “Participation of Young Citizens in New Era”, Istanbul
On 28th of March we received an invitation from Devin Bahçeci, representative of the Istanbul Bilgi University NGO Training and Research Center, to...
18 Apr EVE Online True Stories Project was a great success
Over 100.000 people have visited the True Stories website, approximately 10.000 people have either submitted a story, commented or voted and 767 stories...
08 Apr Citizens Foundation’s main projects
One of our main measures of success is participation, without participation there is no democracy. Following here is a short recap of our...
25 Mar Citizens Foundation participated in Level Up conference in Tunisia
The Level Up conference took place from 21st to 23rd of March, 2014, at Hotel Riu Palace Oceana Hammamet and the Citizens Foundation...
03 Mar NHS uses Your Priorities to engage with citizens
The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK is using Your Priorities to help people identify and discuss the issues that the NHS should be talking...
30 Sep Citizens Foundation at SEECOM conference
From 27th to 29th of September, 2013, Robert Bjarnason and Gunnar Grímsson, as representatives of the Citizens Foundation, participated in the 2nd South...