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Escaping the Middleman Paradox: Better Reykjavik and Open Policy Innovation

Derek Lackaff · JeDEM – eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, vol. 7, no. 2 · 2015

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Type: Article
Author: Derek Lackaff
Identifier: DOI 10.29379/jedem.v7i2.386
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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DisputedAccounts of the 2010 origin differ. A 2015 academic study says Better Reykjavík grew out of the earlier Shadow City site (over 1,300 participants in the Best Party's section) and was built after the 29 May 2010 election. The founders describe a launch a week before the election and over 40,000 participants.EstablishedIn October 2011 Reykjavik began an official partnership with the founders' Citizens Foundation. Each month the highest-ranked ideas are added to the agendas of the relevant city committees, which process and answer them; the first 16 priorities were forwarded in October 2011.EstablishedA 2015 peer-reviewed study, citing platform figures, reports that over 630 proposals had received formal consideration and 501 had been implemented or were in implementation. Activity is otherwise modest, with a few to a few dozen ideas posted per week.