Your Priorities is a platform we've been refining since 2008. It's recognized as the world's leading citizen engagement tool.
- Rated #1 on PeoplePowered: 2025 Participation Platform Ratings
- Top ranking in the 2024 Digital Democracy Report
- Top listing in OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes
- Helps groups take better decisions together by merging collective and artificial intelligence
- Citizen participation social network for digital democracy and social innovation
- Communities and groups for simple organization of any type of participation project
- Crowdsource ideas about any subject
- Effective debating system that is highly resistant to trolling and personal arguments
- Users can submit ideas and debate points as text, audio or video
- Users can prioritize ideas and debate points by voting them up or down
- Configurable and powerful surveys for ideas and user registration
- Custom emoji ratings where admins can configure groups to allow up to 4 different custom emoji ratings per group instead of the voting up and down
- Plausible Analytics is built in with useful promotion features
- AI driven recommendation engine that recommends relevant posts to users
- Highly scalable audio and video processing engine (using Amazon Elastic Transcoder and S3 or the Your Priorities Encoder)
- Automatic Speech to Text conversion in 200 languages (using Google's TextToSpeech API and LLMs)
- Machine translations between 200 languages (using Google Translate API)
- Simple moderation of all content for community and groups in one place
- Assigns an automated toxicity score for all incoming content. Uses the open source Perspective API, developed by the New York Times, The Economist, Guardian, Google & others.
- Users can view and moderate their own submitted content in one place
- Full GDPR compliance
- Localized in 200 languages
- Advanced anti-Fraud system for detection malicious actors and quickly deleting unwanted content
- Bad BOT management system for managing badly behaving crawlers, includes rate control
- Post status system where posts can be set to open open, in progress, approved or rejected
- Admins can easily and automatically email post status update all the people who supported or opposed posts
- Optional categories system for posts with simple filters
- Smart notifications in browser and email
- Newsfeeds for communities, groups and posts with activity lists where users can also share links and comment
- Ideas and debate points can be easily shared on social media
- Participation groups can be configured for many different types of participation projects
- Authentication is configurable offering eID, Facebook, email and/or anonymous login
- The client app is a progressive web app that can be very easily installed as a native app on mobile phones while also being a website
- Built with Web Components making the app fast on inexpensive mobile phones
- Open source, non profit and built with passion over 16 years
- AI generated images support (Dalle3) for admins and users (if admins allow it)
- Land Use Game module
- GPT4 based AI assistant that offers a hybrid UI for exploring communities and groups
- Supported by mass amounts of volunteer work, the EU, city of Reykjavik, World Bank, city of Kopavogur, Scottish Government and the Norwegian Consumer Authority
https://citizens.is/getting-started/
Get started with Your Priorities on our cloud platform.
- https://yrpri.org/
- https://betraisland.is/
- https://betrireykjavik.is/
- https://www.junges.wien/
- https://engage.parliament.scot/
The server API SDK for Your Priorities. It handles all the backend logic, data processing, and communication with the database. For more details, see the Your Priorities Server SDK Documentation.
npm install @yrpri/apiThe client-side web application SDK for Your Priorities. This is the user interface that users interact with in their browsers. It's built with web components and provides a responsive experience across devices. For more details, see the Your Priorities WebApp SDK Documentation.
npm install @yrpri/webappgit clone https://github.com/rbjarnason/your-priorities-app.git
cd your-priorities-app
cd server_api
npm install
cp startWatchWithEnv.sh-dist startWatchWithEnv.sh
# Add minimum env variables like dev database
vi startWatchWithEnv.sh
./startWatchWithEnv.sh
<in another terminal>
cp startWorkerWithEnv.sh-dist startWorkerWithEnv.sh
# Add minimum env variables like dev database
vi startWorkerWithEnv.sh
./startWorkerWithEnv.sh
cd ../webApps/client
npm install
npm run start
Create an user and give it admin privileges by running the following command in the root of the app
node ts-out/server_api/scripts/setAdminOnAll.cjs your@email.comYou need to set the ENV var REDIS_URL to point to your local redis installation with URL format like redis://user:pwd@hostname:port
For production mode you need to supply the URL to the database as an ENV variable
postgres://username:password@dbhost:dbport/dbnameGoogle Analytics can be disabled through DISABLE_GA=1 and Your Priorities has the open source Plausible Analytics built in.
For SMTP support define SMTP_SERVER, SMTP_USERNAME, SMTP_PASSWORD and SMTP_PORT. We assume security through STARTTLS negotiation.
When using Heroku SENDGRID_USERNAME, and SENDGRID_PASSWORD need to be defined.
If you are running behind a web server like nginx and want to disable production to force https, you can define an ENV variable as DISABLE_FORCE_HTTPS=1
Also if you are running behind nginx you want to add the following to your config: proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
If you use Amazon AWS S3:
# To run with image upload to S3 enabled
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXX S3_BUCKET=my-test S3_REGION=eu-central-1 ./start
If you use an alternative to Amazon AWS S3:
# To run with image upload to a S3 alternative enabled
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXX S3_BUCKET=my-test S3_ENDPOINT=my.s3.website.com ./start
You will need to have the ImageMagick package installed otherwise you might get errors like: "Command failed: identify"
Here are basic user instructions - a bit old.
All those configuration variables are optional but some depend on each other.
AC_ANALYTICS_BASE_URL
AC_ANALYTICS_CLUSTER_ID
AC_ANALYTICS_KEY
AIRBRAKE_API_KEY
AIRBRAKE_PROJECT_ID
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
DATABASE_URL
EMBEDLY_KEY
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS_JSON
GOOGLE_PERSPECTIVE_API_KEY
GOOGLE_TRANSCODING_FLAC_BUCKET
HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_URL
NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME work
NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY
NEW_RELIC_LOG
NEW_RELIC_NO_CONFIG_FILE
REDIS_URL
S3_ACCELERATED_ENDPOINT
S3_AUDIO_PUBLIC_BUCKET
S3_AUDIO_UPLOAD_BUCKET
S3_BUCKET
S3_REPORTS_BUCKET
S3_VIDEO_PUBLIC_BUCKET
S3_VIDEO_THUMBNAIL_BUCKET
S3_VIDEO_UPLOAD_BUCKET
SENDGRID_PASSWORD
SENDGRID_USERNAME
Install TensorFlow
The python classifier scripts are in active-citizen/engine/classifications
The export files for Your Priorities content are in active-citizen/exporters
Currently you need to use the exporters to generate datasets for the TensorFlow python scripts
Example dataset from our Better Reykjavik citizen particiaption website is provided in
active-citizen/exporters/datasets/better_reyjkavik
If you want to help us translate the app to your language please use Trensifex for online
translation for the app. It's easy to use and free for open source projects. See instructions
in the link below.
Our mission is to bring people together to debate and prioritize innovative ideas
to improve their communities.
Your Priorities - Citizens participation application
Developed in 2008-2024 by Robert Bjarnason, robert@citizens.is Gudny Maren Valsdottir Alexander Mani Gautason Joshua Lanthier-Welch Gunnar Grimsson Katherine Breadlove Nathalie Stembert and many others...
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