1001 Smart Cities
Reykjavik
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Reykjavik

Country
Iceland
Population
139K
Projects
1
First project
2011
Best evidence
Official
Last verified
18 July 2026
In the atlas since
18 July 2026

🤖 AI-generated city profile, summarising the source-checked entries below — how this works

Reykjavik has run one of the world's longest-standing citizen-idea platforms since 2010, letting residents submit and vote on proposals through Better Reykjavik. Since 2011 the platform has anchored formal participatory budgeting: each year residents allocate roughly 450 million ISK of the municipal capital budget to the top-voted neighbourhood projects.

The atlas documents 1 project in Reykjavik: 1 still running without a verdict. The entry carries an evidence grade — the strongest here is official (1 entry) — and links its sources.

All 1 project in Reykjavik

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

🏛️ Better Reykjavik (Betri Reykjavík) 🏛️ Official since 2011 · Live →

Outcome: 1 ongoing — Evidence: 1 official

Compare with other cities

🇫🇷 Paris Budget Participatif — Citywide Participatory Budgeting Reykjavik voted on neighbourhood budgets from 2011, three years before Paris opened its citywide participatory budget in 2014. 🇪🇸 Barcelona Decidim Participation Platform Both cities built their own participation platform: Reykjavik's Better Reykjavik launched in 2011, five years before Barcelona's Decidim. 🇨🇭 Zürich Smart City Zürich Strategy Staying power vs pilot: Reykjavik has run participatory budgeting yearly since 2011; Zurich's Stadtidee was a one-off 2021 trial.

Official strategy and sources

↗ Þjónustu- og nýsköpunarsvið (Department of Service & Innovation)The organization driving the city's smart-city work.
↗ Open data portalThe city's official open-data platform.
📎 Cite this city

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart-city projects in Reykjavik, Iceland.” The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/cities/reykjavik/ (last verified 2026-07-18). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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