Your Idea for the City Mayor: Tbilisi's Online Petition Portal
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Tbilisi has let residents petition the mayor online since 2018. A national poll found 72% had never heard of it; three years in, three ideas had been granted.
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Your Idea for the City Mayor is Tbilisi City Hall's online petition portal, presented by Mayor Kakha Kaladze on 12 February 2018 and built as the e-petition commitment of the city's first Open Government Partnership action plan. Residents file ideas in 13 categories, and any adult Georgian citizen registered in Tbilisi may vote; voters enter personal data that then appears on the portal's public page. A site administrator screens each idea, which then needs at least 2,500 signatures within 60 days before it goes to City Hall and finally to the mayor; the author receives an explanation that is published on the site. By 2021 the portal ran on a shared municipal platform serving up to 10 city halls. Civil-society members of the working group that designed it were not invited to its presentation.
📊 Impact
In its first month 415 ideas were submitted and two gathered the minimum number of signatures; the IRM researcher found registration and submission easy and rated the commitment complete. One early winner, solar-powered machines that release dog food for a 0.5-litre plastic bottle, was installed by the City Hall's Animal Monitoring Agency at three sites in December 2018. By March 2021 IDFI counted three ideas granted by Tbilisi City Hall and 21 more that had gathered the signatures and were still under consideration. Awareness stayed low: in an April 2018 IRI poll of 1,500 residents of Georgia, 7% had heard of the portal without using it, 2% had heard of it and used it, and 72% had neither heard of nor used it.
🎓 Lesson
A petition portal is cheap to build and expensive to make consequential. Tbilisi's threshold was contested from the start: the Open Society Georgia Foundation judged 2,500 signatures too high to be easily gathered, and three years after launch IDFI counted three granted ideas. The first follow-up step civil society recommended was a robust awareness-raising strategy. The budget tool promised in the same action plan fared worse: it saw limited completion and was later found not functional. Civil society proposed setting aside money for citizens' priorities on the Estonian model; City Hall's budget department called that too difficult legally. A budget-priority survey now linked from the City Hall site shows 208 respondents.
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- Tbilisi City Hall · city governmentTbilisi City Hall — ელექტრონული პორტალი „შენი იდეა ქალაქის მერს“ ამოქმედდა (portal launched)
- Tbilisi City Hall · city governmentTbilisi City Hall — თბილისში მიუსაფარი ძაღლებისთვის კვების აპარატები დაიდგა (dog-feeding machines installed)
- Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) · ngoIDFI — The Importance of Petition Systems for Citizen Participation: International Examples and Georgian Practice
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Your Idea for the City Mayor is Tbilisi City Hall's online petition portal, presented by Mayor Kakha Kaladze on 12 February 2018
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built as the e-petition commitment of the city's first Open Government Partnership action plan
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Residents file ideas in 13 categories
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any adult Georgian citizen registered in Tbilisi may vote
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voters enter personal data that then appears on the portal's public page
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A site administrator screens each idea, which then needs at least 2,500 signatures within 60 days
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before it goes to City Hall and finally to the mayor; the author receives an explanation that is published on the site
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By 2021 the portal ran on a shared municipal platform serving up to 10 city halls
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Civil-society members of the working group that designed it were not invited to its presentation
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In its first month 415 ideas were submitted and two gathered the minimum number of signatures
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the IRM researcher found registration and submission easy and rated the commitment complete
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One early winner, solar-powered machines that release dog food for a 0.5-litre plastic bottle, was installed by the City Hall's Animal Monitoring Agency at three sites in December 2018
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By March 2021 IDFI counted three ideas granted by Tbilisi City Hall and 21 more that had gathered the signatures and were still under consideration
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in an April 2018 IRI poll of 1,500 residents of Georgia, 7% had heard of the portal without using it, 2% had heard of it and used it, and 72% had neither heard of nor used it
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the Open Society Georgia Foundation judged 2,500 signatures too high to be easily gathered
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three years after launch IDFI counted three granted ideas
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The first follow-up step civil society recommended was a robust awareness-raising strategy
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it saw limited completion and was later found not functional
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Civil society proposed setting aside money for citizens' priorities on the Estonian model; City Hall's budget department called that too difficult legally
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A budget-priority survey now linked from the City Hall site shows 208 respondents
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- Tbilisi City Hall; petitions are processed by trained staff of its Municipal Services Development Agency (MSDA)
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- city-government, civil-society
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Tbilisi City Hall — ელექტრონული პორტალი „შენი იდეა ქალაქის მერს“ ამოქმედდა (portal launched)
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- 2026-11-04
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City Hall's announcement of the portal's presentation by Mayor Kakha Kaladze: 13 categories, voting open to any adult Georgian citizen registered in Tbilisi, voters' personal data shown on the public page, and a four-stage review in which the administrator screens an idea, citizens vote, the mayor decides whether to continue, and City Hall units assess feasibility.
Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Final Report 2017
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The Independent Reporting Mechanism's assessment of Tbilisi's 2017 action plan. It rates the e-petition commitment complete, records the launch on 12 February 2018, reports 415 ideas and two that reached the threshold in the first month, notes that civil-society members were not invited to the presentation, and quotes the Open Society Georgia Foundation calling 2,500 signatures too high. It rates the participatory budget commitment's completion as limited.
Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Design Report 2018–2020
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The IRM's review of Tbilisi's 2018–2020 action plan. It states that the participatory budget planning mechanism from the first plan saw limited completion and is not currently functional, and that City Hall's budget department considered setting aside funds for citizens' priorities too difficult legally, while civil society pointed to the Estonian model.
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International Republican Institute — Public Opinion Survey: Residents of Georgia (fieldwork April 2018)
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A nationally representative poll of 1,500 residents of Georgia, fieldwork 10–22 April 2018. For idea.tbilisi.gov.ge it reports 7% who had heard of it but not used it, 2% who had heard of and used it, and 72% who had neither heard of nor used it. The sample is national, not Tbilisi only; the presentation states no publication date.
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IDFI — The Importance of Petition Systems for Citizen Participation: International Examples and Georgian Practice
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IDFI, which proposed the e-petition commitment, on petition systems in Georgia. It describes the portal's 2,500-signature, 60-day threshold, reports that it runs on the united municipal portal covering up to 10 city halls, and counts three ideas granted by Tbilisi City Hall and 21 more under consideration.
Tbilisi City Hall — თბილისში მიუსაფარი ძაღლებისთვის კვების აპარატები დაიდგა (dog-feeding machines installed)
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- Name not classified · tbilisi.gov.ge
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- 2018-12-22
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City Hall on solar-powered dog-feeding machines installed at three sites, which release food for a 0.5-litre plastic bottle; the idea was one of the winners of Your Idea for the City Mayor and was carried out by the City Hall's Animal Monitoring Agency.
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Tbilisi City Hall — დაგეგმე თბილისის ბიუჯეტი (budget-priority survey)
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- Name not classified · budgetplanning.tbilisi.gov.ge
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City Hall's budget-priority survey, linked from the City Hall website as 'Plan the budget'. Residents rank spending priorities; its live counter showed 208 respondents on 4 November 2026.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Your Idea for the City Mayor: Tbilisi's Online Petition Portal” — Tbilisi, Georgia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/tbilisi-idea-for-the-mayor/ (last verified 2026-11-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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