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Your Idea for the City Mayor: Tbilisi's Online Petition Portal

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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-7fb1b0b1749f81da quantitative
Your Idea for the City Mayor is Tbilisi City Hall's online petition portal, presented by Mayor Kakha Kaladze on 12 February 2018
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The IRM records that the petition portal, named Your Idea for the City Mayor, was launched by the Mayor of Tbilisi on 12 February 2018.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Final Report 2017
Claim 2 clm-996d5f0b7ebac35f descriptive
built as the e-petition commitment of the city's first Open Government Partnership action plan
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The IRM's report on the 2017 action plan identifies Your Idea for the City Mayor as the portal through which the e-petition commitment was delivered, under a different name than planned.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Final Report 2017
Claim 3 clm-e8fa3081215f5129 quantitative
Residents file ideas in 13 categories
Published field
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What the mapping says
City Hall states that the portal has 13 categories in which citizens can register an idea and vote.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Tbilisi City Hall — ელექტრონული პორტალი „შენი იდეა ქალაქის მერს“ ამოქმედდა (portal launched)
Claim 4 clm-6ea7c0ee7f9f0595 descriptive
any adult Georgian citizen registered in Tbilisi may vote
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
City Hall: the right to vote belongs to any adult citizen of Georgia registered in Tbilisi.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Tbilisi City Hall — ელექტრონული პორტალი „შენი იდეა ქალაქის მერს“ ამოქმედდა (portal launched)
Claim 5 clm-9de3a024e62ba529 descriptive
voters enter personal data that then appears on the portal's public page
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
City Hall's description: a vote is cast by entering personal data, which will then appear on the public page of idea.tbilisi.gov.ge.
Caveat
This describes the portal at its 2018 launch; the source does not list which personal data are displayed.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Tbilisi City Hall — ელექტრონული პორტალი „შენი იდეა ქალაქის მერს“ ამოქმედდა (portal launched)
Claim 6 clm-549ade5c2679ff35 quantitative
A site administrator screens each idea, which then needs at least 2,500 signatures within 60 days
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
IDFI describes the first stage as review by the site administration and the second as reaching at least 2,500 signatures within 60 days; City Hall's launch release also names the administrator's review as the first stage.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IDFI — The Importance of Petition Systems for Citizen Participation: International Examples and Georgian Practice
  2. Tbilisi City Hall — ელექტრონული პორტალი „შენი იდეა ქალაქის მერს“ ამოქმედდა (portal launched)
Claim 7 clm-ae4126478aacac58 descriptive
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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What the mapping says
IDFI: after the threshold, the idea goes to the relevant City Hall unit, then to the mayor, and the author receives explanatory feedback that is also published.
Caveat
City Hall's 2018 launch release orders the last two stages the other way round: the mayor decides whether the review continues, then City Hall units assess feasibility.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IDFI — The Importance of Petition Systems for Citizen Participation: International Examples and Georgian Practice
Claim 8 clm-c9d5272b28b4ec17 quantitative
By 2021 the portal ran on a shared municipal platform serving up to 10 city halls
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What the mapping says
IDFI (March 2021) says Tbilisi's portal operates within the united web portal of municipalities, which currently includes up to 10 city halls.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IDFI — The Importance of Petition Systems for Citizen Participation: International Examples and Georgian Practice
Claim 9 clm-3c4e8119a1c00ce8 descriptive
Civil-society members of the working group that designed it were not invited to its presentation
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What the mapping says
The IRM reports that the civil-society organisations in the working group were not invited to the portal's presentation and did not know it was the petition platform they had developed with City Hall.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Final Report 2017
Claim 10 clm-3e734b56eb784aec quantitative
In its first month 415 ideas were submitted and two gathered the minimum number of signatures
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The IRM states that 415 ideas were submitted in the first month after launch and two reached the required minimum number of signatures.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Final Report 2017
Claim 11 clm-86617906eeb32d9c descriptive
the IRM researcher found registration and submission easy and rated the commitment complete
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The IRM researcher considers registration and submission easy and user-friendly; the commitment's completion is rated complete.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Final Report 2017
Claim 12 clm-727b75e96419f9e2 quantitative
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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What the mapping says
City Hall's release of 22 December 2018: feeding machines installed at three sites release food for a 0.5-litre plastic bottle and run on solar energy; the idea, a winner of the portal, was carried out by the Animal Monitoring Agency.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Tbilisi City Hall — თბილისში მიუსაფარი ძაღლებისთვის კვების აპარატები დაიდგა (dog-feeding machines installed)
Claim 13 clm-de0cc704dd1f8533 quantitative
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
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
IDFI (12 March 2021): since launch three ideas had been granted by Tbilisi City Hall, and 21 more that gathered the required signatures were being considered.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. IDFI — The Importance of Petition Systems for Citizen Participation: International Examples and Georgian Practice
Claim 14 clm-3475b5092b6149ed quantitative
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
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
IRI's nationally representative poll (1,500 residents, 10–22 April 2018) shows for idea.tbilisi.gov.ge: 7% heard of but not used, 2% heard of and used, 72% neither heard nor used; the figures are in a chart next to the portal's name.
Caveat
The sample covers all of Georgia, not only Tbilisi residents.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. International Republican Institute — Public Opinion Survey: Residents of Georgia (fieldwork April 2018)
Claim 15 clm-d7361f61c09fb8ec quantitative
the Open Society Georgia Foundation judged 2,500 signatures too high to be easily gathered
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What the mapping says
The IRM quotes the Open Society Georgia Foundation as perceiving the threshold of 2,500 signatures as too high to be easily gathered.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Final Report 2017
Claim 17 clm-e1384be307d5f1cd descriptive
The first follow-up step civil society recommended was a robust awareness-raising strategy
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What the mapping says
The first of the follow-up steps recommended by the working group's civil-society members in the IRM report is a robust awareness-raising strategy for the portal.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Final Report 2017
Claim 18 clm-a0bee57905cb035d descriptive
it saw limited completion and was later found not functional
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The IRM's review of the 2018–2020 plan states that the participatory budget planning commitment from the first plan saw limited completion and is not currently functional.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Design Report 2018–2020
Claim 19 clm-619e455abaa81cd2 descriptive
Civil society proposed setting aside money for citizens' priorities on the Estonian model; City Hall's budget department called that too difficult legally
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The IRM reports that TI Georgia and USAID's governance programme suggested allocating funds to citizens' priorities and that USAID's programme pointed to the Estonian model; City Hall's budgetary department said this is too difficult legally to implement.
Caveat
One of the two proposers, USAID's Good Governance Initiative, is a donor programme rather than a civil-society organisation.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Design Report 2018–2020
Claim 20 clm-100ec077a7f034f3 quantitative
A budget-priority survey now linked from the City Hall site shows 208 respondents
Published field
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Mapping
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What the mapping says
The survey page's counter reads 'participated: 208 respondents' (the number is filled in live by the page) when read on 4 November 2026.
Caveat
A live counter read on 4 November 2026; the page states no start date, and no source ties the survey to the action-plan commitment.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Tbilisi City Hall — დაგეგმე თბილისის ბიუჯეტი (budget-priority survey)

Source dossiers and revision state

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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Tbilisi City Hall; petitions are processed by trained staff of its Municipal Services Development Agency (MSDA)
Actor types
city-government, civil-society
Funding model
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7 source dossiers

Tbilisi City Hall — ელექტრონული პორტალი „შენი იდეა ქალაქის მერს“ ამოქმედდა (portal launched) tbilisi.gov.ge · 4 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-794066c23ee788c1
Publisher
Name not classified · tbilisi.gov.ge
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2018-02-12
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-04
Dossier created
2026-11-04
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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Locator
Open the recorded source note

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.

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Claims linked
Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Final Report 2017 opengovpartnership.org · 7 linked claims

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Name not classified · opengovpartnership.org
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pdf · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-11-04
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2026-11-04
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Open the recorded source note

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.

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Claims linked
Open Government Partnership (IRM) — Tbilisi, Georgia Design Report 2018–2020 opengovpartnership.org · 2 linked claims

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Name not classified · opengovpartnership.org
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pdf · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-11-04
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2026-11-04
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Open the recorded source note

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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Claims linked
International Republican Institute — Public Opinion Survey: Residents of Georgia (fieldwork April 2018) iri.org · 1 linked claim

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Name not classified · iri.org
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pdf · language not classified
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2026-11-04
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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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Claims linked
IDFI — The Importance of Petition Systems for Citizen Participation: International Examples and Georgian Practice idfi.ge · 5 linked claims

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Publisher
Name not classified · idfi.ge
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2021-03-12
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Record last verified
2026-11-04
Dossier created
2026-11-04
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Open the recorded source note

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.

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Claims linked
Tbilisi City Hall — თბილისში მიუსაფარი ძაღლებისთვის კვების აპარატები დაიდგა (dog-feeding machines installed) tbilisi.gov.ge · 1 linked claim

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Stable source ID
src-0ae93d26c3e50bfa
Publisher
Name not classified · tbilisi.gov.ge
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2018-12-22
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-11-04
Dossier created
2026-11-04
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Open the recorded source note

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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Claims linked
Tbilisi City Hall — დაგეგმე თბილისის ბიუჯეტი (budget-priority survey) budgetplanning.tbilisi.gov.ge · 1 linked claim

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src-e71e065040f29608
Publisher
Name not classified · budgetplanning.tbilisi.gov.ge
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-11-04
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2026-11-04
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Open the recorded source note

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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