Your Priorities
An open source idea generation, deliberation and decision-making platform connecting governments and citizens since 2008 — in thousands of projects across 50+ countries.
From ideas to decisions, together
Your Priorities empowers groups of any size to speak with one voice and organize around ideas — from a single neighbourhood to a whole nation.
Idea generation
Citizens propose their own solutions, organized into projects, communities and categories — with images, video, audio and map locations.
Constructive debate
Instead of comment threads, people add independent points for and against each idea. This unique format keeps debate civil and makes trolling nearly impossible.
Voting and prioritization
Flexible voting with hearts, arrows or custom emoji, and up to four evaluation criteria — so the best ideas rise to the top.
Surveys and polls
From quick polls to advanced surveys with skip logic — gather structured input alongside open idea generation.
Participatory budgeting
Let residents decide how public money is spent. Used in hundreds of participatory budgeting processes together with Open Active Voting.
Secure and inclusive
Government electronic IDs, email or anonymous participation, fraud detection and full GDPR compliance — engagement everyone can trust.
AI that amplifies people — never replaces them
Your Priorities pairs collective intelligence with state-of-the-art AI to make participation easier, safer and more insightful, in any language.
Real-time translation
Automated translation and speech-to-text in nearly 200 languages, so everyone can participate in their own language — side by side.
AI-assisted moderation
Every contribution is automatically screened for toxicity and moderators are alerted instantly — keeping conversations safe and welcoming around the clock.
AI image generation
Generate beautiful images for ideas and projects with built-in AI image creation — no design skills needed.
Policy Synth agents
Our open source Policy Synth framework orchestrates teams of AI agents that research, draft and evolve policy solutions — with human votes always in the loop, as used by the New Jersey AI Task Force.
AI analytics
Automatic clustering of ideas, topic analysis and rich dashboards turn thousands of contributions into clear, actionable insight.
"AI is a tool to enhance human intelligence and creativity — not replace it."
All Our Ideas, now part of Your Priorities
All Our Ideas is the much-loved open source wiki survey tool, created at Princeton University. Participants are shown two ideas at a time and simply pick the one they prefer — every vote sharpens a crowd-ranked list of what matters most, and anyone can add new ideas of their own.
The Citizens Foundation has taken over its open source maintenance, and All Our Ideas is now available as a group type right inside Your Priorities — so you can run pairwise wiki surveys alongside idea generation, debates and participatory budgeting.
Powering democracy around the world
From city halls to national parliaments, Your Priorities has helped governments listen — and act — since 2008.
Better Reykjavík — Iceland
Over 70,000 participants in a city of 120,000. Hundreds of citizen ideas funded and built through ongoing participatory budgeting since 2010.
Scottish Parliament
The Parliament's Engage platform runs on Your Priorities, gathering citizen input for committee work on climate, wellbeing and more.
Rahvakogu — Estonia
Estonia's national People's Assembly crowdsourced democratic reform — and seven citizen proposals became law.
State of New Jersey — USA
Open innovation challenges for public servants and the NJ AI Task Force, where Policy Synth helped turn worker input into policy recommendations.
NHS England — UK
NHS Citizen used Your Priorities to surface public priorities for discussion at NHS England board assemblies.
Malta
A national election manifesto crowdsourced with the public — 2,600 ideas from citizens, many adopted into the final programme.
Ready to put your community's priorities first?
We would love to hear from you
Questions, ideas or a participation project in mind? Reach out to the Citizens Foundation team — we are happy to help you get started.
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