My Neighborhood 2021

Idea collection and review

Ideas for My Neighborhood were collected from November 4, 2020 to January 20, 2021. A total of 1.320 ideas were submitted by residents, and there have never been as many individuals who participated in the collection of ideas and visited the Web site during the idea collection.

As in the past, everyone was allowed to submit an idea and idea creators were encouraged to submit well-crafted ideas in accordance with the prerequisites of the idea collection. 

This was the ninth time that ideas were collected. After the idea collection, the City of Reykjavík's project management team reviewed the ideas and consulted experts from within and outside the city administrative system to assess whether ideas meet the rules of the project and can be implemented. When evaluating ideas, the project team looked for various ways to implement the ideas so they could be voted on, and in several cases, idea creators were contacted in order to edit the ideas so they could be accepted and were eligible for the vote.

Once the review of ideas was completed, the ballot line-up took place. The ballot line-up was set up in open and electronic meetings of the district residents' councils, where anyone who wished could attend the meeting and participate in the ballot line-up. Participation in the ballot line-up was good, and district residents actively participated in selecting the ideas that went into a district vote.