Website Analysis

Often, what a website actually does is what other websites say about it (their own statements about themselves may be exaggerated).

• https://democraciaos.org/en/
• https://www.civis.vote/
• https://www.citizens.is/
  • Github: https://github.com/CitizensFoundation
  • https://betrireykjavik.is/domain/1 (Better Reykjavík) - "Better Reykjavik is an online platform for the crowdsourcing of solutions to urban challenges. ... Innovations include a unique debating system, crowd-sourcing of content and prioritization, submission of multimedia content, and extensive use of AI to improve the user experience as well as content submitted. ... It’s a platform for crowdsourcing solutions to urban challenges and has multiple democratic functions: Agenda setting, Participatory budgeting, and Policymaking. .... Participation has increased steadily with new records reached almost every year. This 450 million ISK (4.2 million USD, 3.6 million EUR) participatory budgeting initiative enables the public to spend approximately 6% of the city’s capital investment budget."
    • When their name is searched in Google, their twitter comes up and it only has 38 followers and no posts.
    • Here's a sample page: https://www.betrireykjavik.is/group/3743 -- English Translation had to be activated and I had to login.
    • Seems like people can submit ideas, here's an example: https://www.betrireykjavik.is/post/38680 - The posting always asks them to submit answers to two questions "What do you want done?" and "why". People are able to vote yes or no for an idea and add a comment with it, which can also include a 30 sec audio or video clip. In a 'Debate' section, people can upvote or downvote other people's comments. There's a place to upload photos. Bad points: No dates are displayed on the ideas or comments so we cant tell if a comment is 5 years old or 5 days old.
    • (summary of analysis; important points) Basically this is a simple website, with just idea creation and allowing upvoting by other people and at this point we wonder if that is all there is. They also talked about participatory budgeting. Unable to see it so lets see.
    • Interesting idea that had some opposition with written comments: https://www.betrireykjavik.is/post/26876 -- this tells us that its not enough to just oppose an idea but provide a comment for it too.
    • (may be good to take a break while analyzing a website)