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Apr 15
2024
allourideas.org is being reborn
We are delighted to announce that the All Our Ideas project will soon be housed within
Citizens Foundation
, a non-profit based in Iceland and the United States.  All Our Ideas will remain free to use and open-source.
As many of our users know, All Our Ideas started out as a research project housed at the
Center for Information Technology Policy
at
Princeton University
.  We are now happy to evolve into a project focused on social good.
As part of this transition, there will be many positive changes:
Updated website with new features, including GPT-4 integration
Improved web hosting capacity
Modernized version of the codebase, with easy Docker-based deployment
Support for government partnerships, including consulting, technical support, customization, and service level agreements
Citizens Foundation was founded in Iceland in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, and it is an ideal place for All Our Ideas to continue to thrive.  Since it was founded, Citizens Foundation has worked with governments in more than 45 countries to use technology to support democratic deliberation.
Finally, on a personal note, I’d like to say thank you all for everything.  All Our Ideas would not have been possible without the
support of many amazing people and organizations
.  I’m looking forward to all the excitement to come.
Matt
FAQ
Will allourideas.org be shutting down?
Sort of.  The version of allourideas.org that was housed at Princeton will be shutting down, and the version of allourideas.org that is housed at Citizens Foundation will be starting up.  The transition will happen in the fall of 2024 with the exact date to be determined.
Will data from allourideas.org be transferred from the project housed at Princeton to the project housed at Citizens Foundation?
No.  These are two separate systems.  Wiki survey creators the Princeton version of allourideas.org can
the data from their wiki survey before it shuts down.
Can I see the new modernized code?
Of course.  Here is the
open-source code
Has Citizens Foundation ever done something like this before?
Absolutely.  Citizens Foundation has been developing and supporting a system similar to All Our Ideas called
Your Priorities
.  You can learn more on the
Citizens Foundation website
and
Citizens Foundation Wikipedia page
Can you share more about the research that came out of this project?
Of course.  Here’s a paper that Karen Levy and I published titled “
Wiki Surveys: Open and quantifiable social data collection
”.  I also wrote about this project in my book
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age