Status: activeType: 💻 platformCountry: Estonia 📍 Show on map Website: citizenos.com

Status	active
Type	💻 platform
Country	Estonia
Location	Tallinn, Estonia · Show on the Democracy Map →
Website	citizenos.com
Contact	info@citizenos.com
RSS feed	citizenos.com/feed
News page	citizenos.com/news/
Concepts	Direct Democracy Deliberative Democracy E Government Radical Transparency
Last activity	2026-09-26 dod Site confirmed active; participation metrics and mission unchanged, no dated upcoming events found.

Citizen OS

Citizen OS is an Estonian open-source platform for civic participation — group discussions, co-creation of proposals, online petitions, and consultations. Built by a non-profit foundation, it integrates with Estonia's national e-ID infrastructure to support binding digital signatures in the Estonian context. The platform was relaunched with a new design in 2024.

Citizen OS has been deployed in 50+ countries. It has a particularly active branch in Indonesia (Jakarta), where it has been used for citizen consultations on urban policy, and is available in English, Estonian, German, Slovak, and Russian.

Links

• Website: citizenos.com
• Source code: github.com/citizenos

See also

• Direct Democracy
• E-Government
• Radical Transparency

History

• 2015-01-01 Founded by Ahti Heinla, Margo Loor and the Let’s Do It! Foundation
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  Citizen OS is a non-profit organisation, founded in 2015 by philanthropist and tech entrepreneur Ahti Heinla, civic society expert Margo Loor, and the Let’s Do It! Foundation (coordinators of World Cleanup Day).

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• 2024-03-18 Launched first phase of the platform redesign with a new look and feelPlatform/product launch
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  We’re very happy to be launching the first phase of our redesign roll-out — with an improved look and feel, and a more intuitive interface.

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• 2024-12-01 Citizen OS Indonesia co-organised the 4th Indonesia Opinion Festival with the Indonesian House of Representatives
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  In December 2024, Citizen OS Indonesia co-organised the 4th Indonesia Opinion Festival (IOF), in collaboration with the Indonesian House of Representatives.

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