First steps with Decidim
Decidim is a digital platform
for citizen participation
Installing Decidim
You can install it yourself or find someone to help you with tech support.
The right tool for you
For big or small organisations, discover how Decidim can cater to your needs.
Decidim in your city
If your city is thinking of deploying participatory policies, find out how you can convince them to do it.
Is Decidim the right tool for you?
Decidim’s flexible features are designed to serve both small and large collectives, public and private organisations, with hundreds or thousands of potential users.
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City of Helsinki
We evaluated seven different kinds of participatory budgeting options to find the right platform to support...
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Code for Japan
Decidim provides customize-friendly architecture so that we can adapt it to our domestic situation.
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Who’s behind the platform?
Metadecidim is the community that collaborates in the design of the platform and the development of the project. Together we design and create new features and report bugs for continuous improvement of the platform.
The Decidim Free Software Association is a democratic association for the governance of the Decidim community.
Aproape fiecare proces participativ care a ajuns la masa noastră, am reuşit să îl rezolvăm folosind regulile de afaceri ale Decidim. Ca instrument, este unul foarte puternic. Cu toate acestea, partea care ni se pare cea mai puternică şi cea mai importantă este comunitatea sa, atât dezvoltatorii, cât şi cei care o folosesc pentru procesele participative. Coexistenţa cu acestea ne-a făcut să apreciem provocările pe care le implică punerea în aplicare a democraţiei participative în lumea reală.
Alejandra González
Guvernul deschis al oraşului Mexic
Odată cu punerea în aplicare a Decidim în Som Energia am generat un spaţiu mai bun pentru participare. Am lansat instrumentul în 2018, găzduirea Adunării Generale a Cooperativei şi câteva luni mai târziu am dezbătut despre Reproiectarea imaginilor şi dezvoltarea colaborativă a Şcolii Som Energia, printre alte procese participative. În câteva luni, au fost înregistrate peste 3 500 de participanți și 5 procese participative; 3 adunări funcţionează şi peste 1 300 de voturi în cadrul ultimului vot al Adunării Generale.
Yaiza Blanch
Som Energia
Part of what makes Decidim so powerful is that it adds a level of abstraction to the work separating out the steps of a process and the activities associated with the process. That’s part of the information architecture, so that not only you are saying what is happening at each step but different parts of Decidim behave differently depending on when you are doing or depending on what step in the process you are in. The fact that that’s customizable really allows Decidim to be moulded to how we are doing our work and not our work to be moulded.
Francisco Tena
Pipeline to Power, working for NYC Civic Engagement Commission
Întrebări frecvente
What is the Metadecidim community?
Metadecidim is the community of Decidim that collaborates in the design of the platform and the construction of the Decidim project. We meet regularly through the Community Meetings, for issues related to the technological aspects of the platform and the Labs witc are Research oriented meetings. Our annual conference is Decidim Fest. Go to meta.decidim.org to follow the calls closely and if you want to join the community. We'd love to ;-)
What can a participant (user) of Decidim do?
Decidim makes it possible for thousands of people to organize themselves democratically by making proposals, attending public meetings, fostering decision-making discussions, deciding through different forms of voting and monitoring the implementation of decisions.
Who is currently using Decidim?
It is currently used by cities and organizations worldwide. In fact, any group of people can use it, whether it is an NGO, university, trade union, cooperative, neighbourhood association, etc. Check the complete list of currently active instances.
What does it mean that Decidim is for free, "libre" and open source?
Decidim is a platform for citizen participation made by the people and for people. Its source code is open and can be inspected, modified, and enhanced by anyone. The Decidim software is covered by the AGPL license. That means that you can use it, modify it and redistribute derived versions of it as long as you respect the AGPL license.