Decidim

Decidim és una plataforma digital de participació ciutadana

Free/libre, open and safe technology.
With all democratic guarantees.
Reprogramming democracy is now possible with Decidim.

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More than 500 organizations using Decidim

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What can you do with Decidim?

Decidim helps citizens, organizations and public institutions self-organize democratically at every scale.

Run participatory processes

Run participatory processes

To foster debate, assessment, and decision-making on issues that matter to your community.

Collect proposals from participants

Collect proposals from participants

Enriched with geolocation and attachments, merge similar ones, and set a workflow for official approval or rejection.

Vote and select proposals

Vote and select proposals

You can use various voting methods, such as setting minimum and maximum thresholds, weighted voting, or participatory budgeting.

Organize face-to-face or online meetings for co-creation

Organize face-to-face or online meetings for co-creation

Manage registrations, publish the agenda and upload the proposals co-created in a session.

Comment and discuss with your community

Comment and discuss with your community

Engage your community in a deliberation topic, and follow the discussion with different visualizations of the arguments.

Stories about Decidim in action, around the world with diverse purposes and contexts.

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Participatory Budgeting Catalonia
Participatory Budgets 2020-2023 in Barcelona

The first participatory budgets in the city, or how to promote democratic transparency and citizen empowerment

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Brazils Participatory Plurianual Plan: embedding citizen participation in federal strategic planning
Strategic Planning Brazil
Brazils Participatory Plurianual Plan: embedding citizen participation in federal strategic planning

A strategic planning process that led to the launch of the Brasil Participativo platform

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The Japanese Case
Strategic Planning Japan
The Japanese Case

The first Decidim instance in the Pacific island was deployed on the year 2020 at Kakogawa, later came Yosano, Nishiaizu, Kamaishi and the community instance Meta.

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What makes Decidim unique?

Implementing a flexible democratic system

Implementing a flexible democratic system

We can help configure a system of democratic governance in all kinds of organizations.

Our features
We take democracy very seriously

We take democracy very seriously

Decidim assegura la transparència, traçabilitat i integritat de la informació com mai abans. Proporciona seguretat, privadesa i confidencialitat a totes les participants.

Social contract
It's yours. Use it. Share it. Improve it.

It's yours. Use it. Share it. Improve it.

A platform designed entirely with free software, open and collaborative content thanks to the Metadecidim community.

The community
Sivan Pätsch Sivan Pätsch OpenForum Europe Research Director, European Union
"The process started in October 2019 at the European Commission’s DG Communication and eDemocracy unit at the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission’s science and knowledge service. An analysis of the needs of the Conference and which tools fit those, lead to choosing the open source tool Decidim for its technical maturity, broad community and adaptability."
Kasia Odrozek Kasia Odrozek Mozilla Foundation
"We suffer under a lack of public space. Its particularly important that we reclaim these public spaces for us. Open platforms such as Decidim do exactly that. Is not only that is open source so other people can fork it, reuse it and build a process. It also has these values that we want to reflect in our society encoded in the way it’s designed."
Gala Pin Gala Pin Ajuntament de Barcelona (2015-2019)
"Gràcies a Decidim, hem aconseguit a Barcelona co-produir un pla estratègic de ciutat conjuntament amb la ciutadania. En el 2016 inaugurem el Pla d'Acció Municipal en forma de procés participatiu a través de Decidim Barcelona. Actualment aquest pla recull gairebé 7 mil propostes ciutadanes. Una dels avantatges d'utilitzar aquesta plataforma és que pots seguir en tot moment l'estat d'implementació de les propostes acceptades."
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