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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Ajuntament d’Helsinki
We evaluated seven different kinds of participatory budgeting options to find the right platform to support...
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European Commission
The digital platform was launched on 19 April 2021 and was open to contributions until 9 of May 2022. During this...
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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.
Els principis democràtics com la rendició de comptes, la igualtat i la transparència estan en el centre del disseny. Decidim és està construït tenint al cap la democràcia, és el seu gran focus.
Katja Henttonen
Ajuntament d’Helsinki
La plataforma digital Decide Mèrida va ser una oportunitat que va obrir com mai els mecanismes de participació ciutadana per a l'elaboració del Pla Municipal de Desenvolupament de Mèrida 2018-2021. Vam tenir més de 3 mil interaccions ciutadanes entre propostes, comentaris, suggeriments i suports que van donar lloc al major consens possible sobre què és el millor per a la nostra ciutat. Sens dubte, la plataforma Decide Mèrida continuarà sent la nostra aliada per a fer de Mèrida una societat cada dia més participativa.
Renán A. Barrera Concha
President Municipal de Mèrida Yucatán, Mèxic. Ajuntament de Mérida Yucatán, Mèxic
Pràcticament cada procés participatiu que ens ha arribat, l'hem pogut resoldre utilitzant les regles de negoci de Decidim. És una eina molt potent. No obstant això, la part que ens sembla més forta i important és la seva comunitat, tant de desenvolupadores com d'aquelles persones que la utilitzen per a processos participatius. Conviure amb aquesta comunitat ens ha fet dimensionar els desafiaments que comporta implementar la democràcia participativa en el món real.
Alejandra González
Govern Obert de Ciutat de Méxic
FAQs
What is the Social Contract?
That's how we call our Code of Democratic Guarantees and Democratic Collaboration. All members of the community must endorse the Social Contract.
We want to make a formal collaboration agreement. Are there any templates we can use?
Yes, we have templates to formalize collaboration agreements. Please contact us.
What is Decidim?
Decidim is a Free Open-Source participatory democracy platform for cities and organizations. But Decidim is more than a digital platform: it’s a common's free and open project and infrastructure involving code, documentation, design, training courses, a legal framework, collaborative interfaces, user and facilitation communities, and a common vision.
Where can I find the project roadmap and the planned features?
You can find the roadmap of new features of the project at GitHub.