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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Code for Japan
Decidim bietet eine maßgeschneiderte Architektur, so dass wir es an unsere innenpolitische Situation anpassen können.
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Stadt Helsinki
We evaluated seven different kinds of participatory budgeting options to find the right platform to support...
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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.
Die Entscheidung Merida digitale Plattform war eine Gelegenheit, die wie nie zuvor die Mechanismen der Bürgerbeteiligung für die Ausarbeitung des Stadtentwicklungsplans von Me rida 2018-2021 eröffnet wurde. Wir hatten mehr als 3.000 Bürgerinteraktionen einschließlich Vorschläge, Kommentare, Anregungen und Unterstützung, dass das Erreichen des größtmöglichen Konsens darüber, was für unsere Stadt am besten ist. Zweifellos wird die Decide Me rida Plattform weiterhin unser Verbündeter sein, um Me rida zu einer zunehmend partizipativen Gesellschaft zu machen.
Renán A. Barrera Concha
Gemeindepräsident von MeDank Decidim ist es uns in Barcelona gelungen, gemeinsam mit den Bürgern einen strategischen Stadtplan zu erarbeiten. 2016 haben wir den Stadtaktionsplan in Form eines partizipatorischen Prozesses durch Decidim Barcelona eröffnet. Derzeit umfasst dieser Plan fast 7 000 Vorschläge für Bürger. Einer der Vorteile der Nutzung dieser Plattform besteht darin, dass Sie jederzeit den Stand der Umsetzung der angenommenen Vorschläge überwachen können.
Gala Pin
Rathaus von Barcelona (2015-2019)
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.
Sivan Pätsch
OpenForum Europe Research Director, European Union
Häufig gestellte Fragen
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.
How often is the platform updated?
We release a new version approximately every month. See the record of versions.
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 kind of members you accept into the Metadecidim community?
Anybody who has good faith and a correct attitude towards democratic collaboration.