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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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.
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
Gracias a Decidim, hemos conseguido en Barcelona coproducir un plan estratégico de ciudad conjuntamente con la ciudadanía. En el 2016 inauguramos el Plan de Acción Municipal en forma de proceso participativo a través de Decidim Barcelona. Actualmente dicho plan recoge casi 7 mil propuestas ciudadanas. Una de las ventajas de utilizar esta plataforma es que puedes seguir en todo momento el estado de implementación de las propuestas aceptadas.
Gala Pin
Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (2015-2019)
Prácticamente cada proceso participativo que ha llegado a nuestra mesa, lo hemos podido resolver usando las reglas de negocio de Decidim. Como herramienta, es una muy robusta. Sin embargo, la parte que nos parece más fuerte e importante es su comunidad, tanto de desarrolladoras como de aquellas que lo usan para procesos participativos. Convivir con ellas nos ha hecho dimensionar los desafíos que conlleva implementar la democracia participativa en el mundo real.
Alejandra González
Gobierno Abierto de Ciudad de México
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How can I become a member of the Decidim Association?
Now the people involved in the project can be partners. Here we explain in detail how you have to do it
Where can I find the project roadmap and the planned features?
You can find the roadmap of new features of the project at GitHub.
What can a Decidim administrator do?
Easily configure participatory processes Do you want to make a strategic plan? Or discuss new regulations? Or discuss a new square or a public building to achieve the common good? Thanks to Decidim you will be able to configure participation spaces (initiatives, assemblies, processes or consultations) and enrich them through the multiple available components (face-to-face meetings, surveys, proposals, voting, follow-up of results, comments and many more).
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.