Latest news from Decidim.
The major highlight of this version is a technical one: the upgrade to Rails 7.2. But as always, over the six months between releases we’ve had time to add plenty of improvements, including two new components that revisit and refine...
L'Associació Decidim estableix un espai de...
We’re honored to share that Decidim has been awarded with the Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, promoted by NTEN. This recognition celebrates the life and legacy of Antonio “Tony” Pizzigati, a pioneer of open source computing and...
This version introduces a game-changer for occasional participants, those who engage just once (e.g., to vote in a budget process) but face friction with traditional registration. The new ephemeral verification...
The Decidim Association is participating in a new EU-funded project, MultiPoD, contributing to the conceptualisation and development of a digital collaborative infrastructure to foster political participation across Europe.
At a time of polarisation...
Decidim has been selected as part of the projects funded by the NGI Zero Commons Fund, under the NGI - Zero Commons Fund call. This support will enable us to implement significant enhancements to the platform through the Decidim Revamp project. More...
On December 5th, the Decidim Association and the Brazilian Government formalized their partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at a ceremony held in the Presidency Palace. This MoU establishes a collaborative framework aimed at...
We are looking for a communication and community coordination profile. In other words, someone who, on the one hand, helps us manage Decidim's day-to-day communications and, on the other hand, can energize our...
New collaboration with the VCity project, led by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and funded by the UNICO I+D Cloud España Digital 2026 program. This project aims to develop Urban Digital Twins, advanced digital tools that enable public...
Decidim's project "Interoperable CSV Exports/Imports for Participatory Objects on the Decidim Platform" has been selected and will receive funding to undertake a new initiative aimed at improving the platform's interoperability, supported by Metagov
After the launch of version 0.28, which brought significant changes, particularly to the UI, this release focuses on enhancing the mobile user experience, improving existing features, and addressing numerous fixes!
The Decidim Association is joining other organisations in calling on the European Commission to sustain its funding for the Next Generation Internet.
We thank the petites singularités association for their leadership in starting this open letter,...
We are looking for a visionary and leadership-oriented individual to work as the Technical Office Manager of the Decidim Association. You will lead project design, seek new funding sources, coordinate new...
Busquem a algú que ens pugui ajudar a millorar l'Experiència de la Participant (PX) i la UI de Decidim, liderant aquesta àrea de treball a l'equip de producte. Treballaràs amb un equip interdisciplinari centrat en...
We have been busy building Decidim, now it is time to think it through. (p. vii)
Today marks the 7th anniversary of Decidim’s birth. As a gift, we release its book: “Decidim, a technopolitical network for participatory democracy. Philosophy, practice...
The main highlight of version 0.28 is the complete redesign of Decidim, both for participant and administrator interfaces.
This mission began with a set of principles guiding the entire process. Let's delve into how...
Today, Decidim was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance DPG Registry. The goal of the DPGA and its registry is to promote digital public goods in order to create a more equitable world. Being recognised as a DPG increases the visibility, support...
Localret, the consortium formed by the local administrations of Catalonia to accompany municipalities in their digital transformation, the Barcelona City Council and the Decidim Free Software Association have...
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We’re looking for someone to become part of the Decidim family, more specifically of the project backbone! Someone with passion for programming and problem solving, who will be in charge of helping with the maintenance...
We’re looking for someone who will be responsible for creating a sustainability plan for the Association and find new funding opportunities.
Someone with excellent writing and communication skills and experienced managing grants and...
We are looking for someone who can help us improve the PX (Participant Experience) of Decidim and also to work on reviewing and improving the graphic identity of the project. You will work with an interdisciplinary team focused on how...
Six years now. Seven since the first instance of Decidim was born, decidim.barcelona, and six since the decision was made to write the decidim.org code practically from scratch and establish the features that define the quality...
This version comes with important news, as we are tackling the development of a PWA for Decidim and we are moving forward with the complete redesign of the interface. In fact, we foresee that this will be the last version with the...
Hal Seki. Founder of Code for Japan
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.
First, Decidim...
Paulo Rosa, Policy Analyst at the European Commission
The European Commission used Decidim to implement the multilingual digital platform of the Conference on the Future of Europe.
The Conference on the Future of Europe was a pan-European initiative...
Sanna Moisala, Project manager of participatory services at the The Helsinki City Executive Office. Digitalisation Unit
In 2017 City Council of Helsinki decided that participatory budgeting would be one of the tools for residents' participation...
We are releasing a new version with several improvements in different components.
On 1 February 2017 decidim.org was born, the free and open source platform for participatory democracy, conceived and promoted by the Barcelona City Council.
Exactly one year earlier, the first instance of decidim's software...
Security researchers recently found out an extremely critical level vulnerability in the Log4j Java library. This vulnerability was publicly announced on 10th December 2021 as CVE-2021-44228 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228) and affects...
Decidim is an open-source platform for participatory democracy that enables citizens to influence the creation of citizenship centric public policies and in the public agenda. At a global scale, over 150 institutions and...
👷♀️🚧 Release 0.25 is a mainly technical release where we have addressed some important refactors. If you are an implementer, please check the upgrade notes: https://github.com/decidim/decidim/releases/tag/v0.25.0
We’re looking for someone to lead the management of the association, together with the Coordination Committee. As Project Manager, you will be a key part of the team that is responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing the internal...
We’re looking for someone to become part of the Decidim family, more specifically of the project backbone! Someone with passion for programming and problem solving, who will be in charge of maintaining the core repository of Decidim...
We are looking for someone to take care of the Decidim community and the contributions that its members make to the project. On a daily basis you will interact with a multidisciplinary group of people, that includes a variety of profiles...
This version adds important improvements related to moderation. Decidim instances have more and more activity, and with activity comes SPAM, bots and other internet phenomena 👾.
We have added a global moderation panel to...
The Free Software Association Decidim has signed a collaboration agreement between the Department of External Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Barcelona City Council.
The aim is to promote...
Maps and geocoding are now fully configurable, and there’s a standardized API to plug any possible service to the map functionality in Decidim: dynamic maps, static maps, geocoding and geocoding autocompletion...
Now in the administration panel you can check some statistics about the activity on the platform. We added new notifications and the option of searching for participants through their e-mail. Admins now also...
Decidim is an open-source platform for participatory democracy that enables citizens to influence the creation of citizenship centric public policies and in the public agenda. At a global scale, over 150 institutions and...
We have extended the coverange of the API to all available (read-only) public content and some search capabilities:
Decidim is an open-source platform for participatory democracy that enables citizens to influence in the creation of citizenship centric public policies and in the public agenda. At a global scale, over 150 institutions...
A company may announce a commitment to emit less CO2 in order to hide a court ruling on a toxic spill, but that doesn’t make the company any greener. A political party may submit parity lists to elections...
Allow multi-choice answers to questions in consultations. #5356
Allow to restrict voting to a question by adding...
Better user experience related to Consultations/Questions. #5112
Change button appearance when listing questions in the Consultation page depending on whether the user has voted it or not
...In order to improve this feature, several changes have been made:
Added a button to reset all participatory text drafts. #4814
Add text formatting capabilities to MarkdownToProposals...
With the Amendments feature any participant can edit the text of a proposal and a “sub-proposal” will be created as an amendment. This amendment may gather endorsements and supports. The author of the original proposal may...
Translation note: this document is a translation to English of a blog post by Xabier E. Barandiaran (with permission). Since this document might evolve independently, we have substituted first person singular forms by first person plural.
Many people...
Added metrics visualization for differents Participatory Spaces and Components.
Added metrics visualization for...
This is a special release to comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation
Several improvements have been made to Assemblies, such as:
We have plenty of features to announce. For a complete list please visit the changelog. Here is a list of some of the most relevant new features:
In order to improve control on what other admins are doing, we want all actions done by admins to be logged and shown in a log feed in the admin section. #2603
For each action, we want to see:
This new release adds important improvements, especially in terms of communication between participants, such as:
Nicknames: Unique usernames for participants have been added. #2360
User officialization: Admins can...
Hello world! Today we launch the website of Decidim, the digital platform of citizen participation for municipalities and organizations 100% free and open source software. Many of you already know it...
