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
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."
Francisco Tena Francisco Tena Pipeline to Power, working for NYC Civic Engagement Commission
"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."
Renán A. Barrera Concha Renán A. Barrera Concha City Council President of Mérida Yucatán, Mexico.
"The Decide Mérida digital platform was an opportunity that opened as never before the mechanisms of citizen participation for the elaboration of the Municipal Development Plan of Mérida 2018-2021. We had more than 3,000 citizen interactions including proposals, comments, suggestions and support that achieving the highest consensus possible about what is best for our city. Undoubtedly, the Decide Mérida platform will continue to be our ally in making Mérida an increasingly participative society."
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