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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Stadt Helsinki
We evaluated seven different kinds of participatory budgeting options to find the right platform to support...
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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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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.
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
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 MeFast jeder partizipatorische Prozess, der an unseren Tisch gekommen ist, ist es uns gelungen, ihn nach den Geschäftsregeln von Decidim zu lösen. Als Werkzeug ist es ein sehr starkes Werkzeug. Der Teil, der uns jedoch am stärksten und am wichtigsten erscheint, ist seine Gemeinschaft, sowohl Entwickler als auch diejenigen, die es für partizipative Prozesse verwenden. Die Koexistenz mit ihnen hat uns veranlaßt, die Herausforderungen zu erkennen, die mit der Umsetzung der partizipatorischen Demokratie in der realen Welt verbunden sind.
Alejandra González
Offene Regierung von Mexiko-Stadt
Häufig gestellte Fragen
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
Do you support institutions?
Yes, but you have to be patient. There are a lot of institutions that want to use Decidim right now and we are helping them step by step. Contact us for any question and we will answer you as soon as possible.
Can I join the Metadecidim community even if I don't live in Barcelona?
Of course you can. People do so through participatory processes, debates, translations, etc. that you might find in Metadecidim. Decidim was born in Barcelona and that is why there is a strong territorial bond with this city, but above all, it's a project for the commons.
What is the Metadecidim community?
Metadecidim is the community of Decidim that collaborates in the design of the platform and the construction of the Decidim project. We meet regularly through the Community Meetings, for issues related to the technological aspects of the platform and the Labs witc are Research oriented meetings. Our annual conference is Decidim Fest. Go to meta.decidim.org to follow the calls closely and if you want to join the community. We'd love to ;-)