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.
We suffer under a lack of public space. It's particularly important that we reclaim these public spaces for us. Open platforms such as Decidim do exactly that. Is not only that is open source so other people can fork it, reuse it and build a process. It also has these values that we want to reflect in our society encoded in the way it's designed.
Kasia Odrozek
Mozilla Foundation
Dank 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)
Fast 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
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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 are the differences with Consul Project / Decide Madrid?
There are many differences: features, flexibility, architecture, modularity, etc. We have published a post to try to answer this question.
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.
What is Decidim?
Decidim is a Free Open-Source participatory democracy platform for cities and organizations. But Decidim is more than a digital platform: it’s a common's free and open project and infrastructure involving code, documentation, design, training courses, a legal framework, collaborative interfaces, user and facilitation communities, and a common vision.