Quiénes somos
La Asociación de Software Libre de Decidim es una asociación democrática para la gobernanza de la comunidad de Decidim.
Queremos contribuir a la democratización de la sociedad mediante la construcción de tecnologías, metodologías, prácticas, estándares, acciones, narrativas y valores, de una manera libre, abierta, colaborativa y reflexiva.
Be part of the Association and participate in the project governance.
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Contribute to the commons and the sustainability of Decidim.
Mission
Our mission is to contribute to the democratization of society through the construction of technology, methodologies, practices, standards, and values, in a free, open, collaborative and reflective way.
Vision
Our history in a nutshell
All started with the 15M movement and the convergence of earlier hacktivists, autonomous and democratic activism in Spain and the rise of the technopolitical cycle.
In Barcelona, in early 2016, a fork of Consul, the participatory platform of the Madrid City Council, was used to power up the site decidim.barcelona, the new digital venue for participatory processes in the city council.
Technopolitical differences in vision and practice between the city council democratic innovation teams brought about a split between the two cities; as a result, Decidim was launched in early 2017 as a brand-new software with a more modular and co-developable architecture.
In 2019 the Decidim Free Software Association was constituted and an agreement with the Barcelona City Council was signed, ceding to the Association the maintenance of the code base. This makes Decidim a public-common project.
Until now, over 450 cities and organisations globally have embraced Decidim. And the Decidim Association has been growing as an international leader in democratic technologies and open source software.
Our recent work
The Association works on different projects related to democratic innovation, research, governance of digital commons, and the development of FLOSS technologies. We work in collaboration with leading organisations in their field.
You can also check our 2025 Activity Report
Nuestros valores
Desde el inicio, Decidim tiene un contrato social que incluye los valores del proyecto.
Todas las personas miembros de la Asociación de Software Libre de Decidim se comprometen a respetar este contrato
Recognitions
The Decidim Association has been proudly awarded with a series of recognitions for its contributions to open-source, democracy and participation.
Digtal Public Good
2023
Pizzigati Prize
2025
OSOR Award
2023
Sharing & Reuse
2019Need help?
We can help you with every step of using Decidim's product, from participatory design to learning how to install Decidim. Have a collaboration idea? We'd love to hear about it.