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Decidim is a digital platform
for citizen participation

It’s a free/libre and open-source web-based software, maintained by an extense and active community. You can use Decidim in a public or private organisation, with hundreds or thousands of potential participants, such as a city council, an association, a university, an NGO, a trade union, a neighbourhood association or a cooperative...
For technologists
Installing Decidim

You can install it yourself or find someone to help you with tech support.

For organizations
The right tool for you

For big or small organisations, discover how Decidim can cater to your needs.

For governments
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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Participatory texts
Conference
Surveys
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Participatory processes
Participatory texts
Conference
Surveys
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Participatory processes
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Conference
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Backed by technology, democracy and experience

European Commission
European Commission

The digital platform was launched on 19 April 2021 and was open to contributions until 9 of May 2022. During this...

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Code for Japan
Code for Japan

Decidim provides customize-friendly architecture so that we can adapt it to our domestic situation.

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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.

FAQs
How often is the platform updated?

We release a new version approximately every month. See the record of versions.

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 ;-)

I have ideas for new improvement features. I want to have a better understanding of the project. What can I do?

You can collaborate in multiple ways. One of them is through the Metadecidim community. If you want to propose new features, go here. If you have detected errors and want to notify them, go to this process. If you want to actively participate in the Metadecidim community, you can attend Community Meetings. Register as a participant of the community and participate with us. If your thing is the code, come to Github. If you are a researcher, you might be interested in coming to the LAB Metadecidim Seminars.

Is there any tutorial to start setting it up?

You can check the latest version of our admin manual in the Documentation section.

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