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 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.
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 MePart 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.
Francisco Tena
Pipeline to Power, working for NYC Civic Engagement Commission
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
Häufig gestellte Fragen
What do I need to install Decidim?
Installing Decidim is easy but you need some knowledge and technical requirements. See the documentation for installing Decidim.
How can I get more information about the Decidim Association?
In the general assembly of the Decidim Association you can find more info abous us, follow the activity of the meetings and check relevant information (statutes, legal agreements, the internal regulations)
What can a Decidim administrator do?
Easily configure participatory processes Do you want to make a strategic plan? Or discuss new regulations? Or discuss a new square or a public building to achieve the common good? Thanks to Decidim you will be able to configure participation spaces (initiatives, assemblies, processes or consultations) and enrich them through the multiple available components (face-to-face meetings, surveys, proposals, voting, follow-up of results, comments and many more).
What can a participant (user) of Decidim do?
Decidim makes it possible for thousands of people to organize themselves democratically by making proposals, attending public meetings, fostering decision-making discussions, deciding through different forms of voting and monitoring the implementation of decisions.