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 provides customize-friendly architecture so that we can adapt it to our domestic situation.
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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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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.
Prácticamente cada proceso participativo que ha llegado a nuestra mesa, lo hemos podido resolver usando las reglas de negocio de Decidim. Como herramienta, es una muy robusta. Sin embargo, la parte que nos parece más fuerte e importante es su comunidad, tanto de desarrolladoras como de aquellas que lo usan para procesos participativos. Convivir con ellas nos ha hecho dimensionar los desafíos que conlleva implementar la democracia participativa en el mundo real.
Alejandra González
Gobierno Abierto de Ciudad de México
La plataforma digital Decide Mérida fue una oportunidad que abrió como nunca los mecanismos de participación ciudadana para la elaboración del Plan Municipal de Desarrollo de Mérida 2018-2021. Tuvimos más de 3 mil interacciones ciudadanas entre propuestas, comentarios, sugerencias y apoyos que dieron lugar al mayor consenso posible sobre lo que es mejor para nuestra ciudad. Sin duda, la plataforma Decide Mérida seguirá siendo nuestra aliada para hacer de Mèrida una sociedad cada día más participativa.
Renán A. Barrera Concha
Presidente Municipal de Mérida Yucatán, México. Ayuntamiento de Mérida Yucatán, México
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
FAQs
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.
Where can I find the project roadmap and the planned features?
You can find the roadmap of new features of the project at GitHub.
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.
I want to fund the project. How can I proceed?
Yes you can! Decidim is a non profit project and for the moment it depends completely on funding. Please find all details to fund the project at OpenCollective