First steps with Decidim

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.

Documentació

For organizations

The right tool for you

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

Funcionalitats

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.

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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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Processos participatius

Textos participatius

Conferència

Enquestes

Sorteig

Comentaris

Processos participatius

Textos participatius

Conferència

Enquestes

Sorteig

Comentaris

Processos participatius

Textos participatius

Conferència

Enquestes

Sorteig

Comentaris

Processos participatius

Textos participatius

Conferència

Enquestes

Sorteig

Comentaris

Processos participatius

Textos participatius

Pàgines i blogs

Notificacions

Butlletí

Òrgans
de participació

Votings

Iniciatives

Pàgines i blogs

Notificacions

Butlletí

Òrgans
de participació

Votings

Iniciatives

Pàgines i blogs

Notificacions

Butlletí

Òrgans
de participació

Votings

Iniciatives

Pàgines i blogs

Notificacions

Butlletí

Òrgans
de participació

Votings

Iniciatives

Pàgines i blogs

Notificacions

Propostes

Votacions

Resultats

Rendició de comptes

Trobades

Propostes

Votacions

Resultats

Rendició de comptes

Trobades

Propostes

Votacions

Resultats

Rendició de comptes

Trobades

Propostes

Votacions

Resultats

Rendició de comptes

Trobades

Propostes

Votacions

Backed by technology, democracy and experience

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.

About the association Join the community

Gràcies a Decidim, hem aconseguit a Barcelona co-produir un pla estratègic de ciutat conjuntament amb la ciutadania. En el 2016 inaugurem el Pla d'Acció Municipal en forma de procés participatiu a través de Decidim Barcelona. Actualment aquest pla recull gairebé 7 mil propostes ciutadanes. Una dels avantatges d'utilitzar aquesta plataforma és que pots seguir en tot moment l'estat d'implementació de les propostes acceptades.

Gala Pin Ajuntament de Barcelona (2015-2019)

Part 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

La plataforma digital Decide Mèrida va ser una oportunitat que va obrir com mai els mecanismes de participació ciutadana per a l'elaboració del Pla Municipal de Desenvolupament de Mèrida 2018-2021. Vam tenir més de 3 mil interaccions ciutadanes entre propostes, comentaris, suggeriments i suports que van donar lloc al major consens possible sobre què és el millor per a la nostra ciutat. Sens dubte, la plataforma Decide Mèrida continuarà sent la nostra aliada per a fer de Mèrida una societat cada dia més participativa.

Renán A. Barrera Concha President Municipal de Mèrida Yucatán, Mèxic. Ajuntament de Mérida Yucatán, Mèxic

FAQs

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.

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.

What does it mean that Decidim is for free, "libre" and open source?

Decidim is a platform for citizen participation made by the people and for people. Its source code is open and can be inspected, modified, and enhanced by anyone. The Decidim software is covered by the AGPL license. That means that you can use it, modify it and redistribute derived versions of it as long as you respect the AGPL license.