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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Ayuntamiento de Helsinki
We evaluated seven different kinds of participatory budgeting options to find the right platform to support...
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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.
En Som Energia, con la implementación del Decidim, hemos generado un espacio más amable de participación. Estrenamos la herramienta en 2018, albergando la Asamblea General de la Cooperativa y meses más tarde, hemos llevado a debate el Rediseño de Imagen y la elaboración colaborativa de la Escuela de Som Energia, entre otros procesos de participación. En pocos meses se han registrado más de 3.500 personas participantes, 5 procesos participativos, 3 asambleas funcionando y más de 1.300 votos en la última consulta de la Asamblea General.
Yaiza Blanch
Som Energia
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
We suffer under a lack of public space. It's particularly important that we reclaim these public spaces for us. Open platforms such as Decidim do exactly that. Is not only that is open source so other people can fork it, reuse it and build a process. It also has these values that we want to reflect in our society encoded in the way it's designed.
Kasia Odrozek
Mozilla Foundation
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.
How can I become a member of the Decidim Association?
Now the people involved in the project can be partners. Here we explain in detail how you have to do it
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 is Decidim's trademark policy?
Decidim and the Decidim logo are registered by the Association, they cannot be used as a commercial product nor cannot be sold. If used, the credit has to be referenced to the project. You can read more about this in our Trademark policy.