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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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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City of Helsinki
We evaluated seven different kinds of participatory budgeting options to find the right platform to support...
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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.
Proces byl zahájen v říjnu 2019 na oddělení Evropské komise pro komunikaci a elektronickou demokracii ve Společném výzkumném středisku, což je vědecká a znalostní služba Evropské komise. Analýza potřeb konference a toho, které nástroje jim odpovídají, vedla k výběru open source nástroje Decidim pro jeho technickou vyspělost, širokou komunitu a přizpůsobivost.
Sivan Pätsch
OpenForum Europe Research Director, Evropská unie
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
Trpíme nedostatkem veřejného prostoru. Je obzvláště důležité, abychom tyto veřejné prostory získali zpět pro nás. Otevřené platformy, jako je Decidim, dělají přesně to. Je nejen to, že je open source, takže ostatní lidé ji mohou forknout, znovu použít a vybudovat proces. Má také ve způsobu, jakým je navržena, zakódovány tyto hodnoty, které chceme odrážet v naší společnosti.
Kasia Odrozek
Mozilla nadace
Často kladené otázky
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.
Can I join the Metadecidim community even if I don't live in Barcelona?
Of course you can. People do so through participatory processes, debates, translations, etc. that you might find in Metadecidim. Decidim was born in Barcelona and that is why there is a strong territorial bond with this city, but above all, it's a project for the commons.
Do you have a Demo? I want to use Decidim now, without installing it, to see how it works.
Yes, we have an online demo.
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).