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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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.
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
Los principios democráticos como la rendición de cuentas, la igualdad y la transparencia están en el centro del diseño. Decidim es está construido teniendo en mente la democracia, es su gran foco.
Katja Henttonen
Ayuntamiento de Helsinki
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
FAQs
Do you support institutions?
Yes, but you have to be patient. There are a lot of institutions that want to use Decidim right now and we are helping them step by step. Contact us for any question and we will answer you as soon as possible.
Where can I find the project roadmap and the planned features?
You can find the roadmap of new features of the project at GitHub.
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 kind of members you accept into the Metadecidim community?
Anybody who has good faith and a correct attitude towards democratic collaboration.