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.
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
Platforma digitală Decide Meeartha a fost o oportunitate care a fost mai deschisă ca niciodată înainte de mecanismele de participare a cetățenilor la elaborarea Planului de Dezvoltare Municipală al MeThererida 2018-2021. Am avut peste 3.000 de interacţiuni între cetăţeni, inclusiv propuneri, comentarii, sugestii și sprijin pentru obținerea celui mai mare consens posibil cu privire la ce este mai bine pentru orașul nostru. Fără îndoială, platforma Decide Me·rida va continua să fie aliatul nostru pentru a transforma Meτ rida într-o societate din ce în ce mai participativă.
Renán A. Barrera Concha
Președintele municipal al orașului Me·rida Yucataouncn, Mexic.
Datorită Decidim, la Barcelona am reuşit să coelaborăm un plan de oraş strategic împreună cu cetăţenii. În 2016 am inaugurat Planul de acțiune municipal sub forma unui proces participativ prin Decidim Barcelona. În prezent, acest plan include aproape 7 000 de propuneri din partea cetățenilor. Unul dintre avantajele utilizării acestei platforme este că puteţi monitoriza în orice moment stadiul punerii în aplicare a propunerilor aprobate.
Gala Pin
Primăria din Barcelona (2015-2019)
Întrebări frecvente
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.
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).
Where can I find the project roadmap and the planned features?
You can find the roadmap of new features of the project at GitHub.
What do I need to install Decidim?
Installing Decidim is easy but you need some knowledge and technical requirements. See the documentation for installing Decidim.