Decidim

Decidim is a digital platform for citizen participation

Free/libre, open and safe technology.
With all democratic guarantees.
Reprogramming democracy is now possible with Decidim.

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Decidim helps citizens, organizations and public institutions self-organize democratically at every scale.

Implementing a flexible democratic system

We can help configure a system of democratic governance in all kinds of organizations.

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We take democracy very seriously

Decidim ensures transparency, traceability and integrity of information like never before. It provides security, privacy and confidentiality to all participants.

Social contract

It's yours. Use it. Share it. Improve it.

A platform designed entirely with free software, open and collaborative content thanks to the Metadecidim community.

The community

Almost every participatory process that has come to our table, we have been able to solve it using Decidim's business rules. As a tool, it is a very strong one. However, the part that seems strongest and most important to us is its community, both developers and those who use it for participatory processes. Coexisting with them has made us appreciate the challenges involved in implementing participatory democracy in the real world.

Alejandra González Open Government of Mexico City

New York participatory budgeting has grown to a point that we needed better tools to facilitate the conversations that were happening across the city. We have grown from 4 city council members to 36 and now the people have voted (to dedicate agency?) to participatory budgeting. We looked at what was available and Decidim was the tool that met our aspirations in NYC. 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

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.