Decidim és una plataforma digital de participació ciutadana
Free/libre, open and safe technology.
With all democratic guarantees.
Reprogramming democracy is now possible with Decidim.
What can you do with Decidim?
Decidim helps citizens, organizations and public institutions self-organize democratically at every scale.
Run participatory processes
To foster debate, assessment, and decision-making on issues that matter to your community.
Collect proposals from participants
Enriched with geolocation and attachments, merge similar ones, and set a workflow for official approval or rejection.
Vote and select proposals
You can use various voting methods, such as setting minimum and maximum thresholds, weighted voting, or participatory budgeting.
Organize face-to-face or online meetings for co-creation
Manage registrations, publish the agenda and upload the proposals co-created in a session.
Comment and discuss with your community
Engage your community in a deliberation topic, and follow the discussion with different visualizations of the arguments.
Use cases
Stories about Decidim in action, around the world with diverse purposes and contexts.
Participatory Budgets 2020-2023 in Barcelona
The first participatory budgets in the city, or how to promote democratic transparency and citizen empowerment
Brazils Participatory Plurianual Plan: embedding citizen participation in federal strategic planning
A strategic planning process that led to the launch of the Brasil Participativo platform
The Japanese Case
The first Decidim instance in the Pacific island was deployed on the year 2020 at Kakogawa, later came Yosano, Nishiaizu, Kamaishi and the community instance Meta.
What makes Decidim unique?
Implementing a flexible democratic system
We can help configure a system of democratic governance in all kinds of organizations.
Our features
We take democracy very seriously
Decidim assegura la transparència, traçabilitat i integritat de la informació com mai abans. Proporciona seguretat, privadesa i confidencialitat a totes les 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
Katja Henttonen
Ajuntament d’Helsinki
"What we appreciate is that it’s built with democracy in mind and therefore democracy is a big focus. Democratic principles such as accountability, equality and transparency are in the core of the design."
Francisco Tena
Pipeline to Power, working for NYC Civic Engagement Commission
"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."
Alejandra González
Govern Obert de Ciutat de Méxic
"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."
Katja Henttonen
Ajuntament d’Helsinki
"What we appreciate is that it’s built with democracy in mind and therefore democracy is a big focus. Democratic principles such as accountability, equality and transparency are in the core of the design."
Francisco Tena
Pipeline to Power, working for NYC Civic Engagement Commission
"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."
Alejandra González
Govern Obert de Ciutat de Méxic
"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."
Participation for social change
Empower your community by creating truly democratic processes. Avoid participatory washing, use Decidim to organize collective intelligence and transform reality.