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
Renán A. Barrera Concha
City Council President of Mérida Yucatán, Mexico.
"The Decide Mérida digital platform was an opportunity that opened as never before the mechanisms of citizen participation for the elaboration of the Municipal Development Plan of Mérida 2018-2021. We had more than 3,000 citizen interactions including proposals, comments, suggestions and support that achieving the highest consensus possible about what is best for our city. Undoubtedly, the Decide Mérida platform will continue to be our ally in making Mérida an increasingly participative society."
Sivan Pätsch
OpenForum Europe Research Director, European Union
"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."
Kasia Odrozek
Mozilla Foundation
"We suffer under a lack of public space. Its 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."
Renán A. Barrera Concha
City Council President of Mérida Yucatán, Mexico.
"The Decide Mérida digital platform was an opportunity that opened as never before the mechanisms of citizen participation for the elaboration of the Municipal Development Plan of Mérida 2018-2021. We had more than 3,000 citizen interactions including proposals, comments, suggestions and support that achieving the highest consensus possible about what is best for our city. Undoubtedly, the Decide Mérida platform will continue to be our ally in making Mérida an increasingly participative society."
Sivan Pätsch
OpenForum Europe Research Director, European Union
"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."
Kasia Odrozek
Mozilla Foundation
"We suffer under a lack of public space. Its 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."