Decidim

Funcionalitats

For democratic organizations and collectives of any size and kind.

You can use Decidim in a public or private organisation, with hundreds or thousands of potential participants, such as a city council, an association, a university, an NGO, a trade union, a neighbourhood association or a cooperative...

Thanks to Decidim you will be able to configure spaces for participation (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).

Espais de participació

Processos participatius

Processos participatius To democratize common issues, step by step

Processos permet crear, activar/desactivar i administrar diferents processos de participació, articular-los en diferents fases en què poden combinar-se tots els components. Exemples de processos participatius son: un procés d’elecció dels membres d’un consell, pressupostació participativa, un procés de planificació estratègica, la redacció col·laborativa d’un reglament o norma, el disseny d’un espai urbà o la producció d’un pla de polítiques públiques.

Òrgans
de participació

Òrgans
de participació The power of collective self-organization

Makes it possible to set up decision-making bodies or groups (councils, working groups, commissions, etc.) that meet regularly, detailing their composition, listing and geolocating their meetings. It allows participation in them, for example, attending in person or online, adding issues to the agenda, or commenting on the proposals and decisions taken by that body.

Votings

Votings The right to decide with all democratic guarantees

Makes it possible to coordinate referendums, trigger discussions and debates, get voting results published and connect to a secure e-voting system.

Iniciatives

Iniciatives Setting everyone's agenda, within everyone's reach

Participants can create collaborative initiatives, define their path and goals, gather endorsements, discuss, debate and disseminate initiatives, set meeting points where signatures can be collected from attendees or debates open to other members of the organisation.

Components

Propostes

Your ideas in detail

Create a proposal using a creation wizard, compare it with the existing ones, publish it on the platform and include additional information such as geolocation or attached documents and images. This component also allows you to navigate, filter and interact with a set of proposals. In addition, with the proposal-incubator you can create collaborative proposals.

Votacions

Decide your choice

Offers organisations the possibility of activating different voting or support systems around proposals: unlimited, limited to a given threshold, weighted, cost-based, etc. Backed by secure and encrypted e-voting technology.

Resultats

No proposal without an answer

Turn proposals into results and give official responses concerning their acceptance or rejection, merging various proposals into a single result.

Rendició de comptes

End-to-end transparency

It offers the possibility to subdivide results into projects, to define and apply progress states around their implementation, as well as to show the degree of achievement of results grouped by categories and scopes.

Trobades

To meet and not miss anything

El component trobades ofereix a les organitzacions i als participants la possibilitat de convocar reunions, definir lloc i hora, registrar i limitar el nombre d’assistents, definir l’estructura i els continguts d’una cita o trobada presencial, així com de publicar-ne les actes i les propostes resultants.

Textos participatius

To analyze, synthesize, and build in common

Can be used to convert long text documents into several proposals or results and, vice versa, to compose and display a unified text based on a collection of proposals or results.

Conferència

On els grans esdeveniments s’estrenen

Create a website for a big event. Unify the program by joining up a series predefined meetings (chats, workshops, etc.), and manage attendees.

Enquestes

Perquè l'opinió de la teva comunitat importa

Design and publish surveys. Display and download results.

Sorteig

La igualtat i la justícia de l'atzar

Allows to select a number of proposals (e.g. candidates for a jury) with random, yet reproducible, procedures that guarantees non-biased and uniform distributions.

Comentaris

Construyendo la inteligencia colectiva

Enables users to add comments, to value them in favour, against or neutral, vote them, answer and receive notifications about responses.

Pàgines i blogs

La teva comunitat, informada i al dia

Create informative pages with rich text formatting, embedded pictures and videos. The blog component makes possible the creation of posts or news, and to navigate them chronologically.

Notificacions

Personalised information on interesting content

Decidim enables you to track any space or component so that you can receive updates whenever they happen.

Butlletí

Sencill però potent

Send emails to everyone registered in the platform or to those who participate in a specific space.

Mòduls

Grow beyond the default components. The Decidim community has developed hundreds of modules to expand the platform beyond the basics and cater to your needs even better.

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FAQs
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).

Can I join the Metadecidim community even if I don't live in Barcelona?

Of course you can. People do so through participatory processes, debates, translations, etc. that you might find in Metadecidim. Decidim was born in Barcelona and that is why there is a strong territorial bond with this city, but above all, it's a project for the commons.

What can a participant (user) of Decidim do?

Decidim makes it possible for thousands of people to organize themselves democratically by making proposals, attending public meetings, fostering decision-making discussions, deciding through different forms of voting and monitoring the implementation of decisions.

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.

Try Online — Coneix i prova lliurement la plataforma Decidim amb la demo en línia. Demo en línia