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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City of Helsinki
We evaluated seven different kinds of participatory budgeting options to find the right platform to support...
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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.
Arvostamme erityisesti alustan demokraattisuutta ja demokraattisen ajattelun roolia sen kehityksessä. Demokraattiset periaatteet, kuten vastuullisuus, tasa-arvo ja läpinäkyvyys, ovat järjestelmän suunnittelun ytimessä.
Katja Henttonen
Helsingin kaupunki
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
Prosessi alkoi lokakuussa 2019 Euroopan komission viestintä- ja eDemokratia-yksikössä yhteisessä tutkimuskeskuksessa, Euroopan komission tiede- ja osaamispalvelussa. Konferenssin tarpeiden analysointi ja erilaisten työkalujen vertaaminen johtivat avoimen lähdekoodin Decidim-työkalun valitsemiseen sen teknisen kypsyyden, laajan yhteisön ja soveltamiskyvyn takia.
Sivan Pätsch
OpenForum Europe tutkimusjohtaja, Euroopan unioni
Usein kysytyt kysymykset
What is Decidim?
Decidim is a Free Open-Source participatory democracy platform for cities and organizations. But Decidim is more than a digital platform: it’s a common's free and open project and infrastructure involving code, documentation, design, training courses, a legal framework, collaborative interfaces, user and facilitation communities, and a common vision.
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).
What is Decidim's trademark policy?
Decidim and the Decidim logo are registered by the Association, they cannot be used as a commercial product nor cannot be sold. If used, the credit has to be referenced to the project. You can read more about this in our Trademark policy.
Is there any tutorial to start setting it up?
You can check the latest version of our admin manual in the Documentation section.