Decidim

Decidim is a digital platform for citizen participation that aims to facilitate self-organization and democratic decision-making at any scale. According to the vendor, Decidim provides free/libre and open-source technology with democratic guarantees. It is designed to be used by public or private organizations of various sizes, including small associations and large city councils or government institutions. Professionals and industries such as government and public administration, non-profit organizations, civic engagement initiatives, universities, and urban planning organizations utilize Decidim to enhance transparency in decision-making processes and promote participatory democracy.

Key Features

Participatory processes: Decidim allows the creation, activation, and management of participatory processes, offering customizable steps and activities. It supports various processes such as election processes, participatory budgeting, strategic planning, collaborative regulation writing, and urban space design.

Proposals: Users can create proposals using a creation wizard, including additional information like geolocation and attachments. The platform facilitates easy comparison, navigation, filtering, and interaction with proposals. Collaborative proposal creation is also possible through the proposal-incubator.

Voting: Decidim offers different voting or support systems for proposals, including unlimited, threshold-limited, weighted, or cost-based voting. The platform utilizes secure and encrypted e-voting technology to ensure the integrity of the voting process.

Results: Decidim allows the transformation of proposals into results, providing official responses regarding their acceptance or rejection. Results can be grouped into projects, and progress states can be defined and tracked for effective implementation.

Accountability: Decidim enhances accountability by providing an accountability section in participatory spaces. Participants can track the state of accepted proposals, and results can be subdivided into projects. The platform also allows the definition of progress states and displays achievement levels grouped by categories and scopes.

Meetings: Decidim enables the convening of meetings with location, time, registration, attendee limits, agenda, and minutes publication. It supports the creation of resulting proposals and tracks meeting-related activities.

Participatory texts: Decidim allows the conversion of lengthy text documents into multiple proposals or results, or the composition of a unified text based on a collection of proposals or results for efficient communication and decision-making.

Conference: Decidim facilitates the creation of a dedicated website for large events, unifying the program with predefined meetings and managing attendees effectively.

Surveys: Users can design and publish surveys using Decidim, with the ability to display and download survey results for informed decision-making.

Sortition: Decidim incorporates a sortition feature that selects a number of proposals using random but reproducible procedures, aiming to ensure unbiased and uniform distributions in decision-making processes.