Features
The platform for democratic organisations and communities of any size and kind.
Spaces for participation
- Participatory processes
- Assemblies
- Initiatives
- Conferences
To democratize common issues, step by step
Processes is a space that allows to create, activate/deactivate, and manage various participatory processes. These are distinguished from other spaces by being structured in different phases within which all of the components can be incorporated. Examples of participatory processes are: an election process for members of a committee, participatory budgeting, a strategic planning process, the collaborative writing of a regulation or norm, the design of an urban space or the production of a public policy plan.
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.
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.
Where big events are premiered
Create a website for a big event. Unify the program by joining up a series predefined meetings (chats, workshops, etc.), and manage attendees.
- Participatory processes
- Assemblies
- Initiatives
- Conferences
To democratize common issues, step by step
Processes is a space that allows to create, activate/deactivate, and manage various participatory processes. These are distinguished from other spaces by being structured in different phases within which all of the components can be incorporated. Examples of participatory processes are: an election process for members of a committee, participatory budgeting, a strategic planning process, the collaborative writing of a regulation or norm, the design of an urban space or the production of a public policy plan.
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.
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.
Where big events are premiered
Create a website for a big event. Unify the program by joining up a series predefined meetings (chats, workshops, etc.), and manage attendees.
Components
Receive Contributions
Proposals
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.
Collaborative texts
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.
Surveys
Because the opinion of your community matters
Design and publish surveys. Display and download results.
Discuss and deliberate
Meetings
To meet and not miss anything
The meeting component offers organizations and participants the opportunity to convene meetings, determine their location and time, register and limit attendees, define the structure and content of the meeting as well as publishing the minutes, and the resulting proposals.
Comments
Building a collective intelligence
Enables users to add comments, to value them in favour, against or neutral, vote them, answer and receive notifications about responses.
Debates
To promote community deliberation
Ask a question about any topic related to a process, receive comments, participate in discussion threads and close the debate with a conclusion.
Make Decisions
Voting
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.
Participatory budgeting
Democratic and transparent decision-making
Add your project proposal about your city district, vote and give support to those that resonate with you, co-create collective ideas and give a specific amount of money to each one.
Elections
Simple and user-friendly voting processes
Set up elections to support decision-making. Upload your census or activate a token system for voting. Participants cast their votes through a secure voting booth, and once voting closes, you can publish the results.
Communicate Results to your audience
Accountability
End-to-end transparency
Keep participants informed of the status of implementation. Based on the proposals, define results, create and apply progress reports on their implementation, and show the degree to which the results have been achieved.
Notifications
Personalised information on interesting content
Decidim enables you to track any space or component so that you can receive updates whenever they happen.
Newsletter
Simple but powerful
Send emails to everyone registered in the platform or to those who participate in a specific space.
Pages and blogs
Your community, informed and up to date
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.
1 Receive Contributions
Proposals
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.
Collaborative texts
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.
Surveys
Because the opinion of your community matters
Design and publish surveys. Display and download results.
2 Discuss and deliberate
Meetings
To meet and not miss anything
The meeting component offers organizations and participants the opportunity to convene meetings, determine their location and time, register and limit attendees, define the structure and content of the meeting as well as publishing the minutes, and the resulting proposals.
Comments
Building a collective intelligence
Enables users to add comments, to value them in favour, against or neutral, vote them, answer and receive notifications about responses.
Debates
To promote community deliberation
Ask a question about any topic related to a process, receive comments, participate in discussion threads and close the debate with a conclusion.
3 Make Decisions
Voting
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.
Participatory budgeting
Democratic and transparent decision-making
Add your project proposal about your city district, vote and give support to those that resonate with you, co-create collective ideas and give a specific amount of money to each one.
Elections
Simple and user-friendly voting processes
Set up elections to support decision-making. Upload your census or activate a token system for voting. Participants cast their votes through a secure voting booth, and once voting closes, you can publish the results.
4 Communicate Results to your audience
Accountability
End-to-end transparency
Keep participants informed of the status of implementation. Based on the proposals, define results, create and apply progress reports on their implementation, and show the degree to which the results have been achieved.
Notifications
Personalised information on interesting content
Decidim enables you to track any space or component so that you can receive updates whenever they happen.
Newsletter
Simple but powerful
Send emails to everyone registered in the platform or to those who participate in a specific space.
Pages and blogs
Your community, informed and up to date
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.
Want to play and see how it works in a real-world environment?
A customizable system for
participation
Thanks to its modular architecture and scalable logic, you can configure a powerful system of democratic participation in all kinds of organizations. Choose the features that best suit your needs and customise your participatory process.
Modules
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.
Need help in the installation?
Take a look at the partners community, Decidim official service providers that can assist you on the installation journey, the hosting and maintenance of your platform.