Pablo Aragón (Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Eurecat) - Decidim, free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations 3. Festival of Civic Tech for Democracy @ Personal Democracy Forum CEE 2019 April 6, 2019 Gdańsk, Poland

1. decidim.org
Decidim
free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations
Pablo Aragón
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Eurecat, Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya
Decidim Association
Festival of Civic Tech for Democracy
April 6, 2019, Gdańsk

2. Decidim: free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations decidim.org
/definition
● the city participatory democracy platform to host
multiple processes, government strategic
planning, citizen initiatives and other
(self)governance services.
● the biggest free/open software project of
Barcelona City Council, a prototype for public
funded, sovereign and participatory digital
infrastructures.
● co-designed by an open and collaborative
community, an ecosystems of small and medium
size businesses, organizations and citizens
decidim.barcelona is...
https://www.decidim.barcelona/
Impact

3. Decidim: free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations decidim.org
decidim
features

4. Decidim and the Municipal Action Plan in Barcelona: co-producing and auditing public policy through a political network decidim.org
● Everything is configurable from the admin
dashboard
● Participatory processes are modular
○ Steps, categories can be created for each
project
○ Features are like lego bricks you add to
your project
● Any participatory project can be mapped with a
little creativity
○ Participatory budgeting, Public
consultation, crowdlaw etc.
/extension
The Decidim framework
is the lego of digital democracy

6. Decidim: free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations decidim.org
/Principles
Social Contract
● Open to collaboration
● Transparency, traceability, integrity
● Democratic quality guarantees
● Privacy and security
Democratic guarantees code

7. Decidim: free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations decidim.org
/decidim.barcelona
● Three months process powered by decidim.barcelona to
co-design the actions to be carried out by the local
government in 2016-2019.
● Participatory strategic planning: Citizens discussed and
supported the petitions made by the government; but
also made, discussed and supported petitions by
citizens.
● 39.049 participants and 1.700 organizations
● 10.860 proposals
● 165.121 supports
● 1.467 actuations
● 500+ meetings (15.021 attendees)
● 72,2% citizen proposals were accepted
Municipal Action Plan
https://www.decidim.barcelona/processes/pam/

8. Decidim: free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations decidim.org
https://meta.decidim.org
/meta.decidim
Participatory design

9. Decidim: free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations decidim.org
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