Decidim: Participatory, Free and Open Source Democracy
summary
Decidim is an open-source, collaboratively developed web framework built in Ruby on Rails for participatory democracy. It lets governments, NGOs, universities and other organizations deploy platforms for large-scale citizen participation such as strategic planning, participatory budgeting, public consultations and collaborative policy drafting. The talk presents the project’s history since its 2017 start in Barcelona, its 400+ global installations, and lessons from deployments in places like Helsinki, Mexico City, New York, the French National Assembly, the Italian government and the European Commission.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:55What is Decidim
- 4:03Three project layers
- 7:17Techno-politics and governance
- 14:22Real use cases
- 20:04Funding and sustainability
- 27:25Community and development
- 34:28Q&A
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