Hal Seki. Founder of Code for Japan
The first Decidim instance in the Pacific island was deployed on the year 2020 at Kakosawa, later came Yosano, Nishiaizu, Kamaishi and the community instance Meta.
Why did you choose Decidim?
First, Decidim...
Blog
Latest news from Decidim.
Paulo Rosa, Policy Analyst at the European Commission
The European Commission used Decidim to implement the multilingual digital platform of the Conference on the Future of Europe.
The Conference on the Future of Europe was a pan-European initiative...
Sanna Moisala, Project manager of participatory services at the The Helsinki City Executive Office. Digitalisation Unit
In 2017 City Council of Helsinki decided that participatory budgeting would be one of the tools for residents' participation...
Improvements to existing features
We are releasing a new version with several improvements in different components.
Admin
On 1 February 2017 decidim.org was born, the free and open source platform for participatory democracy, conceived and promoted by the Barcelona City Council.
Exactly one year earlier, the first instance of decidim's software...
Security researchers recently found out an extremely critical level vulnerability in the Log4j Java library. This vulnerability was publicly announced on 10th December 2021 as CVE-2021-44228 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44228) and affects...
Decidim is an open-source platform for participatory democracy that enables citizens to influence the creation of citizenship centric public policies and in the public agenda. At a global scale, over 150 institutions and...
Release highlights
👷‍♀️🚧 Release 0.25 is a mainly technical release where we have addressed some important refactors. If you are an implementer, please check the upgrade notes: https://github.com/decidim/decidim/releases/tag/v0.25.0
Improvements...
What’s the job
We’re looking for someone to lead the management of the association, together with the Coordination Committee. As Project Manager, you will be a key part of the team that is responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing the internal...
What’s the job
We’re looking for someone to become part of the Decidim family, more specifically of the project backbone! Someone with passion for programming and problem solving, who will be in charge of maintaining the core repository of Decidim...
What’s the job
We are looking for someone to take care of the Decidim community and the contributions that its members make to the project. On a daily basis you will interact with a multidisciplinary group of people, that includes a variety of profiles...
Release highlights
Admin
This version adds important improvements related to moderation. Decidim instances have more and more activity, and with activity comes SPAM, bots and other internet phenomena đź‘ľ.
We have added a global moderation panel to...
The Free Software Association Decidim has signed a collaboration agreement between the Department of External Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Barcelona City Council.
The aim is to promote participatory...
Improvements to existing features
System
Maps and geocoding are now fully configurable, and there’s a standardized API to plug any possible service to the map functionality in Decidim: dynamic maps, static maps, geocoding and geocoding autocompletion...
Improvements to existing features
Admin
Now in the administration panel you can check some statistics about the activity on the platform. We added new notifications and the option of searching for participants through their e-mail. Admins now also...
Decidim is an open-source platform for participatory democracy that enables citizens to influence the creation of citizenship centric public policies and in the public agenda. At a global scale, over 150 institutions and...
Improvements to existing features
API
We have extended the coverange of the API to all available (read-only) public content and some search capabilities:
- Added documentation to use the API (newcomers friendly). #5582
- Add search and order capabilities...
Decidim is an open-source platform for participatory democracy that enables citizens to influence in the creation of citizenship centric public policies and in the public agenda. At a global scale, over 150 institutions...
Improvements to existing features
Admin
- Now admins can export/import participatory processes, specially useful when working on a blank instance or deploying processes with the same structure that repeat over time.#5422,#5424
- In order to...
A company may announce a commitment to emit less CO2 in order to hide a court ruling on a toxic spill, but that doesn’t make the company any greener. A political party may submit parity lists to elections...
Improvements to existing features
Admin
- Add CSV Import to Participatory Space Private Users. #5304
Consultations
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Allow multi-choice answers to questions in consultations. #5356
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Allow to restrict voting to a question by adding...
Improvements to existing features
Consultations
Better user experience related to Consultations/Questions. #5112
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Change button appearance when listing questions in the Consultation page depending on whether the user has voted it or not
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Improvements to existing features
Participatory texts
In order to improve this feature, several changes have been made:
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Added a button to reset all participatory text drafts. #4814
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Add text formatting capabilities to MarkdownToProposals...
New Features
Amendments
With the Amendments feature any participant can edit the text of a proposal and a “sub-proposal” will be created as an amendment. This amendment may gather endorsements and supports. The author of the original proposal may...
Translation note: this document is a translation to English of a blog post by Xabier E. Barandiaran (with permission). Since this document might evolve independently, we have substituted first person singular forms by first person plural.
Many people...
New Features
Metrics
Added metrics visualization for differents Participatory Spaces and Components.
- See metrics docs
- Added metrics visualization for Users and Proposals (all, accepted and votes) #3603
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Added metrics visualization for...
New Features
Hashtags
Badges
New features
This is a special release to comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation
GDPR
New features
Assemblies
Several improvements have been made to Assemblies, such as:
New features
We have plenty of features to announce. For a complete list please visit the changelog. Here is a list of some of the most relevant new features:
- Blogs!: This first one you might already noticed, this post is an example :)
- New...
New features
Admin log
In order to improve control on what other admins are doing, we want all actions done by admins to be logged and shown in a log feed in the admin section. #2603
For each action, we want to see:
- User who performed the action
New features
This new release adds important improvements, especially in terms of communication between participants, such as:
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Nicknames: Unique usernames for participants have been added. #2360
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User officialization: Admins can...
New features
New features
- Customization: Administrators can customize both the text and the URL of the home's main button. #2053
- Meetings: The admins of a process can invite other users to participate in a meeting. #1879
Improvements in usability
Hello world! Today we launch the website of Decidim, the digital platform of citizen participation for municipalities and organizations 100% free and open source software. Many of you already know it...
Noves funcionalitats i millores d’usabilitat
- Òrgans (assemblies). S’estrena el nou component d’Assemblies (en fase beta), a través del qual els òrgans de participació poden disposar d’un espai propi a la plataforma. Aquesta primera versió (MVP...
Noves funcionalitats i millores d'usabilitat
- Fitxers adjunts a una proposta. Desde l’admin es pot habilitar l’opciĂł per permetre adjuntar documents a una proposta. El format permès Ă©s PDF o imatge. Al formulari s’ha d’introduir tambĂ© el tĂtol del...
Noves funcionalitats i millores d’usabilitat
- Enviament de notificació quan un Resultat rep un comentari (#1543). Fins ara només rebien notificacions de nous comentaris els autors/es d'una proposta. Ara també s'envien notificacions als administradors...