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consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy

Consul Democracy - Open Government and E-Participation Web Software observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy · homepage · Ruby · AGPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

91/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 75
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 69
  • age_days: 4067
  • days_rel: 90
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 8

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1547 stars · 1121 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

CONSUL DEMOCRACY is an open-source Ruby on Rails web application for citizen participation and open government, originally built for the Madrid City government. It provides debates, citizen proposals, voting polls, participatory budgeting, and collaborative legislation, and is used by hundreds of cities and organizations worldwide.

Use cases

  • run participatory budgeting for a city
  • collect and evaluate citizen proposals online
  • host public debates on local policy
  • organize online voting polls for residents
  • collaboratively draft legislation with citizens
  • launch an e-participation portal for a municipality
  • create a transparent open government website
  • run multiple participation platforms with one installation

When to choose

  • a government or municipality needs a proven, battle-tested citizen participation platform
  • you want participatory budgeting, proposals, debates, and voting out of the box
  • you need multilingual, accessibility-compliant (WCAG) participation software
  • you want a verified Digital Public Good with an active foundation and community

When to avoid

  • you need a lightweight embeddable widget rather than a full Rails application
  • your use case is commercial community management rather than civic participation
  • you cannot operate and maintain a self-hosted Ruby on Rails deployment
  • you need a SaaS solution with managed hosting included

Facets

application · maturity stable

web-framework gui internationalization accessibility self-hosted e-government web-development developer-tools self-hosted self-hosted ruby citizen-participation e-participation participatory-budgeting open-government rails voting debates collaborative-legislation multi-tenancy agpl localization web-server docker linux

5 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
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