decidim/decidim

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

Decidim is a free, open-source participatory democracy framework built as a Ruby on Rails application generator and set of gems. It lets cities, institutions, NGOs, and other organizations configure digital participation spaces such as participatory processes, assemblies, initiatives, consultations, and participatory budgeting.

Use cases

• run participatory budgeting for a city council
• host citizen consultations and initiatives online
• manage assemblies and working groups with agendas and meetings
• collect proposals and votes from community members
• set up a public engagement platform for an NGO or university
• self-host an open-source civic participation website

When to choose

• you need a proven, feature-rich platform for structured democratic participation at any scale
• you want free software with transparency, traceability, and strong community governance
• your organization (city, NGO, cooperative, university) needs configurable participatory processes
• you want a Rails-based, modular, self-hostable solution with an active global community

When to avoid

• you only need a simple survey or polling tool without governance workflows
• your team cannot maintain a Ruby on Rails application or self-hosted server
• you need a lightweight SaaS with no deployment or administration overhead
• your use case is commercial community engagement rather than democratic decision-making

Facets

framework · maturity active

web-framework self-hosted workflow-automation auth e-government web-development self-hosted developer-tools ruby self-hosted participatory-democracy civic-engagement participatory-budgeting rails consultations assemblies open-government web-server linux

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