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Decidim
A free and open-source platform helping citizens, organizations, and public institutions self-organize democratically at every scale through strategic planning, assembly coordination, citizen initiatives, participatory budgeting, and networked dialogue. The platform ensures transparency, traceability, and integrity of information while providing security, privacy, and confidentiality. Used by major institutions including city governments in Barcelona, New York City, the European Commission, Helsinki, and Mexico City.
Related Capabilities
Aggregate perspectives
Representativeness
Ability to aggregate votes and distill more complex forms of open-ended input into outputs and decisions, in fair and understandable ways, such that participants feel their contributions are meaningfully taken into account (and can ideally see how).
Localize participation
Deliberation
Ability to run processes in multiple languages and cultural contexts in real time and account for linguistic differences in the precise intent of outputs.