Decidim & civic techs

Participatory democracy powered by a reliable solution

The Decidim participatory democracy platform can be put at your disposal for all your consultation projects, debates, participatory budgets and shared governance simply and quickly. Among many advantages, it allows to reinforce the perceived trust of citizens in participative processes by being transparent and open-source from the beginning.

Contrary to many civic-tech solutions, Decidim benefits from an open source license, which not only strengthens its security compared to other solutions but also its transparency in terms of data management. The platform was born out of experiments conducted throughout Europe and benefits from European support for its development. It has been used internationally for several years and is based on solid and mature know-how.

Decidim is built around advanced but easy-to-use modules that allow you to create, administer and moderate activities such as consultations, meetings, debates, participatory budgets and even votes. This solution also includes statistics, user accounts and community management modules.

Decidim is used by cities such as Barcelona, Mexico City, New York, and Helsinki.

A participatory democracy platform available in 48 hours

We are offering a SaaS (Software as a Service) version of Decidim, accessible and usable within 48 hours via Voca. The Decidim instance will always be hosted in Switzerland, on our partners' highly secure and scalable servers.

For projects requiring absolute control over data: we install Decidim on your servers working with your technical team.

With a technology based on Ruby on Rails & Docker, you are in good hands: these technologies have been at the core of our work since the beginning. Octree is a partner of Decidim: we have contributed to the project by developing updates for it. We answer frankly to your specific needs: if they are not already scheduled in the evolutions planned by the community, we will gladly propose you a custom development.

Whichever option you choose, we always deliver the platform with administration training and support.

We accompany the State of Geneva in the management of Decidim for their platform Participer.ge.ch.

Cities & NGOs: a complete support in digital democracy

What approach to adopt, how to launch your project, how to initiate a public dialogue and maintain it? With the implementation of your platform, we offer you a tailor-made support: whether your platform is active on a local, regional or territorial scale, we help you to establish your participatory strategy, your digital communication, and to measure the credibility of your approach with citizens. Finally, we can also measure the usability of your platform with scientific UX (user experience) research methods.

Need help creating and publishing content on the platform, or facilitating consultations? We are always at your side.

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