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Decidim na free, open-source participation platform, wey Barcelona City Council start for 2016 and wey cities, regions and organisations around di world dey use now. E dey host whole participatory programmes: processes, assemblies, initiatives and consultations, participatory budgets, meetings, and to track whether dem carry out di proposals wey dem approve.
True Causes narrow pass well-well: one method, wey dem do well. E dey answer one question inside participatory process, wetin dey cause dis problem?, with map wey di participants certify by demself.
| Decidim | True Causes | |
|---|---|---|
| Wetin e be | Platform to run participation programmes | Tool for one step: to find causes |
| Wetin pipo dey do | Propose, comment, vote, attend meetings, share budgets | Evribodi dey write causes alone; den di group dey judge one pair at a time: dis cause get big hand for dat one? |
| Wetin dey comot | Proposals, votes, budgets, and dia follow-up | Map of causes, di deepest first, with evri disagreement wey still dey on am; den actions wey dem judge against di deepest causes, and di plan wey di room choose, if one win evri comparison |
| Who dey run am | Usually institution, for im own server | Any group; we dey host am, notin to install |
| Open source | Yes (AGPLv3) | We dey host am, e no be open source. Di results dey open: pesin fit read and download di map of public room, evri claim (JSON) and evri pair wey dem judge with im vote counts (CSV) without account |
| Cost | Free software; hosting and setup na your own | Free up to 100 pipo for each room; nonprofits free if dem approve; paid plans for organisations |
| Who fit take part | Dem dey verify participants, by plenti methods | Open link, invite, entry code, email domain, one confirmed address for each member, members wey dey stand for pipo, or di coordinator approval |
| Meetings | Meetings face to face and online, with registration | Video call for each group if you want (Jitsi), for Explain and Arrange; no accounts, nobodi dey record |
| Discussion | Comments and debates | Short side discussion beside each card, each pair and each action wey dem propose |
| Random selection | Sortition component | Dem dey share groups by lot inside evri room |
| Moderation | Moderation of content wey pipo report | AI reading bifor card or turn post, if you want am; if e be like attack on pesin, na only di pesin wey write am dem go tell and na im go decide |
| Notifications | Notifications inside di app and newsletters | Email invitations and reminders |
Wen institution want permanent house for public participation, with plenti kain process under one roof and record of wetin happen to each proposal.
As di diagnosis step of one process: bifor city ask residents for proposals, let dem map wetin dey cause di problem. Pesin fit embed di map of room inside any page, Decidim process page inside, and export im data for di record.
Im oda kain map dey fit di later steps of di same process. Priorities dey rank di concerns of one neighbourhood bifor budget round; Weigh di options dey settle di yardsticks wey dem go use judge proposals; Steps one by one dey arrange di work for order once dem choose proposal. Room fit also end with predictions wey get date about im actions, wey dem go check against wetin happen. Proposals, budgets and di record of wetin happen to each one dey stay for Decidim.
We check am for September 2026. Product names belong to dia owners. If anytin here about anoda product don old or e no fair, write to hello@mg.truecauses.org and we go correct am.
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