Decidim is a software framework for citizan participation in democratic processes. These processes can involve elections, sortitions, referenda, initiatives, and other processes, or even multiple independent processes, as the system is configured on an ongoing basis. The public participates in the political activity topics using smart phones, computers, etc. The Decidim system gradually developed after the May 15 2011 political movement in Spain, and the resulting Podemos mov

When people are asked whether they live in a democracy, they often respond based on the state of their national government, and whether it’s responsive to election outcomes. Perhaps we should answer instead by thinking about the state of democracy in our citizens and town. Local democracy is the level of democracy in which most human beings participate. But we don’t have the same rankings, measures and data to compare cities on democracy that institutions like V-Dem or Freedo