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🇨🇭 Today is a special day for the Decidim community in Switzerland!
This afternoon, the Swiss Decidim community gathers in Bern to found the first-ever Decidim Local Chapter, creating a shared home for everyone who uses, develops, researches, or supports Decidim in Switzerland. Representatives from the Decidim Free Software Association will also join the event.
We're excited to see the Decidim ecosystem continue to grow through local collaboration, knowledge sharing, and democratic innovation.
Curious about the latest features in Decidim 0.32? We've prepared a short walkthrough to show you the most important updates in action
You'll discover:
✨ A redesigned front-end navigation experience
🗳️ New improvements for elections
👥 Clearer access management with the new Access Mode
And many more!
Whether you're a platform administrator, participation practitioner, or developer, this video will help you get up to speed with everything that's new in the latest release
We’re happy to announce that this Thursday, Decidim will host a Release Party for the newly released v0.32 candidate! 🐞🚀
During the session, we’ll present the main highlights of the release, including key new features, improvements, and fixes. After that, we’ll jump into a collaborative bug-hunting session using the v0.32 testing environment
The event will take place on Thursday, May 14th, starting at 16:00 CEST. It’s open to everyone, just register and join the fun!
https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-comunitat/f/149/meetings/2163
✨ Some good news to start the year
A recent Jacobin article on municipal governance and mass democracy, focused on the political project around Zohran Mamdani in NYC, explores how cities can move beyond symbolic participation toward ongoing, collective decision-making.
The piece mentions Decidim as a concrete example of participatory democracy in practice as part of a broader ecosystem combining digital platforms, assemblies, and grassroots organizing.
Read more: https://jacobin.com/2026/01/mamdani-municipal-governance-mass-democracy
What is the Executive Directorate of #Decidim?
The #ExecutiveDirectorate (ED) in the Association is essentially the team that turns decisions into action.
Now you can contribute to the discussion on hot topics related to its governance:
✴️How many members should the Executive Directorate have?
✴️Which are its responsibilities?
✴️What should it be accountable for?
Contribute and leave your thoughts!
https://meta.decidim.org/processes/internal-regulation-process/f/2004/debates/264
Second speaker confirmed! ⚡️
The #DecidimFest25 will also feature @robin@mastodon.social, technologist specialising in digital technology governance. His work focuses on building democratic governance of technology so that our digital sphere begins to work for the public good.
During the Fest, he will participate in a round table discussion dedicated to the open web, a crucial debate in today’s landscape where big tech platforms dominate digital life.
@paukokura@social.anartist.org Con ganas de verlo en funcionamiento! 😍
📣 The roadmap process results are in!
We’re excited to share that you can now check the proposals selected for implementation from the roadmap participatory process on Metadecidim! 🎯
We’ll also be posting updates directly on the selected proposals as the work progresses, so you can follow along.
Thank you to everyone who has taken part in this year’s roadmap process.
📢 Nova sessió al Canòdrom Ateneu d'Innovació Digital i Democràtica per aprofundir en l’ús de Decidim.
Curs: especialitza’t en pressupostos i seguiment
Una proposta formativa pensada per anar més enllà de l’ús bàsic de la plataforma i explorar dues eines clau:
👉 els pressupostos participatius
👉 el seguiment i monitoratge de processos
Apunta't!
https://comunitat.canodrom.barcelona/assemblies/comunitat/f/1947/meetings/3137
Decidim 0.31 is out with exciting new features and improvements! 🔔
This release brings a major upgrade to Rails 7.2, a more capable and polished API, and two new components: Elections and Collaborative Texts. It also includes numerous UX enhancements and fixes across the platform.
For the full tour of what’s new, check out the release notes: https://decidim.org/blog/2025-11-20-new-version-0-31-0/
🌟 Today is #GivingTuesday!
Decidim is an open-source platform empowering transparent, participatory democracy across the world.
If you believe in collective decision-making, open governance, and strengthening communities, we invite you to make a contribution today. Every donation helps continue building tools that put people at the center of decision-making.
👉 Contribute here: https://opencollective.com/decidim/donate?interval=oneTime&amount=20&name=&legalName=&email=
🚀 #DecidimFest25 Highlights
🔹 Over 60 members met at the General Assembly.
🔹 Keynotes stressed why public institutions must own and control their digital infrastructures.
🔹 Inspiring global use cases: fNew York, Japan, Gothenburg and Participa311.
🔹 Decentralised social media reminded us that openness, usability and good governance matter as much as technology.
Catch up with everything:
https://meta.decidim.org/processes/news/f/1719/posts/376
Thanks to all of you that join us this year, see you in 2026 🔥
We announce the keynote speaker for #DecidimFest25 ⏰
The Fest programme (4-6 November) will be released in the coming weeks.
The main keynote speaker is Dr @ruha9@mastodon.social, sociologist & Princeton professor.
She’s a leading voice on how science & tech shape the world, uncovering links between innovation, inequality, race, power & justice.
This year’s Fest focuses on co-constructing public, open & sustainable technologies. See you there!
February kicks off an important phase for the Decidim Association: the Internal Regulations process moves forward with a new round of community deliberation where updated draft articles will be discussed collectively.
This round focuses on essential aspects such as technological governance, conflict resolution, member rights and responsibilities, and coordination mechanisms.
👉 Learn more and follow the process in the latest community newsletter: https://meta.decidim.org/processes/news/f/1719/posts/378
Barcelona Open Tech Week is here 🌍
📅 4–9 November 2025
This November, Barcelona will host conversations, workshops and debates, all in the name of open technologies and a better-tech future.
#BCNOpenTechWeek brings together MozFest, Decidim and the Barcelona City Council, uniting global communities to imagine technology as a commons for all.
Join us and be part of what’s next.
https://canodrom.barcelona/en/opentechweek
New at #Metadecidim? Wondering how can you participate? Here you have the guidelines! 🌈
You can contribute in many ways, from improving the software and documentation to participating in governance discussions. Your involvement is key to the project.
Ready to explore how #digital platforms can drive #socialchange?💥
Recent events have shown the power of digital participation and civic engagement. Communities worldwide are leveraging online platforms to collaborate, deliberate, make collective decisions, and drive meaningful change. An example comes from #Nepal, where #GenerationZ used the #Discord platform to organize discussions, debates, and decision-making processes.
Next week, the Decidim team will be at #FOSDEM2025! 🎉 Some of our team members will present talks across three devrooms. 🌍💻 Check out the details so you don’t miss a thing! 🧵👇
Saps que pots tenir un Decidim molt a prop teu? 🧠 Decidim s’utilitza arreu del món per administracions públiques, institucions i organitzacions que volen fer la participació democràtica més oberta i col·laborativa.
Actualment:
🌐 Més de 480 instàncies actives
🌍 En més de 30 països
🏛️ Centenars d’institucions i organitzacions
⚡️Prop d’un milió de participants implicats en processos participatius i propostes d'arreu
Explora'ls tots ;)
https://decidim.org/usedby/
✨ 2025 amb vista enrere: un any de creixement col·laboratiu per #Decidim!
Aquest 2025 ha estat un any intens i ple d’avenços per Decidim i la nostra comunitat global. ➡️ Per llegir el resum complet de l’any 2025: https://decidim.org/blog/2025-12-23-2025-in-a-wrap/
Why technology is political: new podcast about #Decidim at Democracy Innovators. 🎙️
In this new podcast, Carol Romero, Product Manager at Decidim and Andrés Pereira de Lucena, Chief Technology Officer of Decidim, give us a powerful reminder: digital platforms are never neutral.
Projects like Decidim show how we can embed democratic values directly into digital infrastructures.
📣 Pas endavant per a la democràcia digital!
L’Associació Decidim ha creat el Comitè d’Institucions Públiques, amb el suport de sis institucions d’arreu del món 🌍
Aquest comitè reforça Decidim com a infraestructura digital pública i referma el valor dels béns digitals comuns.
https://decidim.org/blog/2025-11-13-decidim-association-creates-public-institutions-committee/
Decidim 0.32 is out with exciting new features and improvements! 🚀
This release brings a redesigned navigation experience for participants, improvements to elections, smarter content sorting, better comments performance, expanded Write API capabilities, URL-based locale handling, and an upgrade to Rails 8.1 with security support through October 2027.
For the full tour of what's new, check out the release notes:
📢 The latest Decidim newsletter is out!
⏳ Last call to participate
The Internal Regulation debates are entering their final phase (closing May 10).
This is a key moment to help shape how the Decidim Association governs itself, review, comment, or suggest edits directly.
📅 Save the date
-Decidim Fest 2026 → October 28–30
-Final meeting on Technological Governance → May 7
-Release Party for version 0.32 → May 14
Read more:
https://meta.decidim.org/processes/news/f/1719/posts/382