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a digital common’s infrastructure for participatory democracy
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Context
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Cognitive Capitalism
● Third wave of capitalism: industrial, financial, cognitive.
● The accumulation of technological/cognitive capital
○ Centralization of services: Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.
○ Identity control
○ Content management and market
○ Structuring and disruption of social behaviour
○ Data control and analytics
○ A.I.
● Platform capitalism:
○ Data extractivism
○ Cyberwar to drive the social mind (post-truth)
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Digital Commons
What is decidim.barcelona?
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● Decidim.Barcelona is the Barcelona’s participatory democracy platform. It
hosts participatory processes, government strategic planning, citizen initiatives
and other (self)governance services.
● Decidim.Barcelona is the biggest free/open software project of Barcelona
City Council, a prototype for public funded, sovereign and participatory digital
infrastructures.
● Decidim.Barcelona is an open and collaborative community, an ecosystemsof
small and medium size businesses, organizations and citizens: meta.decidim
○ LAB.meta.decidim
○ SOM.meta.decidim
○ JAM.meta.decidim
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Barcelona Digital platform for
participatory democracy
Public-commons partnership
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Community meta.decidim
Decidim.Barcelona is an open and
collaborative community, an
ecosystemsof small and medium size
businesses, organizations and citizens:
meta.decidim
● LAB.meta.decidim
● SOM.meta.decidim
● JAM.meta.decidim
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Open to collaboration
Free to be used, copied, modified, deployed
(source code at github). Free/Open licences
guarantee collaboration:
● Affero GPLv3 for code
● CreativeCommons By-SA for content
● Open Access Database Licences for public
data
This means that Decidim.Barcelona is auditable,
collaborative, trustable, common, … thus
democratic.
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barcelona’s web platform for
participatory democracy
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● 26504 users
● 11 processes
● 11723 proposals
● 1677 results
○ commitments of public administration to
execute plans, actions or policies
● 19045 comments
● 665 public meetings
● 183864 votes
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Stage 3:
Stage 2: Multi-organization
Stage 1:
Multi-process Decidim.barcelona as a
PAM
Decidim as a platform for Decidim hosts multiple service to the city
massively participated participatory processes
strategic planning (and organs)
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History of Decidim
Re-engineering city democracy
Feb Mar Abr May Jun Jul Ago Sept Oct Nov Dic Ene
September 2016
Abril 2017
Participatory process
Proposal collecting and configurator is designed
voting is closed: +10.000
proposals collected
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History of Decidim
Re-engineering city democracy
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participatory strategic planning
a case study
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Barcelona Participatory Strategic Planning
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Proposals
Proposal distribution
by subject and
categories
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How it works?
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➔ Digital and public-common
democratic infrastructure.
➔ Coverage, structure, standardize
and democratic quality criteria in
the participation processes
➔ Open, accessible and transversal
participation
➔ Political network with security and
privacy guarantees
Project website:
https://decidim.github.io/
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Propose, meet, deliberate, decide,
monitor: join democracy
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Configure participatory processes
easily
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Participatory budgeting for real
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Online and offline integration
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Modular, scalable, configurable:
collaborate and upgrade
Registration
➔ Users and organizations
➔ Levels: Registration and
verification
➔ Anonymity, security and privacy
➔ Notifications and newsletters
➔ Social contract
➔ Social Networks login
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Participatory Processes
Participatory processes is one of the main
participation units of the platform.
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Components
➔ Proposals
➔ Supports
➔ Meetings
➔ Debates
➔ Comments and deliberation
➔ Participatory budgeting
➔ Results
➔ Accountability
➔ Visualizations
➔ Open data
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Meetings
Meeting
➔ Place and time
➔ Description
➔ Categories
Actions
➔ Document the session (Minutes,
Pictures, number of participants,
organizations)
➔ Create proposals from the meeting
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Debates
Debates with Councillors
➔ Date and time
➔ Support to citizen questions
Deliberation
Deliberation process
➔ Proposal
➔ Debate
➔ Project
➔ Result
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Results
This component allows to have the
whole participation history of a result.
Aggregates all the participation data:
➔ Nº of Proposals
➔ Nº of Meetings
➔ Nº of Supports
➔ Nº of Comments
It is connected to:
➔ Proposals
➔ Meetings
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Accountability
This component allows to monitor the
level of execution of a project.
It is navigable by categories and
subcategories.
It is interactive and is related to
results.
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User page
➔ Personal data
◆ Name and email
➔ Privacy options
➔ Manage notifications
➔ Verification status
➔ Remove account
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Administration
Administration panel
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Mid-term development
➔ Participation Councils
➔ Citizen Initiatives
◆ Processes
◆ Referendums
◆ Councils
◆ Actions
➔ Collaborative legislation
➔ Position elections
➔ Horizontal communication
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Long-term development
➔ Federation
➔ Distributed Back-end (IPFS,
Blockchain)
➔ Secure electronic voting integration
➔ Digitales signatures
➔ Gamification(p.e. Discourse)
➔ App (mobile)
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Extension
➔ Collaboration agreement between City
of Barcelona and another 8 cities and 2
regional government.
➔ Democratic contract
➔ Collaboration between cities and other
institutions
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from social to political networks
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infrastructure for democratic commons
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Website: decidim.github.io
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