🎯 Meeting: Policies and technologies for participatory democracy.

This roundtable will serve to share reflections and experiences around the digital challenges of participatory democracy from 3 experiences articulated via Decidim: Brazil, New York and Barcelona, highlighting challenges, limits and potentialities of each.

With:

• Óscar Romero, Director of Information of the Civic Engagement Commission of New York.

• Carla Rocha, Responsible for the Deployment of Brasil Participa

• Carol Romero, Development Coordinator of Decidim, Localret.

🗓 April 11

🕰 10 - 12:15h

📍Canòdrom. Carrer Concepció Arenal, 5, Barcelona (only in person)

✍🏽 Inscripcions

🧩 Product Update: Roadmap 2024 and Beyond

The Product team has published a new post about the 2024 roadmap and other important updates. You can read it here: https://meta.decidim.org/processes/news/f/1719/posts/357 

🏗️ Decidim in use

Fresh news! Two new instances of Decidim stand out this month:

• The European Commission has launched its platform for different citizen participation processes, as well as for European citizen panels. You can access the platform through the following link: https://citizens.ec.europa.eu/index_en 

• The Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA) has deployed a participation process to define the criteria for the evaluation of merits and competences of university professors. They have used the Participatory Texts component very intensively. You can access the platform through the following link: https://participa.aneca.es/ 

🎉 New partners

We are grateful to announce two new Decidim official partners: Code for Japan and Urban Equipe. With them, we have 10 service providers organizations recognised as official partners. Thanks for contributing to Decidim ❤️

https://decidim.org/partners/ 

📢 General Assembly of the Decidim Association

On Thursday April 4th at 16h CEST we will hold the General Assembly of the Association. Anyone can attend the Assembly, but only members have the right to vote.

You can check all the information about the Assembly and register here: https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/general-assembly-association/f/1127/meetings/1957 

The link to join the meeting will be available a few minutes before the meeting starts on this same link.

Voting is now open for members: https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/general-assembly-association/f/1161/ 

🎨 New image of Metadecidim

If you haven't seen it yet, go to Metadecidim to discover the new identity. We have worked on some new designs with Berenice Zambrano (https://bzambrano.studio/). Many thanks to her!