The time has come! Save the date: November 4-5-6 Decidim Fest 2025

In a world where big tech monopolies shape our digital lives and authoritarianism is gaining ground, the question of who owns, designs, and controls technology has never been more pressing.

What are the technopolitical principles that guarantee that a technology is open and equitable? What public policies should be promoted to ensure the sustainability of Digital Heritage? How do we “reconfigure” digital infrastructures so that they serve social transformation rather than corporate interests?

Decidim FEST 2025 will be a very special edition dedicated to reflecting on building technology as a public good. We will be collaborating with MozFest, which will be held in Barcelona from November 7 to 9, to organize the Barcelona Open Tech Week, an event that positions the city as a hub for technology for the common good at the intersection of democracy, technology, and digital rights.

Let’s collectively imagine and build open, democratic digital infrastructures linked to the public good.

📌Mark November 4-5-6 on your calendar, more details coming soon!

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Docs Review Party Vol.4

Party is calling! Join us in the last Docs Review Party to review the updated documentation of Decidim v0.30 and contribute to the to keep Decidim's community growing. The documentation will help any organization, institution or community to understand Decidim and to progressively make it available in several languages by 2026.

🗓 18 June

⏰16h CEST

Online

👉🏽https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-comunitat/f/149/meetings/2091

Monthly Devs & Design Calls

The new working groups meetings keep happening and waiting for you. If you have issues installing the software, want a step by step introduction to do so or have proposals for new interaction procedures and user experience, these are your call. Join the conversation and help better build the community!

👉🏽 Developers & Implementers Community Meetings: https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-comunitat/f/149/meetings/2092

👉🏽 Design Community Meetings: https://meta.decidim.org/assemblies/eix-px/f/79/meetings/2040

News Corner

Decidim on Tour!

This month we’re on the move. The Association is travelling around to attend conferences, debates and meetings that will enhance Decidim growth.

EDDY - European Network for Digital Democracy 🔍

Carol Romero, Product Manager at Decidim, participates in EDDY 2025 – the 2nd Conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy, taking place at Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Paris.

The event brings together researchers and practitioners to explore digital democracy.  how digital technologies shape our collective epistemic responsibilities — and how we can design more transparent, accountable, and democratic digital infrastructures.

Carol will share insights from Decidim, and how it has grown into a global digital commons, used by governments, institutions, and communities to facilitate citizen engagement. She will reflect on how the project continues to redefine the relationship between technology and democracy, offering an alternative to proprietary software in the realm of participatory processes.

UN Open Source Week 2025 🎒

The event features a full week of networking, insightful panels, hackathons, and breakout sessions exploring topics related to open source, digital public infrastructure, problem solving, and digital cooperation.

Nil Homedes, Technical Office Manager at Decidim, and Arnau Monterde, Participation and Democratic Innovation Director at Barcelona City Council, travel to New York to attend this conference the UN Open Source Week, contributing to a site event dedicated to Digital Public Goods as Infrastructure: Use Cases and Practical Considerations.

The team will meet with the NYC Civic Engagement Comission, coordinators of the participatory platform for city’s budget developed using Decidim, to envision future opportunities and institutional collaborations.

NGI Forum 🌐

Decidim lands in the NGI Forum, where Alejandra González, member of the Decidim’s Coordination Committee, will participate in the Impact Stories session, reflecting on our Decidim Revamp project developed with NGI - Zero Commons Fund.

By bringing together experts and innovators, the Forum seeks to strengthen Europe’s position as a leader in digital innovation, ensuring that new technologies align with European values of openness, trust, and security.

We’re looking for Decidim successful use cases!

We keep looking for Decidim stories! If you have any news related to infrastructure, have used Decidim in your city, town or organisation or have published any communication piece about us, we would like to know about it. 🙂

Write to us at press@decidim.org

In the spotlight

At Decidim we like to recommend interesting articles, resources and materials about our community and open source ecosystem. In this edition we focus on digital platforms as a way to support community-driven economic models and the implication of technology in upholding democratic values and human rights.

• Zine from the We Robot 2025 Conference: The document emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to address the challenges posed by the convergence of technology and authoritarian governance. It also highlights the role of education and public discourse in fostering a society that values democratic principles over technological determinism.

• Civic Protocol Economies: Exploring the Intersection of Community and Technology. The publication investigates the convergence of two emerging economic models: the civic economy and the protocol economy.

• 1984 was yesterday: Why we need open-source tools today: In 1984, George Orwell imagined a world where information was completely controlled. Today, that dystopia is more real than ever: four major corporations — Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta — concentrate power over how we communicate, work, and organize ourselves.