Sostenibilitat econòmica

Proposta oficial

Actualment l'Associació Decidim té una gran dependència del finançament públic. Concretament, de dues subvencions que rep per part de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona (100k) i de la Generalitat de Catalunya (50k). Aquests ingressos permeten sostenir l'Oficina Tècnica i pagar altres despeses menors. A més, existeix un contracte de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona a través del qual es contracta els/les cuidadors/es de Decidim.

No obstant això, dependre tant del finançament públic i de tan poques institucions és un risc. Com ja hem vist, podem perdre aquests diners per motius burocràtics, -tal com ens va passar amb els 50k de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona l'any passat- o bé per canvis en els governs, que podrien comportar la retirada del suport institucional. Per això és imperatiu treballar per a diversificar qualitativa i quantitativament les fonts de finançament de l'Associació.

Aquest debat busca discutir quines estratègies seguir per a garantir la sostenibilitat del projecte a llarg termini.

Preguntes per al debat

Com pot l'Associació obtenir recursos a partir de tota l'activitat econòmica que es genera al voltant de Decidim?
Com podem ampliar el número i el tipus d'actors que poden donar suport al projecte, més enllà de les institucions catalanes? En particular, tindria cabuda que institucions públiques o ong’s, etc. usuàries del SW de decidim donin suport al projecte?
Quin tipus de serveis pot oferir l'Associació?
Quines altres estratègies de sostenibilitat hauríem d'explorar?

És necessari tenir en compte aquells aspectes que ja estan definits en els Estatuts de l'Associació:

Articulo 4.3. Defineix els serveis com una activitat de l'Associació.

Articulo 20. La gestió de les subvencions públiques i privades correspon al comitè de coordinació.

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Lucien Langton

12 mesos

Hi Xabier ! Thank you for this proposal, while I'm wishing the best for Decidim.org's financial sustainability, I agree on all the points mentioned except on the 3rd (Decidim.org should be able to deliver profesional services of the highest quality (consulting, development, etc.)), on which I see several risks.

This will blur the boundaries between the role of providers and the association, and will dissipate the association's energy in a profesionnal activity, which might in turn generate the following effects:
- Competitiveness within the association (members who are also providers), this could also affect the quality of trust and service in the community
- The association will spend time providing billed financial services instead of investing time in generating partnerships or looking for funds, this will in turn enable more private-public opportunities regarding point 4 (Decidim.org should partner and lead innovative research projects).

However, points 3b and 3c are super relevant and could be included in a quota mechanism of persons eligible for the comittee, or the affectation to specific roles within the association, but that seems to be more of a governance issue.

Renato

Hello all, this is a good debate and there are good ideas, turn the decidim project and association sustainable, is crucial for democracy, I think.
So, following the issue exposed by Lucien, to get the boundaries clears between providers and association, maybe an idea is search and train new providers, something like a certification course that endorse the provider as a good decidim provider.
So, with more providers, more resources can be returned to association, as the providers can support them.

Xabier

11 mesos

This is a good idea, I think the association could provide this type of certification and courses.

11 mesos Editat

Thanks @llangton ! I understand your concerns and partly agree with you. Note the subtelty that I expressed in point 3 that the association "should be able to" instead of "should do X" as I express on the other points. I don't think that, right now, the association should deliver those services, and I don't think it should invest energy on providing decidim instances or other technical services. But I think it should keep the possibility open. That is, I think we should NOT legally (on internal regulation) preclude that it does. This is why I included the "should be able to". I agree with you that we can gain experience 3.b and 3.c by partnering. But I think that the possibility should exist because there are many cases in which the whole project could fail if we cut down the very capacity of the association. One such scenario is one in which a single company monopolizes most services, for example. There are other scenarios also, but you can imagine what a terrible obstacle would be for the community to have forbidden to provide services. So I think delivering the type of service that worries you is something the association should strategically NOT do, but it is something it should have the possibility to do.

Thank you for bringing clarity to this point @xabier !
Sorry I missread this, I totally agree with your position.

Valentin Chaput

I agree with Xabier's plan but share Lucien's concern. In my opinion, the best situation would be that the association provides (paid?) services to the community such as certification courses as proposed by Renato, labeling of quality providers, organisation of the Fest, documentation... but not to the final users of the software as we know that much more resources are involved (devops, consulting...).

We could also imagine a commission for business referral if the association redirects inquiries to the service providers. There is a whole governance of this mechanism to develop, in order to encourage collaboration - which already exists - between service providers.

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