THELleida City Council is one of the first municipalities in Catalonia to implement, in a pilot way, the participatory digital platform “Decidim Catalunya”.
This advanced participation tool allows, in a simple, intuitive and reliable way for citizens to take part in different participatory processes. In the pilot plan, the Town Councils of Alcover, Borges Blanques, Sort, Deltebre, La Ràpita and Tàrrega also take part.
The Decidim Catalunya project aims to make it easier for all local governments to have the necessary resources to promote citizen participation with quality guarantees, with the Decidim platform as a digital infrastructure and with a collaborative model of service and support in the framework of the Network of Transparent Governments.
In Lleida, the Decidim Catalunya platform is launched with four processes underway:
The Mayor of Lleida, Miquel Pueyo, emphasized that the implementation of this project is in line with the desire toIt would seem more transparent, sober, less pyramidal and improve public participation. Also to empower the citizenry and advance in participatory democracy, to bring together the diversity of views and the expertise of the citizenry to add and make reality projects with the widest possible consensus".
The Director General of Citizen Participation of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Albert Latorre, remarked that “this digital tool helps to encourage participation and participation: we need to increase the number of people involved".
Project Decidim Catalunya
The platform We decide It is open source and is designed to drive different participation mechanisms, such as participatory processes or participatory advice. It allows the publication of results of participatory processes with the possibility of evaluation and monitoring, and also has internal messaging and monitoring of participation data.
The Decidim Catalunya service is promoted and coordinated through the Network of Transparent Governments and is funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Its strategic objective is to offer the local world a comprehensive service, in a "turnkey" format that will include support, technical and functional support, technology, training, guides and good practices.
The Provincial Councils of Barcelona i Girona provide the service We decide directly. In the rest of the territory, the AOC is responsible for making the digital platform available to the local world and managing maintenance, developing the agreed developments and providing technical and functional support. In this case, the accompaniment will be carried out by the General Directorate of Citizen participation of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Deputation of Tarragona I la Deputation of Lleida.
