Consul Democracy 2.6.1
Complete citizen participation tool platform made in Ruby on Rails for an open, transparent and democratic government.
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- 5+ commits in 6 months, issues responded to within 7 days
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- No known vulnerabilities at release, critical CVEs fixed within a day
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- 75%+ merge requests reviewed, 80%+ tags signed
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- Protected branches, security policy, fast issue response
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Features
- Debates: Open up spaces for debate and discussion among citizens, invite opinions and ideas and pave the way for informed decision-making.
- Citizen Proposals: Invite citizen proposals for the next strategic city plan or policy-making cycle, stimulate debate and see which enjoy the most support.
- Voting Polls: Successfully collected proposals or ideas? Wrap up the participatory process by letting the most vibrant topics go to a vote.
- Participatory Budgeting: Create a direct democratic process around spending (a part of) the government’s budget next year and guide the process in a transparent way.
- Collaborative Legislation: Empower citizens by collaboratively drafting legislation, project plans or any other texts that will affect their lives.
- Sustainable Development Goals: Make the Sustainable Development Goals central to the citizen participation process by using our special SDG feature.
- Multi-tenancy: Create two or more separate participation platforms for different institutions using one single installation with the multi-tenancy feature.
Description
Consul Democracy is a Free and Open-Source software for digital and hybrid participation. From 2016 onwards, governments and other public organizations from across the globe started using it, implementing one or several of its main features or customizing the software further, allowed under the Affero GPL version 3 license. Currently the CONSUL DEMOCRACY community consists of around 250 cities, regional governments, and regional and tech partners. The Consul-project was originally developed for the Madrid City Government, and now is maintained by the Consul Democracy Foundation and its community.