The JAM are the annual conference of Metadecidim, the Decidim community: a free open-source platform of participation for cities and organizations. The JAM were born by the end of 2016 from a participatory process at Decidim Barcelona a Decidim instance in the Barcelona City Council. During 2017 the participation process was transformed into its own community (Metadecidim) in order to set a space for thought, cooperation and public-common work on Decidim.

 

The JAM are an opportunity to gather with the community, the citizens and in general any person who is in the productive ecosystem of Decidim (institutions, companies and social organizations) to rethink in an open, transparent and collaborative way the future of Decidim so that every day is more useful for the participatory democracy of cities and organizations around the world.

 

We live in the world of social networks: likes, retweets and hashtags connect us socially... but the reality behind them is different. Social networks are also new private forms of economic profit and power supported by the study and control of collective attention and behavior. In this edition of #JAM18 we will present the alternative to social networks: political networks. Political networks such as Decidim do not conceive their users as consumers but as participants, as political actors who have a safe space to deliberate, take part or decide on the common affairs of their city or organization. In these spaces the participants can build collective intelligences, identities and wills that go beyond the individualistic logic of mere expression, grouping or circulation of personal tastes and preferences. With political networks like Decidim, the decision making affects all of its participants and overcome the interaction logic offered by these corporate social networks with the rest of the collective decision. This political networks are also consciously, because they recognize technology as politics and, to that extent, they are associated with networks and technopolitical communities, such as Metadecidim, which politicize and democratize its own infrastructure.

 

Internationalization of Decidim

Metadecidim Governance