English Publications

Barandiaran, X., Calleja-López, A. & Monterde, A. (2018). Decidim: political and technopolitical networks for participatory democracy. Decidim’s project white paper. (You can download an alpha version of the document here)

Academic

Borge, R., Balcells, J. , Padró-Solanet, A. (2019) "A model for the analysis of online citizen deliberation: Barcelona case study", International Journal of Communication. 13, pp. 5671–5695. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/10805/2873

Media

Preville, P. (2019, November 13) How Barcelona is leading a new era of digital democracy https://medium.com/sidewalk-talk/how-barcelona-is-leading-a-new-era-of-digital-democracy-4a033a98cf32
Graham, T. (2018, May 18) - Barcelona is leading the fightback against smart city surveillance https://www.wired.co.uk/article/barcelona-decidim-ada-colau-francesca-bria-decode
Barandiaran, X. E., & iaran. (2018, April 24). What is Decidim? https://xabier.barandiaran.net/2018/04/24/what-is-decidim/

Abstract. Many people ask what is this project called “Decidim” to which I have devoted my last two year of work with complete dedication. I wanted to share a brief summary here. This text is the…
Stark, K. (2017, May 9). Barcelona’s Decidim Offers Open-Source Platform for Participatory Democracy Projects. https://www.shareable.net/blog/barcelonas-decidim-offers-open-source-platform-for-participatory-democracy-projects

Abstract. The word Decidim translated from Catalan means we decide, and it’s the name of Barcelona’s digital infrastructure for participatory democracy. One part functional database and one part political statement, organizers say Decidim is key to a broad digital transformation that is taking place in Barcelona — its institutions, markets, and economy.
Decidim: Free Open-Source participatory democracy for cities and organizations | Hacker News. (n.d.). Retrieved January 21, 2019, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952328
Oikos Denktank. (n.d.). (W)E-Democracy - speaker 5 (1) - E-democratic cities - Arnau Monterde and Xabier E. Barandiaran. Retrieved August 30, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQ8ij4Ekag