The cost of participation — Amplifying democracy by bridging political participation, digital campaigning platforms, and civic crowdfunding. Crossing communities and technologies between Decidim and Goteo "The good reception of digital platforms for citizen participation launched by the municipalities of Barcelona and Madrid –Decidim and Decide madrid– have made evident the need to continue stimulating and accompanying the transition towards civic participation through online platforms. At the same time, only a very small number of citizen proposals currently go beyond the initial phases and become visible to other citizens. We need to create mechanisms so that these initiatives that seek a local impact reach the potentially interested people, and stimulate forms of direct citizen participation. We, at Platoniq lab are designing interventions in digital platforms that potentially stimulate direct democracy in the urban context, as is the case of civic crowdfunding platforms such as Goteo.org. The initiatives proposed in these citizen participation platforms currently have a very short life expectancy or lack visibility. We propose to increase the viability and strength of these proposals by creating a synergy between citizen participation platforms such as Decidim and the civic crowdfunding of Goteo.org and similar platforms I will present concrete ways of implementing this combined system of Crowdvocacy from systematic data analysis and also from the comparative analysis of civic crowdfunding cases, and sharing results and materials of these research activities, namely: 1) a technological analysis at the level of the design programming of a simplified fundraising campaign structure for citizens initiatives in Decidim and 2) the analysis of communities of the two platforms — Decidim and Goteo — to detect the convergences and connections at a sociodemographic level, geographical location, topic, and motivations. 3) a proposal for a Decidim feature aimed at measuring volunteers work impact. The purpose is not just to measure time spent by participants, but also observe the kind of labor that’s happening and needed to sustain a process.

1. DEMOCRACY ON WHEELS?
@sotomeior

2. PARTICIPATION
Nightmare!
NIGHTMARE

3. Amplifying democracy by bridging political participation, digital campaigning
platforms, and civic crowdfunding
CROWDVOCACY: THE COST OF PARTICIPATION
🏛🗳📈💵

5. CITIZENSPUBLIC
BODIESPolicymakers MAKERS
RESEARCHERS

6. WIDER PARTICIPATION

7. WILDER PARTICIPATION

8. bring post-its to the party!
Showcase DECIDIM THE GAME, an Analogical Game to facilitate the co-design of participatory processes in DECIDIM

10. We design open and
inclusive participatory
spaces across the
physical and the digital
to improve the impact of
civic initiatives

11. a través de
crowdfunding!
Our Legacy
Building impactful Open Source platforms

12. 27 Cities
5 regions
10 Private entities
Digital Democracy
Stimulating and sustaining direct democracy

13. Testing and validating effective means of
incentivising progressive engagement

15. Gamification
Progressive engagement and priming
100
SUPPORTS
1.000
SUPPORTS
3.000
APOYOS
5.000
SUPPORTS
10.000
SUPPORTS
27.000
SUPPORTS

17. Decide Corner
Cesión de espacio
del Ayuntamiento
y tu kit para recoger firmas

19. Barcelona City Council
&Opensource citizen’s
participation platform
Citizens
proposals
The City Council
adopt & fund the project
Citizens funding their
proposal on Goteo
Matchfunding
Success!
Crowdvocacy a Goteo + Decidim, Innovació democràtica
Civic crowdfunding is
a powerful instrument
for public
participation and
policy innovation, with
many initiatives
crossing boundaries
between activism,
advocacy, social
entrepreneurship and
social innovation

20. Beneficiaries of the Goteo platform
Street vendors
Union / Coop member Individual
promoter
COOP member
(Social)
Entrepreneur
Third sector
Organized(+)
Moved
by activism
Get funds
is a “speech-act”
Individual
Organized (o not)
Driven
by her project
Get funds
is a need
SocEnt
Organized(+)
Motivated
by the “Milestone”
Get funds
is a “wager”
Professional
± Organized
Focused
in advancing
Get funds
is a milestone

21. Matchfunders: Impact Multipliers
Europeana Foundation The Gipuzkoa
Provincial Council
Matcher Toshiba
European Institution
Transversal(+)
Participatory
culture is crucial
Reinforce project
funds is
a milestone
Regional Gov.
Structured
Moved by
citizen participation
Funding is part
of their mission/vision
Foundation
Private Entity
Moved by
their mission
in Education
Funding is a
“community
strengthener”
Brand oriented
Organized
Focus on their
corporate social
responsibility
Funding is
a “media”

22. Whereas petition platforms and civic crowdfunding have
different purposes, histories etc – they are playing different
games, confront different challenges, but seen more widely
they contribute to a shared culture”

23. AWARNESS
ENGAGEMENT
EMPOWERMENT
CROWDVOCACY
CITIZENS
INFLUENCE IN
PUBLIC LIFE
CITIZENS
INVOLVEMENTCROWDVOCACY

24. Sindicat de Llogaters i Llogateres is a resident led organization that ran a crowdvocacy campaign on Goteo
to raise funds to form a tenant union to protect their right to housing and fair rents in Barcelona.

25. https://en.goteo.org/project/sindicat-de-llogaters-i-llogateres

26. https://beteve.cat/politica/comissio-urbanisme-reserva
The measure that is expected to
allocate 30% of sheltered housing in
new developments and large
rehabilitations has passed the first
process in the Urban Planning
commission in 2018

27. The Gymnasium in Sant Pau is so much more than just a building.
Located in Raval, Barcelona it represents years of struggle to create
and maintain a full and diverse community in the face the pressure
to gentrify within the popular tourist destination

29. In 2018 the citizen cooperative
from the Sant Pau community
dreamed bigger and launched an
initiative on Decidim. Their
initiative proposed reclaiming the
surrounding block and building
50 public and inclusive housing
units.

33. Social
commitment
as a
premise!

34. Fundación Goteo > SDG’s

36. https://labs.platoniq.net/#/decidim/initiatives/8/map/salvem-el-sant-pau

45. Organizing, Promoting and Enabling Heritage
Re-use through Inclusion, Technology, Access,
Governance and Empowerment
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 776766

50. At Hof Prädikow modern working meets rural living. Digital work culture and diverse social exchange are to go hand in hand here
with proximity to nature and handicraft work.

51. Measure volunteers work impact.
DESIGN YOUR
PARTICIPATORY
PROCESS
VOLUNTEERS IMPACT
A proposal for a Decidim feature aimed at measuring volunteers work impact. The purpose is not just to measure
time spent by participants, but also observe the kind of labor that’s happening and needed to sustain a process.

57. The Municipality of Barcelona has approved the leasehold for 50 years of 13,000 square meters
of the Can Battló historic factory site to the citizen led organization from the Sants neighborhood

58. During 2017, 48,000 people passed through here, participating in 849
activities that involved 82,185 hours of volunteer work.
For every euro that the city invests in Can Batlló it receives five.
82,185 hours of volunteer work

60. navigate through participatory processes using maps and blueprints of a site or building
BLUEPRINT NAVIGATOR
KEY MAP BLOCK ”A” BLOCK ”B” BLOCK ”C”
Block “A”
We want to overcome the
infrastructural limita ons of
rural life with the help of
digital and social solu ons
[...]
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61. olivierschulbaum@platoniq.net
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