publiccodeYmlVersion: "0.4"

name: Consul Democracy
url: "https://github.com/consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy.git"
softwareVersion: "2.4.1"
releaseDate: "2025-11-17"
logo: "https://github.com/consuldemocracy/consuldemocracy/blob/master/public/consul_logo.svg"

platforms:
  - web

categories:
  - budgeting
  - collaboration
  - communications
  - content-management
  - digital-citizenship
  - online-community
  - project-collaboration
  - regulations-and-directives
  - survey
  - web-collaboration

developmentStatus: stable

softwareType: "standalone/web"

description:
  en:
    shortDescription: >
       Complete citizen participation tool platform made in Ruby on Rails
       for an open, transparent and democratic government.

    longDescription: >
      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.

    documentation: "https://docs.consuldemocracy.org/index/"

    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."
    awards:
      - 2025 Top rated participation platform (91/100) by People Powered
      - 2024 Recognized as a Digital Public Good by the Digital Public Good Alliance
      - 2020 Collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) module
      - 2019 European Commission Sharing & Reuse Award in the category "Open source software with the biggest impact on businesses and citizens"
      - 2019 Fukuoka Ruby Award
      - 2018 United Nations Public Service Award

legal:
  license: AGPL-3.0-or-later
  repoOwner: Consul Democracy Foundation

maintenance:
  type: "internal"

  contacts:
    - name: Lucía Luzuriaga
    - name: Javier Martín
    - name: Sebastià Roig

localisation:
  localisationReady: true
  availableLanguages:
    - ar
    - bg
    - bs
    - ca
    - cs
    - da
    - de
    - el
    - en
    - es
    - es-PE
    - eu
    - fa
    - fr
    - gd
    - gl
    - he
    - hr
    - id
    - it
    - ka
    - ne
    - nl
    - oc
    - pl
    - pt
    - pt-BR
    - ro
    - ru
    - sl
    - sq
    - so
    - sr
    - sv
    - tr
    - uk
    - ca-ES-valencia
    - zh-CN
    - zh-TW

dependsOn:
  open:
    - name: Ruby
      version: "3.3.10"
    - name: Rails
      version: "7.1.6"
    - name: Node.js
      version: "20.19.5"
    - name: PostgreSQL
      versionMin: "13"
    - name: ImageMagick