USER GUIDE

The Road-STEAMer Community of Practice Suite (RCS) is a web-based open-source set of tools to support on-line interaction, dialogue, collaboration, and participation among RoadSTEAMer Community members, offering a virtual environment where issues, needs and ideas can be explored and discussed through co-creation-driven-approach.

The main tool composing the RCS is Decidim [http://decidim.org], from the Catalan "let’s decide" or “we decide”, a digital platform for participatory democracy. More specifically, Decidim allows anybody to create and configure a website to be used for democratic participation. It is built entirely and collaboratively as free software.

The platform allows any organization (local city council, association, university, NGO, neighbourhood or cooperative) to create mass processes for strategic planning, participatory budgeting, public consultation, collaborative design, etc. It also makes possible to connect traditional in-person democratic meetings with the digital world: sending meeting invites, managing registrations, facilitating the publication of minutes, etc. In addition, Decidim enables the structuring of government bodies or assemblies (councils, boards, working groups), the convening of consultations, referendums or channelling citizen or member initiatives to trigger different decision-making processes. Yet, the Decidim project is much more than that.