comparativa-decidim-consul_EN

	A	B	C	D	E
1	Comparison Table Decidim vs. Consul
2	Type of Function	Feature	Decidim	Consul

3	Participatory Spaces or Modes	Configurable participatory processes	yes	no
4		Direct initiatives or proposals	yes	yes
5		Collaborative legislation	yes, as a process	yes
6		Participatory budgets	yes, as a process	yes
7		Participatory organisations	yes	no
8		Digital consultations	yes	yes
9		Off-line voting	no	yes
10		Conferences	yes	no
11	Participatory Components or Mechanisms	Proposals	yes	yes
12		Discussions and debates	yes	yes
13		Meetings	yes	no
14		Results monitoring	yes	yes, only for budgets
15		Comments	yes	yes
16		Blogs	yes	no
17		Surveys	yes	yes
18		Sortitions	yes	no
19		Comments on texts	yes	yes
20		Newsletter	yes	yes
21		Search engine	yes	yes
22	Features related to Proposals	Rich text	no, to prevent spam	yes
23		Geolocation	yes	yes
24		Attach video	yes, for initiatives	yes
25		Attach image	yes	yes
26		Attach other documents	yes	yes
27		Follow proposal and receive notifications	yes	yes
28		Identification of related proposals	yes, during creation wizard	yes, public ones
29		Automatic notifications	yes	yes
30		Manual notifications	no	yes
31		Official response to proposals	yes	yes
32		Amendments to proposals	yes	no
33		Proposal filter by category	yes	yes
34		Category trends	no	yes
35		Verification of the integrity of proposals	yes	no
36		Different forms of viewing/browsing	no	yes
37		Collaborative drafts for proposals	yes	no
38		Proposal community	no	yes
39	Features related to Meetings	Meeting page	yes	no
40		Registration and access code generation	yes	no
41		Meeting minutes page	yes	no
42		Announcement of special services for the meeting	yes	no
43		Meetings map	yes	no
44	Features related to Participants	Internal direct messages between users	yes	yes
45		Officialized users (with badge)	yes	yes
46		User verification with citizen census	yes	yes
47		User verification with SMS	yes	yes
48		Gamification	yes	no
49		Activity stream for participants	yes	yes
50		Mentions for participants	yes	yes
51		Meets privacy standards and GDPR	yes	yes
52	Other Features	Differentiated administration roles	yes	yes
53		Integration with Citizens Advice Bureau (OAC)	poor	yes
54		Version control for proposals and results	yes	no
55		Electronic voting gateway	yes	yes
56		Browsing of proposals by (hash)tags	yes	yes
57		Notifications for proposal followers	yes	yes
58		Blogging or mircoblogging by users	no	no
59		Follow contents and people and receive notifications	yes	only for proposals
60		Admin documents	yes	yes
61		Integration with social networks	yes	yes
62	Architecture	Programming language	Ruby	Ruby
63		Free and open source software	yes	yes
64		Modular (with RoR engines)	yes	no
65		Multitenant	yes	no
66		Mobile app	no	no
67		Defined public roadmap	yes	yes
68	Community	Community space	yes	yes
69		Community space with own software	yes	no
70		Regular community meetings	yes, annual and monthly	yes, annual
71		Physical reference space	yes	yes
72		Democratic governance of the project	yes	no
73		Social contract	yes	no
74		Democratic Innovation Laboratory	yes	yes
75	Scope	Number of active installations	46	55	List shown on the website - those without real link to existing site were counted
76		Number of languages available	18	28	Excluding repeated languages or variants
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