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decidio — Digital citizen participation

Sessions overview

How committees and sessions are created and managed in decidio.

Overview

Citizen submissions are not decided in a vacuum — they travel through committees such as council subcommittees, the council itself or advisory boards. decidio models these committees and their sessions so every submission has a clear path from triage to decision.

How it works

A municipality creates the committees that are relevant for it in the administration view — for example a main committee, a building committee or the council. Each committee can have sessions with a date and a status attached to it.

A session moves through three states: "in preparation", "scheduled" and "decided". The state changes are the anchors of the public history for the attached submissions: as soon as a session is decided, the attached requests adopt the corresponding result on their status page.

Which people may moderate or decide on which committees is configured through the role management. More on that in Settings and team.

Common tasks

Create a committee

  1. Open the committees area in the settings.
  2. Create a new committee and give it a clear name.
  3. Assign the responsible roles and save.

Schedule a session

  1. Create a new session inside the committee.
  2. Capture the date and preparation notes.
  3. Set the state to "scheduled" as soon as the date is confirmed.

Close a session

After the session set the state to "decided". The attached requests adopt the result on their public status history automatically.

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