Spotlight: Connecting online action to real-world results in Spain
/Spotlight: Connecting online action to real-world results in Spain
Decide Madrid, built on the CONSUL platform, gave city residents the power to draft and vote on legislative proposals. Citizen proposals that attracted at least 26,000 online votes (or 1% of Madrid's registered voters) went to a binding public poll. Residents could vote on the proposal by mail, at a physical polling station, or online. If the majority of voters approved, the proposal went to the city council to make it law. In this way, Decide Madrid connected people's participation to very real power.
The Decide Madrid digital voting process was clearly connected to real-world results. Image from OpenDemocracy.
A resident votes in the Decide Madrid process, which won the UN Public Service Award in 2018.