democracy os france

Name

democracy os france

Legal name

DemocracyOS France

Website

https://democracyos.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Closed

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Open Source Civic Participation Software

NAICS

Political Organizations (813940)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Democracy, Voting Rights & Civic Participation Advocacy (BPAGAFAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Democratic Governance & Public Administration Reform (BPADAGAJ)

Keywords

• Open source governance
• Citizen participation platform
• Online consultation software
• Participatory democracy tools
• Civic engagement technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations: The association accepts donations from supporters. Donations enable innovation, exploration of new directions, territorial dissemination through event travel, organization of thematic meetings, and hosting student interns.
2. Association Membership: Membership fees from individuals joining the association to support the mission.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

DemocracyOS France develops and promotes DemocracyOS, a free, open-source web platform for transparent and collective online decision-making. The platform is organized around three modules — Proposez (propose topics for debate with supporting information), Débattez (deliberate with argument filtering and threaded responses), and Décidez (activate time-bound voting with clear deadlines). The non-profit association also deploys customized instances and provides methodological support to public institutions, associations, universities, and political movements in France.

Product overview

DemocracyOS France offers an open source civic participation platform ecosystem. The core product is the DemocracyOS platform, a web-based tool for transparent collective decision-making featuring three main modules: (1) Proposez for creating and publishing debate topics with supporting information, (2) Débattez for structured deliberation with argument filtering and participant responses, and (3) Décidez for time-bound voting and decision-making. Additionally, the HUB Associatif (Paris Association Hub) provides a variant tailored for Paris associations to manage internal governance and conduct consultations with citizens. The F0RK project represents another component within the broader ecosystem. The association transitioned its activities in 2020, migrating projects to the Decidim platform under Code For France.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Open Democracy Now: A collaborative project co-founded by DemocracyOS France with other civic-tech organizations to develop free and open-source solutions for democracy, organizing hackathons and bringing together about thirty initiatives around common values of openness, transparency, and collaboration.

Products and services

• DemocracyOS Platform Open-source web platform (JavaScript/Node.js with MongoDB, AGPL 3.0 license) for transparent and collective decision-making. Includes three core modules: Proposez (topic creation), Débattez (filtered deliberation), and Décidez (time-bound voting). Designed for governments, associations, universities, political movements, and any collective needing consultation.
• HUB Associatif (Paris Association Hub) Customized DemocracyOS instance serving as a consultation and governance platform for Paris-based associations. Enables internal association governance, citizen consultation, and collaborative inter-associative debates. Developed with Ville de Paris support.
• F0RK Component listed within the DemocracyOS France ecosystem navigation, representing an additional module or sub-product within the broader platform offering.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3.15 minutes average visit duration on Nanterre platform demonstrates sustained engagement.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Mairie de PariscoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2018Winner of Innovation Publique award from Paris. Development of a consultation and governance platform for Paris associations (HUB associatif) with support from the City of Paris.
• Open LawminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2017Collaboration on the ethical charter initiative for online participation. Hosted sprint final event at Open Law offices alongside DemocracyOS France.
• La MednumminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Cooperative of national collective interest being created by Agence du Numérique to federate public and private initiatives around digital inclusion. Some civic-tech actors have committed to this initiative.
• Open Source PoliticscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Partnership for curation and adaptation of the best free platforms dedicated to democracy. They experiment with a business model for common-tech civic-tech solutions.
• Regards CitoyensminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Partnership on Rapporteurs Citoyens project for collaborative analysis of citizen consultation contributions from the Assemblée Nationale.
• FaisTaLoi.orgminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Partnership in the committee for monitoring and evaluating the Assemblée Nationale consultation on gender equality law.
• g0v.tw and Open Culture Foundation (Taiwan)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016International collaboration with Taiwanese civic-tech community. Organized the Open Civil Society Night alongside OGP Summit 2016, bringing together open source civic-tech projects from around the world.
• Open LawminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Co-organized hackathons Open Democracy Now together with Open Law and other civic-tech organizations.
• OGP Toolbox / EtalabcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 January 2016DemocracyOS made available to French public administrations through the OGP Toolbox collection of tools initiated by Etalab. Agence du Numérique was the first administration to use a tool from OGP Toolbox for online consultation.
• Code For FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Co-founded collective promoting ideas and developing tools for free and open digital world. In 2020, DemocracyOS France announced fusion with Code For France, transferring projects to Decidim platform while maintaining DemocracyOS code availability.
• Open Democracy NowcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015Co-founded initiative bringing together about thirty civic-tech projects around common values: openness, transparency, collaboration. Organized regular hackathons and the Open Civil Society Night at OGP Summit 2016.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Decidim: Open-source participatory democracy platform initiated by Barcelona City Council — the direct successor codebase and ecosystem into which DemocracyOS France migrated in 2020, providing propose/debate/decide modules used by numerous European municipalities.
• Consul (Madrid): Open-source citizen participation platform developed for Madrid's Decide Madrid portal, offering proposals, debates, and voting — directly comparable in functionality and target customer (local government participatory processes).
• Open Source Politics: French civic-tech firm and core DemocracyOS partner that commercializes deployments of open-source democracy platforms for French public administrations — directly comparable in target market and product offerings.
• LiquidFeedback: Open-source internet voting and deliberation software used historically by Germany's Pirate Party and other movements — comparable in offering structured proposal/debate/vote workflows for collective decision-making.
• Loomio: Open-source collaborative decision-making tool used by associations, cooperatives, and citizen groups for proposals, discussion, and voting — directly comparable in target use case and core decision workflow.

Emerging players

• CitizenLab (now Go Vocal): SaaS civic participation platform for local governments offering ideas, consultations, participatory budgeting, and voting — competes for the same municipal budget line as DemocracyOS but with a paid commercial model.
• Pol.is: Open-source real-time deliberation platform using machine-learning-driven comment clustering — comparable in enabling structured large-scale opinion gathering for public consultation use cases.
• All Our Ideas: Open-source pairwise-voting deliberation tool incubated at Princeton — comparable in providing a lightweight, research-grade mechanism for collective input ranking that could supplement or compete with DemocracyOS voting.

Broad incumbents

• Code for America: Established U.S. nonprofit civic-tech organization building digital services for government — overlaps on the citizen-participation mission and government audience but operates broader than a single participatory platform.

Regional players

• g0v.tw (g0v civic-tech community): Taiwanese civic-tech community behind projects such as vTaiwan and e-petition tools — partnered with DemocracyOS on Open Civil Society Night; comparable open-source civic-participation approach but primarily serves Taiwan.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/DemocracyOS_FR
• GitHubgithub.com/democracy-os-fr/democracyos
• Facebookfacebook.com/DemocracyOSfrance
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/organization/11153483/admin/updates

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Valuation estimate

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Funding rounds

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