Tracing common topics
in proposals for
.
Open data from (2016-2024)
In 2016, the city of Barcelona launched an open participatory platform, decidim.barcelona, to gather ideas and proposals from citizens, and decide upon their implementations.
Citizens responded immediately, and during its first year, it housed numerous acitivites, discussions and definitions, led by citizens, such as the Municipal Action Programme (PAM), which served as guidelines for shaping and taking care of the city the following years.
As people came together, both in the online platform and the offline activities it fostered, citizens ideas about their shared experience of the city were documented in Decidim proposals and comments.
After 8 years of collaboration and collective intelligence deposited on decidim.barcelona across hundreds of participatory processes, here are some of the most recurring topics that can be identified, using topic modelling techniques assited by machine learning and Catalan fine-tuned open language models.
The 20 most recurring topics in decidim.barcelona:
These colored clusters are composed by thousands of ideas written by citizens, grouped into similar topics by position and color.
From the total 31,775 proposals published in the decidim.barcelona platform, these where the top 20 topics which were most clearly identifiable and recurrent from their description texts:
From 2016 to 2024, this is how citizens' interests in these topics changed over time, as expressed by their presence in proposal descriptions:
Most supported proposals each year and their topics: