Citizen Consultation & Engagement

Swae for Citizen Engagement

Smarter cities through the voice of your citizens

Citizens want a voice in decision making and transparency in how decisions are made. Swae helps innovative public leaders listen to these needs so they can reap the rewards of good ideas.

Did you know over 51% of citizens are dissatisfied with how democracy is working?

Engaging your citizens
is more important than ever 

Smart leaders who actively hear ideas and opinions from their constituents experience:

2x

improvement in levels of institutional trust. 

.

40%

more citizen participation in democratic processes. 

19%

improvement in tax contributions and tax compliance. 

How cities connect with their citizens with Swae

Digital Public Consultations

Digital Public Policy Creation

Digital Community Programming

Swae works

Invest in Swae for Citizen Engagement.

Wisdom within your jurisdiction

%

…say Swae helped them convey ideas better that other collaboration platforms they’d used or have access to

Tackle disengaged citizens

%

…report Swae increased their engagement, motivation and happiness by helping them have a meaningful voice in decisions

Stay competitive & avoid disruption

%

…believe Swae surfaced ideas that would not have otherwise surfaced [using other tools or processes]

Easy community collaboration

%

…say Swae made collaboration easier, and sharing ideas more accessible in their whole community

Stay productive and aligned with your city, even when they’re not in the same room

Power public consultation in a whole new way, by leveraging the wisdom of crowds to digitally transform your municipality. 

Synthesize research

Align your constituency around the big picture

Review objectives

Evaluate opportunities faster

Strategize on what to invest budget into next

Reshape citizens expectations by transforming how they participate in complex decisions that affect them and their communities.

Avoid creating policies and decisions in a vacuum

Quickly get and share important information

Evaluate and align, fast

Keep pace with the digital evolution of society

Swae is your trusted and secure choice for engaging your citizens

Engage productive citizen involvement with a fully digital solution for smart listening for ground breaking ideation, all while being protected by enterprise-grade security. 

Demonstrate accountability
Tackle disengagement
Embrace a transparent digital solution
Foster Trust

Set the Mission, get decision-ready solutions

Set your citizens to task on your biggest (and smallest) challenges, and you’ll be amazed by the ideation and innovation within your municipality.

Swae delivers direct impact to your city

$1M+

avg. value of innovation ideas revealed over 12 months.

70%+

increase in engagement of your constituency*.

$1M

direct cost saving ideas have been generated.

3 month

payback period.

25-50%

improvement in time saved by administrators managing idea generation program

50%

improvement in sourcing investable decisions*.

Results based on aggregated findings and impacts reports from client implementations.
*Over and above other engagement tools & approaches used.

Real examples of our partners bringing civic participation to life

Swae Partners with the Igarapé Institute and the UN launching a global digital consultation to strengthen international cooperation.

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“Swae is a critical platform to take these kinds of debates to the next level. Swae will not just help develop new ideas, it will also ensure a high degree of diversity and inclusion in the consultation itself.”

Robert Muggah

Founder, Igarape Institute

“Swae offers the possibility of bringing together representatives at different geographic locations. Moreover, Swae helps by supporting the collective, transparent, and anonymous discussion of CCL-related ideas among all representatives.”

Dr. Iván S. Razo-Zapata

COCOA Collaborative Innovation BV

Swae’s platform was used by Adapt Chile in a digital consultation engaging the Chilean Network of Municipalities on 6 new pillars of Chilean Climate Change Law.

Explore more ways to use Swae

REMOTE WORKING & COLLABORATION

INNOVATION & IDEA MANAGEMENT

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Say hello to smart decision making. 

Learn how Swae can support your organization.

Is Swae

for you?

C-Suite

Swae for:

Inclusive C-Suite Professionals

Swae has the solutions to your pain points

Do you have a real time pulse on your organization’s health?

Get insightful reports to improve culture and performance, identify unproductive silo’s and measure your organization’s health!

Are you frustrated trying to align your organization to find common ground?

Swae increases buy-in on core initiatives and uplifts employee morale and retention by >10x in just 30 days!

Do you struggle with innovation or fixing broken areas of your organization?

Swae brings decision-ready solutions and can build $1+ million in innovation Pipeline in weeks not years!

 

C-Suite Leaders

Meet Miriam

COO of a multi-national organization


In leading her organization, she is tasked with spearheading traditional reporting, KPIs, financial planning and driving overall operations.

She needs have her finger on the pulse of her employees, market opportunity, all while having the ability to influence, collaborate and communicate effectively across her diverse workforce, leadership team, and customers.

We know bringing people and groups together to find common ground, is the ingredient for success in this extremely important role.

 

Swae provides Miriam with the platform to deepen the connective tissue between her people, and find hidden ways to drive revenue with more efficient operational systems to support growth.

So Miriam can stay more calm and act with deliberation when the pressure mounts, while bringing ideas and winning solutions to the table on decisions that matter most. 

Swae for C-Suite Leaders

Accelerate the impact your people bring to decision-making with Swae

Leaders like you are tired of the pace within and lack of results. Swae is the only platform combining Anonymity, AI and your current wisdom within to supercharge your ideation and decision making process.

Give your organization winning solutions to your most pressing challenges

Find your competitive advantage

Easily uncover hidden problems and solutions your employees and customers face, so you can resolve them fast.

Reveal new revenue opportunities

Uncover your next stream of revenue with decision-ready solutions for innovating your products and services, directly from the knowledge within. 

Uplevel team collaboration
All of your ideas in one digital ecosystem unites and aligns your full team, and saves hundreds of man-hours on innovation program administration. 
Deepen engagement for growth

Gain more trust through open, authentic idea sharing, creating deeper engagement amongst your teams & people.

Create a Mission

Address the things that matter most to your business

Get Proposals

Your team and Swae’s AI collaborate to refine their ideas

Vote & Decide

Popular ideas rise to the top, so you can action the best of the best

Set the Mission, get decision-ready solutions

Set your employees to task on your biggest (and smallest) challenges, and you’ll be amazed by the ideation and innovation within your workforce.

C-Suite leaders worldwide trust Swae

 

What Swae users say about us

Swae delivers the

brightest ideasand solutions

for tomorrow

$1M+

avg. value of innovation ideas revealed over 12 months.

70%+

increase in engagement of your your employees*.

$1M

direct cost saving ideas have been generated.

3mos

time saved by administrators managing idea generation program.

50%

time saved by administrators managing idea generation program.

50%

improvement in sourcing investable decisions*.

Results based on aggregated findings and impacts reports from client implementations.
*Over and above other engagement tools & approaches used.

See what our partners all over the world have to say about Swae

Etihad-CEO

There is an abundance of great ideas right here in our organisation and no one knows our business better than our employees, so we partnered with Swae to give our employees the platform they need to innovate.

Tony Douglas

CEO, Etihad Airways

MSF

By using Swae, the quality of our motions improved dramatically before they were presented to be voted on. This lead to a larger number getting passed, creating more impact for the organization.

anne connely

Anne Connely

Board Member, MSF

Lifelabs

Swae is a tool I have been hoping to see developed for many years. It dispels many of the implicit and explicit biases often seen in brainstorming exercises.

Jamie Lepard

Lifelabs
Business Continuity Program Manager

Ciudad Juarez

Swae helped the Government increase public engagement and crowdsource relevant policy ideas efficiently to improve job opportunities and generate a positive impact in the community.

Lisbeily Domínguez Ruvalcaba,

General Director of the Institute for Innovation and Competitiveness of the Chihuahua State Government

COCOA

With Swae’s support we were able to pilot a new approach for climate governance in Chile.

Cristián Retamal

CEO, COCOA

Etihad

There are bright ideas waiting to be uncovered amongst our employees, and importantly, that they will share and engage, if provided with the right platform to do so.

Kai ling Ting

Strategy & Innovation, Digital and Innovation

Identity North

As a former corporate warrior, I would have loved to have had this tool when I was trying to run ideation within a large corporation! Swae is an amazing resource of our community’s thoughts and ideas.

Krista Pawley

Founder & Executive Producer

Bosch

It had a clear signal to the community, this is what we need, we want to have decisions that involve the perspectives of the community.

Darius Polak

Bosch Managing Director,
International Alumni Centre

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INNOVATION & IDEA MANAGEMENT

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

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Inclusive Innovation Leader

Swae for:

Inclusive Innovation Leaders

Swae has the solutions to your pain points

Frustrated with the pace of change within your organization?

Unleash the full ingenuity, initiative, and passion of every single person in organization for big results.

Is advancement of technology disrupting your company?

Innovate and create better ideas faster to keep ahead of your competition.

Struggling to source high quality, decision-ready ideas from your people?

Save money and reduce coordinating time by 500% with Swae’s all in one decision making platform.

Meet Nadia

VP Innovation


Nadia is laser focused on finding new ways to solve her organizations daily challenges. She knows she’s got incredible talent within, but hasn’t found a way for efficient team collaboration so she can extract those ideas in an easy way.

Nadia empowers her people to build an inclusive culture so her company can find proactive solutions to tackle disruption head on.

Swae provides Nadia a platform that helps her find decision ready solutions while hearing all voices within of her organization.

Working in a fast paced environment means everyone can quickly collaborate  on ideas, strengthen them and weigh in to decide on which ones are the best, revealing hidden game-changing opportunities. 

Nadia now has the time to focus on what she does best; making fast decisions confidently, and keeping the organization at the top of their innovation game.

Swae for INNOVATION LEADERS

Double your innovation input with Swae

Leaders like you are tired of the pace within and lack of results. Swae is the only platform combining Anonymity, AI and your current wisdom within to supercharge your ideation and decision making process.

Reveal hidden blind spots for faster innovation

Find your competitive advantage

Easily uncover hidden problems & receive more ideas from all voices within your organization, fast.

Reveal new revenue opportunities

Fast track growth by creating more streams of revenue and find solutions to streamline product and/or service costs. 

Collect decision ready solutions

Swae provides well vetted solutions for you to tackle your greatest challenges of today and tomorrow.

Deepen engagement with an inclusive, trusted platform

Instantly create an inclusive environment that unites all levels of your diverse organization to ideate and build on game changing solutions. 

Create a Mission

Address the things that matter most to your business

Get Proposals

Your team and Swae’s AI collaborate to refine their ideas

Vote & Decide

Popular ideas rise to the top, so you can action the best of the best

Set the Mission, get decision-ready solutions

Set your employees to task on your biggest (and smallest) challenges, and you’ll be amazed by the ideation and innovation within your workforce.

Inclusive Innovation Leaders worldwide trust Swae

 

What Swae users say about us

Swae delivers the

brightest ideasand solutions

for tomorrow

$1M+

avg. value of innovation ideas revealed over 12 months.

70%+

increase in engagement of your your employees*.

$1M

direct cost saving ideas have been generated.

3mos

time saved by administrators managing idea generation program.

50%

time saved by administrators managing idea generation program.

50%

improvement in sourcing investable decisions*.

Results based on aggregated findings and impacts reports from client implementations.
*Over and above other engagement tools & approaches used.

See what our partners all over the world have to say about Swae

Etihad-CEO

There is an abundance of great ideas right here in our organisation and no one knows our business better than our employees, so we partnered with Swae to give our employees the platform they need to innovate.

Tony Douglas

CEO, Etihad Airways

MSF

By using Swae, the quality of our motions improved dramatically before they were presented to be voted on. This lead to a larger number getting passed, creating more impact for the organization.

anne connely

Anne Connely

Board Member, MSF

Lifelabs

Swae is a tool I have been hoping to see developed for many years. It dispels many of the implicit and explicit biases often seen in brainstorming exercises.

Jamie Lepard

Lifelabs
Business Continuity Program Manager

Ciudad Juarez

Swae helped the Government increase public engagement and crowdsource relevant policy ideas efficiently to improve job opportunities and generate a positive impact in the community.

Lisbeily Domínguez Ruvalcaba,

General Director of the Institute for Innovation and Competitiveness of the Chihuahua State Government

COCOA

With Swae’s support we were able to pilot a new approach for climate governance in Chile.

Cristián Retamal

CEO, COCOA

Etihad

There are bright ideas waiting to be uncovered amongst our employees, and importantly, that they will share and engage, if provided with the right platform to do so.

Kai ling Ting

Strategy & Innovation, Digital and Innovation

Identity North

As a former corporate warrior, I would have loved to have had this tool when I was trying to run ideation within a large corporation! Swae is an amazing resource of our community’s thoughts and ideas.

Krista Pawley

Founder & Executive Producer

Bosch

It had a clear signal to the community, this is what we need, we want to have decisions that involve the perspectives of the community.

Darius Polak

Bosch Managing Director,
International Alumni Centre

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INNOVATION & IDEA MANAGEMENT

DEBIASING DECISION MAKING

SMARTER REMOTE MEETINGS

CUSTOMER
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We know you’re laser focused on everything innovation.  

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Boosting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Swae for Boosting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 

An inclusive, safe space for all voices to be heard

Science has proven that diverse teams outperform homogeneous ones. Swae creates a welcoming, anonymized space for problem and solution generation inside any organization

Did you know inclusive and diverse teams make better decisions up to 87% of the time, having huge impacts within organizations by helping mitigate the amount of cognitive bias in important decisions?

Enabling diversity in your workforce
is more important than ever 

Increasing gender, ethnic & cognitive diversity in your ranks and decision-making processes leads to business success

87%

better quality decision-making. Diverse teams outperform homogeneous ones, and diversity of input leads to better ideas to select from, & better decisions made.

70%

of companies in the top ranks of diversity are 70% more likely to capture new markets (in 12 months), when compared to non-diverse companies.

 

19%

higher revenues. Companies with high diversity scores outperform those with low diversity scores, proving diversity of input positively impacts financial performance.

35%

higher financial returns. Companies in the top quartile of ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean. 

How organizations benefit from increased diversity with Swae

Strategic Planning

Employee Feedback

Innovation Challenges

Swae works

Invest in Swae for inclusion, equity and diversity

Wisdom within your workforce

%

…say Swae helped them convey ideas better that other collaboration platforms they’d used or have access to

Tackle costly disengagement

%

…report Swae increased their engagement, motivation and happiness by helping them have a meaningful voice in decisions

Stay competitive & avoid disruption

%

…believe Swae surfaced ideas that would not have otherwise surfaced [using other tools or processes]

Easy collaboration for diverse teams

%

…say Swae made collaboration easier, and sharing ideas more accessible in their whole community

Tap into the top 4 habits of inclusive leaders

Practice participative leadership

Garner wisdom from within and allow managers and employee contribute to decisions that matter.

Create a “speak up” culture

Celebrate different views and allow employees to share their perspectives without fear of retributions.

Tackle disruption head on

Proactively embrace change to find new ways to innovate their products and services.

Encourage inclusion & diversity

Visibly demonstrate Senior Management support for diversity of people and knowledge within workforce.

Give your employees a meaningful voice

and reap the rewards

Swae’s engages and unites your diverse workforce through it’s unbiased, bottom-up decision-making process:

3x

more engaged in their work.

3x

more likely to share market ready ideas with colleagues and managers.

2.6x

more likely to remain in their role for over 1 year.

2x

less likely to be absent, than employees who are disengaged.

66%

more productive than employees who are disengaged.

Bring out the diversity from within for decision ready solutions from the bottom up

Swae includes all voices in the ideation and decision-making process and enables diversity to power solutions to your organizations most pressing problems. The trust garnered through this process means employees invest more than expected, feeding natural occurring innovation as they unleash their creativity and ideas freely.

Boost productivity and performance

Utilize open collaboration to  provide better, more diverse alternatives to select from

Reap rewards of sourcing well-vetted investable solutions

Improve ideas and generate better quality solutions, by reducing bias

A safe place
for novel ideas to shine

Diversity brings experiences that can feel uncomfortable to share. Swae’s purpose built features creates an environment for everyone to feel welcome, valued and supported.

Unleash powerful hidden voices

Provide psychological safety through anonymity

Remove barriers so you can hear the truth

Enable your team with the right tools

Swae is a trusted and secure choice for engaging your diverse workforce

Engage productive inclusion and diversity with a fully digital solution for smart listening for ground breaking ideation, all while being protected by enterprise-grade security. 

Demonstrate accountability
Tackle disengagement
Embrace a transparent digital solution
Foster Trust

Set the Mission, get decision-ready solutions

Set your employees to task on your biggest (and smallest) challenges, and you’ll be amazed by the ideation and innovation within your workforce.

Swae delivers direct impact

$1M+

avg. value of innovation ideas revealed over 12 months.

70%+

increase in engagement of your employees*.

$1M

direct cost saving ideas have been generated.

3 month

payback period.

25-50%

improvement in time saved by administrators managing idea generation program.

50%

improvement in sourcing investable decisions*.

Results based on aggregated findings and impacts reports from client implementations.
*Over and above other engagement tools & approaches used.

One platform, unlimited uses

REMOTE WORKING & COLLABORATION

INNOVATION & IDEA MANAGEMENT

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

CUSTOMER
CROWDSOURCING

Say hello to smart decision making. 

Learn how Swae can support your organization.

Is Swae

for you?

Inclusive People Leader

Swae for:

Inclusive People Leaders

Swae has the solutions to your pain points

Feeling disconnected from your employees due to low engagement and morale?

Find out what employees really think and increase engagement by 50% in just 30 days.

Want to find solutions to your biggest challenges?

Tap into your the diversity of you employees knowledge for well-vetted decision ready ideas.

Struggling to connect your global team on important decisions?

Eliminate barriers with contactless ideation to deliver successful initiatives no matter where you live.

Meet Chantelle

VP, People & Culture


Chantelle knows the most important asset to a company is its people. As a leader tasked with finding acceleration tools to support a healthy culture and employee base, Chantelle needs to continuously focus on inspiring inclusivity and personal wellbeing.

From wellness program development to understanding hidden opportunities, Swae provides the platform to easily tap into the hidden problems Chantelle’s people are facing.

Her team is engaged, and empowered to seamlessly weigh in on the ideas and initiatives that matter most.

So Chantelle can prioritize her efforts and have time to focus on what she does best– helping her people have a better quality of life.

Swae for Inclusive People Leaders

Driving healthy, happy, innovation-focused organizations

Become an inclusive organization that celebrates diversity while driving employee engagement, performance and powerful innovation with Swae’s all-in-one ideation and decision-making platform. 

Find the hidden drivers of employee engagement and reveal hidden blind spots 

Cultivate team synergy & belonging

Create deep engagement and align everyone around your mission, fostering a culture of true belonging, diversity innovation and growth.

Create buy in through a healthier culture

Uncover hidden problems your people are facing, by providing our trusted and transparent idea sharing platform creating deep connections amongst your teams & people.

Extract genius ideas within your team

Provide an all-in-one solution for your team to share ideas and build on game changing solutions for your business, together. 

Eliminate wasted time and save money

Swae’s all-in-one idea management and decision making platform means you’ll receive well-written, flushed-out ideas (no more pointless surveys!). We take on your admin, in an efficeint digital way, so you can spend your time where it matters most.

Create a Mission

Address the things that matter most to your business

Get Proposals

Your team and Swae’s AI collaborate to refine their ideas

Vote & Decide

Popular ideas rise to the top, so you can action the best of the best

Set the Mission, get great solutions

Set your employees to task on your biggest (and smallest) Missions, and you’ll be amazed by the ideation and innovation within your workforce.

Inclusive People Leaders worldwide trust Swae

 

What Swae users say about us

Swae delivers the

brightest ideasand solutions

for tomorrow

$1M+

avg. value of innovation ideas revealed over 12 months.

70%+

increase in engagement of your your employees*.

$1M

direct cost saving ideas have been generated.

3mos

time saved by administrators managing idea generation program.

50%

time saved by administrators managing idea generation program.

50%

improvement in sourcing investable decisions*.

Results based on aggregated findings and impacts reports from client implementations.
*Over and above other engagement tools & approaches used.

See what our partners all over the world have to say about Swae

Etihad-CEO

There is an abundance of great ideas right here in our organisation and no one knows our business better than our employees, so we partnered with Swae to give our employees the platform they need to innovate.

Tony Douglas

CEO, Etihad Airways

MSF

By using Swae, the quality of our motions improved dramatically before they were presented to be voted on. This lead to a larger number getting passed, creating more impact for the organization.

anne connely

Anne Connely

Board Member, MSF

Lifelabs

Swae is a tool I have been hoping to see developed for many years. It dispels many of the implicit and explicit biases often seen in brainstorming exercises.

Jamie Lepard

Lifelabs
Business Continuity Program Manager

Ciudad Juarez

Swae helped the Government increase public engagement and crowdsource relevant policy ideas efficiently to improve job opportunities and generate a positive impact in the community.

Lisbeily Domínguez Ruvalcaba,

General Director of the Institute for Innovation and Competitiveness of the Chihuahua State Government

COCOA

With Swae’s support we were able to pilot a new approach for climate governance in Chile.

Cristián Retamal

CEO, COCOA

Etihad

There are bright ideas waiting to be uncovered amongst our employees, and importantly, that they will share and engage, if provided with the right platform to do so.

Kai ling Ting

Strategy & Innovation, Digital and Innovation

Identity North

As a former corporate warrior, I would have loved to have had this tool when I was trying to run ideation within a large corporation! Swae is an amazing resource of our community’s thoughts and ideas.

Krista Pawley

Founder & Executive Producer

Bosch

It had a clear signal to the community, this is what we need, we want to have decisions that involve the perspectives of the community.

Darius Polak

Bosch Managing Director,
International Alumni Centre

previous arrow
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One platform, unlimited uses

REMOTE WORKING & COLLABORATION

INNOVATION & IDEA MANAGEMENT

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Tell your decision-makers about Swae

We know you’re laser focused on your people, driving initiatives to make your work environment and the culture the best it can be. 

Sign up to receive a shareable email on how Swae can bring decision-ready solutions to your most pressing challenges today. 

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