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

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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?

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

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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?

Remote Meetings

Swae for Remote Meetings & AGMs

Digital-first decision-making for remote meetings

Whether it be distributed team members within your organization, a city wide consultation or a global AGM, Swae keeps participants connected while they make decisions apart. Ideate, generate solutions, vote on pressing issues, and collaborate all in one place.

How organizations host remote meetings with Swae

Digital Annual General Assembly

Digital Town Halls

Digital BOARD MEETINGS

Digital PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS

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Invest in Swae for remote meetings

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 remote teams

%

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

A seamless, transformative experience for participants

People across the globe are moving to remote work. From agenda setting to collecting proposals, gather and share ideas and align around the big picture with Swae. 

Automate brainstoorming and ratifying decisions

Increase participant engagement

Evaluate opportunities faster

Leverage efficient digital technology to align around strategic goals

Automate brainstorming and ratifying decisions
From agenda setting to collecting proposals, gather and share ideas and align around the big picture.

Increase participant engagement
Leveraging digital technology.

Evaluate opportunities faster
Present possible solutions, weigh trade-offs and ask for feedback in real time

Uniting global participants under one virtual roof

2020 brought many challenges, and travel restrictions left organizations scrambling to find new ways of engaging their stakeholders within important annual meetings.  Swae helps you leverage its digital platform to involve all your people through every step of the decision-making process.

Guide your organization to drive clear directives
Provide participants with secure electronic voting they trust
 Track impact and maintain a pulse on ideas collected and decisions made, in real time

Save time and money on unnecessary travel

Swae is your trusted and secure choice for remote meetings

Engage in remote meetings 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.

Real examples of our Partners bringing remote meetings to life

“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.

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?

Debiasing Decision Making

Swae for Debiasing Decision Making

Removing cognitive bias for smart decision-making

Swae helps debias the complete ideation and decision-making journey so you can access the best thinking, insights and solutions to complex decisions.

Did you know personal judgements manifest in operations and organizational thinking, causing employees and leaders to make decisions in sub-optimal ways?

Debiasing your decision-making
is more important than ever 

Remove bias in your decision-making by providing your employees a platform to have a meaningful voice

Smart innovation & inclusive people leaders who actively source more opinions from their workforce enjoy:

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.

How organizations de-bias decision-making with Swae

Strategic planning

New Product Development

budgeting

Recruitment

The combination of multiple perspectives offers a wider set of possibilities than simple seniority. Of course crowds can be wrong… but if the process is designed carefully, with the right checkpoints and safeguards in place, crowdsourcing can bring fresh insights for wider consideration.

Steve Stanton
– Author of Harvard Business Review article  “How Process Enterprises Really Work”

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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 teams

%

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

Say goodbye to pre-disposed bias, and ignite a culture of continuous innovation

Decisions are often made in management silo’s with the highest paid person in the room’s opinion (“HIPPO”) that prevails. Swae’s bottom-up ideation is a repeatable process that eliminates barriers to continuously surface great strategy. 

Gather and share more employee ideas
 Eliminate silo’s and overcome barriers when sourcing ideas
 Build a rich innovation pipeline

Align your organization towards strategic goals and decision-making

Debias decision-making through crowdsourcing, efficiently and fast

Move beyond what exclusive hierarchical decision-making can provide. Swae’s helps your organization achieve its’ goals by allowing intelligence to move up and down the hierarchy freely, with only the strongest ideas garnering the acceptance to go to market. All without foregoing decision-making authority or bogging things down. 

Avoid creating policies and decisions in a vacuum

Garner immediate feedback from customers and communities

Evaluate and align, fast

Obtain real time data

Swae is your trusted and secure choice for debiasing decision-making

Engage productive employee 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

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.

Explore other uses of Swae

REMOTE WORKING & COLLABORATION

INNOVATION & IDEA MANAGEMENT

CITIZEN POLICY & CONSULTATION

CUSTOMER
CROWDSOURCING

Say hello to smart decision making. 

Learn how Swae can support your organization.

Is Swae

for you?

Engagement, Inclusivity & Diversity

Engagement, Inclusivity & Diversity

Swae drives engagement, inclusivity & diversity

Increase engagement through collective cohesion of your workforce. Increase emotional buy-in and retain motivated staff

 

Break down barriers and activate the full potential of your workforce

Swae guides users through a methodical discovery process, including the option of anonymity, to help articulate their idea without fear of consequences and contribute to your strategy in a meaningful way.

Align culture and drives deep commitment behind your strategy

Swae platform allows consensus to form organically and efficiently, providing a platform to help align your organization behind your strategy through early and consistent interactions.

Understand Organizational Sentiment and Increase Health

Gain insights into what’s happening inside your organization and guidance on where to focus next. Pinpoint vulnerabilities and weaknesses in your organization and culture.

Go beyond engagement

Help listen to your employees and get results back quickly. Reporting and analytics capabilities to help you interact with your data, analyze what you are hearing, and act on those insights to improve employee engagement and experience, and increase business performance.

Break-down silos and bottlenecks

Swae circumvents unhealthy hierarchies and politics by making innovation & participatory decision-making permission less, allowing participants to feel heard.

Increase transparency in the decision making process

Swae’s clear framework makes decentralized decision making efficient and coherent, by providing visibility to all users of the the users of the process from start to finish.

What you want to achieve…

For Who?

  • Chief HR Officer
  • Chief Learning Officer
  • Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Lead

Why?

Powering performance through diversity, inclusivity & engagement
Increasing diversity and inclusion is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. Diverse input can have a big impact within organizations looking to ameliorate and mitigate the amount of cognitive bias in their decisions. It also leads to higher engagement, better quality decision-making and better organizational performance, by challenging your brain to overcome its stale ways of thinking and sharpen its performance.

Hierarchical organisations with traditional top-down decision making processes often leave employees feeling unheard, leading to low productivity and retention levels, organizational health, and under-leveraged innovation opportunities. A disengaged workforce not only drains productivity, but often suffer from excessive group think in their decisions. Hierarchical decision-making processes excludes management from good ideas, keeps most out of influencing what organizations do.

The challenge is how best to translate workplace diversity into efficient operational processes that can deliver winning decisions and solutions to boost organizational performance.

Science has proven that diverse teams outperform homogeneous ones.

Most leaders are unable to translate workplace diversity to boost organizational performance.
Swae solves that.

Swae increases engagement while unlocking the full potential of your workforce in an inclusive manner. The platform drives collective cohesion of your workforce by providing a simplified channel to allow your staff to actively participate and contribute to your strategy in a meaningful way.

Understanding organizational sentiment and health provides your company with a competitive edge. Swae guides users through a methodical discovery process, including the option of anonymity, to help articulate their ideas and thoughts without fear of consequences. By listening to your employees and gaining insights into what’s happening inside your organization, you will be able to pinpoint vulnerabilities and weaknesses in your organization and culture at an early stage and have guidance on where to focus next.

Swae’s reporting and analytics capabilities help you interact with your data, analyze what you are hearing, and act on those insights to improve employee engagement and experience, and increase business performance.

Swae gives you continuous improvement

Swae is a repeatable process that continuously surfaces great strategy; and helps you achieve your organisation’s goals.

Benefits when you implement Swae

Swae shines a light on the ideas that matter to your organisation, and supercharges your culture to one where engagement and innovatition thrive.

Get game changing ideas

• Shine a light on the best ideas
• Benefit from a bottom-up process for strategy & innovation
• De-risk and de-bias ideas 
• Cross-cutting collaboration

Get smarter decisions

• Make decision making a smarter process using AI
• Include a wider opinion on decisions
• Identify and breakdown unproductive silos
• Access unvarnished truth

Engage your team

• Increases emotional buy in by allowing users to influence agenda
• Avoid organizational politics
• Help others gain recognition transparently

Get insightful reports

• Access insights to help improve performance and culture
• Identify and breakdown unproductive silos
• Measure the pulse on your organization’s health

Swae helps the world's best companies

transform the way they work

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
Medecins Sans Frontieres
Board Member
Etihad
"Swae taught us that 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
Etihad Airways
Senior Manager Strategy & Innovation
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 International Alumni Center
Managing Director

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