The Digital Landsgemeinde

The entire population has its say, anonymously and on a broad footing.

Now live: “Your Switzerland. Your Family.”, the national citizen dialogue with 20 Minuten. Tens of thousands are discussing the future of family policy on BrainE4. What works nationally works in your municipality too.

At the ballot box, it is too late to listen. Some proposals fail not on substance, but because nobody knew the public mood in time. With BrainE4, you know the mood before the decision is made.

How it works: the idea duel

Participants always compare two statements and decide which they find more convincing. Anonymously, on their smartphone, in a few minutes. From thousands of such duels, BrainE4 calculates which concerns genuinely command a majority. The method was developed with the universities of applied sciences ZHAW and OST and funded by Innosuisse.

Not another participation platform, not another survey, but a complementary method:

1. Arguing instead of commenting. No likes, no noise, but dynamic consensus validation.

2. Protected identities. Organised groups cannot distort the result.

3. Decision-ready output. Validated majority and minority positions, in the words of those affected.

Your effort, our process

• Together we define the topic and the questions. We set up the digital dialogue space.

• Your residents contribute ideas and evaluate them in the Ideenduell.

• BrainE4 ensures compliance with the dialogue rules and detects attempts at manipulation.

• The final report delivers clear priorities and concrete recommendations for action.

Three hours of effort for your administration. We handle the rest, and the result is on your desk within 21 days. Compliant with data protection law under the FADP and GDPR.

What you achieve

1. Secure legitimacy. The entire population behind you, not just the few dozen who turn up to the information evening.

2. Clarify resistance early. Identify conflicts while they can still be resolved.

3. Objectify budget debates. Priorities set by the population itself.

4. Reduce referendum risk. Projects succeed because everyone was on board early.

Proven in practice with

• Municipality of Schwyz: 1,772 ideas from the population were turned into concrete recommendations for the municipal council.

• FDP Canton Zug: The public pulse was measured and formed the basis for the election manifesto.

• National: With 20 Minuten, BrainE4 is currently running one of Switzerland's largest citizen dialogues.

Applications

Local planning · Mobility · Site development · School facility planning · Energy & climate · Referendums

The next step

In the live webinar «Citizen Dialogue in action», we show you how the citizen dialogue works in your municipality: set-up, protection against manipulation, final report.