Hofors Municipality - Revolutionary participation in Hofors municipality

Hofors Municipality has successfully implemented the Vocean platform to promote open innovation, idea generation and collaboration. Vocean has been used to increase participation and influence, both internally and externally. Hofors Municipality has involved citizens, employees and stakeholders in decision-making processes and improvements. Vocean supports this through its Innovation funnel where ideas are collected, ideas are developed and enriched in co-creation processes and consensus is achieved through selection and joint prioritizations, where the goal of the process is new brilliant solutions. The Vocean platform has been used to collect opinions on, among other things, the Community Center, school meal issues and the municipality's comprehensive plan. The platform has also been used to involve employees in energy saving proposals, improvement initiatives and safety surveys for elementary school students. Internally, Vocean has been used to conduct employee surveys for the municipality's over 900 employees. This has meant that the surveys have not stopped at the results from a survey, but the answers are processed further through co-creation and consensus around development proposals and new solutions.