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PlaceSpeak Recognized as a 2022 Best for the World B Corp for Exceptional Impact in Governance
Friday, July 15, 2022Company Profile | Follow Company
Vancouver, BC, July 15, 2022--(T-Net)--PlaceSpeak, a location-based public engagement platform based in Vancouver, has been named a 2022 Best for the World B Corp in recognition of its exceptional positive impact in the Governance impact area.
Best for the World is a distinction granted by B Lab to Certified B Corporations (B Corps) whose verified B Impact Scores in the five impact areas evaluated in the B Impact Assessment - community, customers, environment, governance, and workers - rank in the top 5% of all B Corps in their corresponding size group.
Organizations recognized in the Governance impact area achieved a top score in overall mission, ethics, accountability and transparency. Their best practices are focused on how they engage employees, board members, and the community to achieve their mission, as well as employee access to financial information, customers' opportunities to provide feedback, and the diversity of their governing bodies.
PlaceSpeak was first certified as a B Corporation in 2021.
Gordon Hardwick, President of PlaceSpeak
"PlaceSpeak's citizen-centric model puts people at the heart of the process. Our civic network makes it easy for people to stay informed and have a say on local issues, while ensuring that individual privacy is protected", said PlaceSpeak President Gordon Hardwick.
Colleen Hardwick, Founder and CEO of PlaceSpeak
PlaceSpeak Founder and CEO, Colleen Hardwick added, "In this digital day and age, when public trust in government has dropped to historical lows, it is essential that we make it real online. When governments engage in legitimate, verifiable and authenticated public consultation, public trust is enhanced. Plus, we can do without the bots and trolls."
"Each Best for the World edition is an opportunity to raise the bar for how businesses can and should operate to create real and lasting positive impact for their workers, customers, communities, and the environment," said Dan Osusky, Head of Standards and Insights at B Lab Global. "While no company is perfect and even the best companies can and should continue to strive to improve, the B Corps recognized as Best for the World can provide us all - standards setters, B Corps, non B Corps, and sustainability advocates - with inspiration on what true leadership in business can look like to make progress on addressing our current global challenges."
About PlaceSpeak
PlaceSpeak is a location-based engagement platform. Its mission is to authenticate the online consultation process in an open, accessible, transparent, verifiable and defensible manner. Our unique geo-verification technology connects participants' digital identity to their physical location, ensuring that the feedback collected can legitimately be used for evidence-based decision-making. PlaceSpeak provides policy-makers with the confidence that the feedback collected is coming from real, relevant people - not bots or trolls.
About B Lab
B Lab is transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. A leader in economic systems change, our global network creates standards, policies, tools, and programs for business, and we certify companies - known as B Corps - who are leading the way. To date, our community includes 400,000 workers in over 5,000 B Corps across 80 countries and 155 industries, and more than 200,000 companies manage their impact with the B Impact Assessment and the SDG Action Manager. B Lab has created and led efforts to pass over 50 corporate statutes globally that enable stakeholder governance, with over 10,000 companies using the legal framework.
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