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      <h3>What it is</h3>
      <p>Signalen makes it easier for residents to make a report, and helps the city respond to the most important things first.</p>
      <p><strong>It includes:</strong></p>
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        <li>Algorithmic processing by type of complaint, and second layer triaging and prioritization by humans</li>
        <li>Automatic updates to complainants about the status of their report</li>
        <li>Automatic alerts to city staff based on analysis of combined reports</li>
        <li>Allowing reports to be passed on to other city workers and subcontractors</li>
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    <h3>How we're helping</h3>
    <p>We're helping Amsterdam and the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) define a governance structure, including shared feature roadmaps and technical steering.</p>
    <p>We're also helping make the codebase more conducive to collaboration, including:</p>
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      <li>Clear branching and gitflow models</li>
      <li>Automated unit tests and integration testing</li>
      <li>Engineering guidelines</li>
      <li>Help prepare the community to empower market parties to offer the solution as Software as a Service (SaaS)</li>
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      <dt>Languages and frameworks:</dt>
      <dd>Django Python</dd>
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      <dt>Created by:</dt>
      <dd>Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2018)</dd>
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      <dt>Replicating:</dt>
      <dd>Strong interest from other Dutch cities and the VNG (representing 355 municipalities), as well as Ghent (Belgium) as part of the European SCORE project.</dd>
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    <h3>Opportunity</h3>
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      <dd>Other Dutch municipalities</dd>
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    <p>The VNG wants to make it 'one click deployable' from their Common Ground appstore.</p>
    <p>Amsterdam, the VNG and 's-Hertogenbosch have asked for our expertise while they refactor the codebase to be more modular and reusable while it's in production in Amsterdam.</p>
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    <h3>Find out more</h3>
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      <li><a href="https://signalen.org" target="_blank">Signalen website</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=I2Z-mRFt3pg" target="_blank">"Signalen: helping cities manage and prioritize citizens' reports"</a> (video)</li>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/Amsterdam/signals" target="_blank">Github: backend</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://github.com/Amsterdam/signals-frontend" target="_blank">Github: frontend</a></li>
      <li><a href="https://meldingen.amsterdam.nl" target="_blank">Amsterdam public interface</a></li>
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