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Status: concept and pitch prototype, May 2026.

What: Uitwijken.nl is a society-owned civic community layer for Amsterdam and, eventually, other Dutch places. It combines two axes that existing platforms keep separate: where you are and what you care about. The result is an instant community model for a house, street, buurt, city, province, country, or any other meaningful civic layer.

Core distinction: Uitwijken.nl is not a government platform, not a company platform, and not another engagement feed. It is intended to be from, for, and by society: a shared digital layer where residents, government, and entrepreneurs can understand what is happening locally, make decisions, coordinate services, discover events, and move into physical-world action.

Why this folder exists

This folder captures the current concept as a location-and-theme civic operating layer:

Location cascades from house to street to buurt to city and beyond.
Themes organize public life across healthcare, safety, youth, events, services, budgets, planning, and local initiatives.
Three roles participate: Bewoner, Overheid, and Ondernemer.
The platform turns scattered civic information into structured decisions, events, questionnaires, and action.

The immediate goal is a proof-of-concept convincing enough for a conversation with Amsterdam innovation leadership.

Active Map

Concept

File	What it holds
Vision	The thesis: society-owned, location-plus-theme, physical-world community
Concepts	Surrounding model: cascading geography, themes, roles, inbox, action loops
Building-blocks	The closed set of objects people create: event, conversation, ask/offer, survey
Governance	Ownership, design principles, formal/informal communities, moderation, three-role build model
Naming	Settled product name vs. the still-open descriptor — working the "what do we call it?" question from first principles

Product Proof

File	What it holds
Proof-of-concept	The six wireframes needed to make the idea concrete
Open-data	Amsterdam data sources and how they become map layers, plans, events, and civic prompts
Adoption	Events as the bootstrap hook, questionnaires as the participation hook

Data & Research

File	What it holds
Event-sources	Living inventory of geotagged event APIs, feeds, and scrape targets — with the current working priority
Map-sources	Living inventory of the base tiles, boundaries, and address/building geometry behind the map
Precedents	Similar civic-infrastructure initiatives elsewhere — Decidim and others — and what each one proves
Research-log	Append-only record of research dives and the decisions they produced

Delivery

File	What it holds
Funding	How a society-owned platform can still fund a serious team
Risks-and-next-steps	What must be proven now and next actions

Process & Record

File	What it holds
History	How the project's framing has shifted over time, and why the wiki says what it now says
Meeting-2026-06-01	Latest briefing with Roy Bekhuis — events discovery, services, public-only interactions
Meeting-2026-05-22	Briefing that widened scope from a buurt network to a location × theme civic layer
Meeting-2026-04-16	Kickoff: the original buurt-scoped, fediverse-native vision

One-sentence pitch

Uitwijken.nl is a public-interest, open-source, society-owned social platform that uses location, themes, maps, open data, questionnaires, events, and civic roles to help people understand, shape, and participate in their real-world communities.