The VNG (Association of Netherlands Municipalities) already said it: in an era in which data play a crucial role in policy-making, service delivery and decision-making, a well-considered data strategy is essential for municipalities.
That sounds logical, but the reality is that many policy officers still spend hours manually collecting data from separate Excel files, fragmented systems and reports that are already outdated by the time they are ready.
Meanwhile, the same municipalities have to make decisions about:
Which district needs extra attention?
How many homes will actually be completed this year?
How far are we with the energy transition?
Are the invoices from our waste processor correct?
These are not small questions. They are challenges whose consequences residents feel directly.
At Clappform we believe that data-driven working is not a luxury for municipalities. It should be accessible to every municipality, every policy officer, every environmental coordinator who makes decisions every day on the basis of incomplete information.
That is why we build applications that bring together data from different sources in one central place: visual, up to date and directly applicable. Whether it concerns liveability in neighbourhoods, progress in housing construction, making the housing stock more sustainable or mapping waste streams: the insights must be available to the people who can act on them.
Data-driven working is not an end destination. It is a way of working you can start now.
Curious how other municipalities are already getting started with this?
Clappform.com/Municipalities
VNG - Getting started with data-driven ways of working
