Onboard participants

Blue Dots helps people and organisations near each other find each other. Follow this path if you are onboarding participants onto the network as a local organisation. Examples are skilling centres and ITIs (Industrial Training Institutes) on Blue, schools and education NGOs on Yellow, disabled persons’ organisations (DPOs) on Purple, tourism bodies on Orange, and government departments on any dot. It explains what aggregators do, how the Aggregator DPG is built, and how to install and configure it.

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Introduction

What Blue Dots is, what a dot is, and which sectors it serves.

2

Aggregators

What aggregators do, and how the Aggregator DPG brings participants and their signals onto the network.

3

The Dot Lifecycle

The seven steps your participants go through, and the two steps you own: data collection and Verified.

4

Participant Profiles

The roles on each network and the fields each profile carries.

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Aggregator DPG Architecture

Internals of the aggregator-facing app — API, portal and background worker.

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Aggregator DPG Setup

Install, migrate and run the Aggregator API, web portal and worker.

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Keycloak Setup

Register the service client the Aggregator authenticates with.

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Configuration

How configuration-as-code works across the Blue Dots DPGs, and where each value lives.

Go deeper

API ConventionsReference for the Signals and Aggregator endpoints, auth headers and error conventions.

GlossaryShort definitions of the words used across Blue Dots — in the product, these docs and the code.

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