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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 async def announce(self):
 """ This method is used to announce the existence of the service """

        # send a serialized event
        await self.event_broker.send(
            action_type=intialize_service_action(),
            payload=json.dumps(self.summarize())
        )