Jake Lawrence · STS / Digital Public Infrastructure / Recovery Data · Field Data theme
The empirical companion to the Wartime Edition. Ukraine has assessed roughly 90 billion dollars in housing reconstruction need and disbursed on the order of 1 to 2 percent of it through eRecovery so far. The load-bearing reason is a property registry that was 40 percent complete at the invasion.
The field-data arm of the Invisible Infrastructure series, and the measurement the Wartime Edition asked for after calling its own cohort a model, not a measurement. A sourced, content-as-code dataset across four threads: the registry vs. damage race, the damage-to-compensation gap, the device gate and the digital divide, and the Register of Damage for Ukraine claim categories. An interactive gap meter sets compensation disbursed against assessed need; a methods section carries the full provenance ledger. Refreshed quarterly by pull request.
The measurement the essay asked for. The Wartime Edition called its cohort a model, not a measurement, and named three things nobody publishes. The Legibility Gap publishes them: assessed damage against compensation disbursed, the registry completeness behind the wedge, and the residual category as live Register of Damage codes.
Unratified builds the identity layer of digital public infrastructure by hand. The Legibility Gap measures what the property layer of the same infrastructure can and cannot read, in disbursed hryvnia and uncovered registry.
Classification as Infrastructure names the residual category in the abstract. The Legibility Gap counts it: the losses with no open category to hold them, tracked as the Register of Damage opens its codes in stages.
The Sorting Machine watches classification sort children. The Legibility Gap is the wartime ledger of the same machine sorting homes, in money moved and money still out of reach.
What the State Keeps reads the state as a classified inventory from above. The Legibility Gap reads one wartime state's recovery from below, as the gap between assessed damage and the records that can verify a claim.
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