July 21, 2026 · 7 min read
The Smart City Breaks Between the Systems
Cities already have sensors, apps, data, and infrastructure. The harder problem is what happens in the gaps where no department, vendor, or interface owns the complete experience.
HAAM Notes / Topic
Civic Technology
9 notes follow this idea through the HAAM archive.
July 21, 2026 · 8 min read
The Interface Arrived Before the Institution
What Venezuela's citizen-built earthquake tools reveal about AI, emergency infrastructure, and software that acquires public responsibility before it has governance.
July 12, 2026 · 10 min read
The City Is an Interface
How streets, public services, data, culture, and infrastructure turn urban planning into an everyday experience.
July 2018 archive · 9 min read
Mapping Waste Before the Cleanup: State of the Map 2018 in Milan
A personal archive note from State of the Map 2018, where Kris Haamer and Kadri Maripuu presented MapIt: Global Trash Hunt and treated OpenStreetMap as coordination infrastructure for World Cleanup Day.
March 2025 field note · 8 min read
Open Data Day Taiwan 2025 and the Work of Making Local Data Legible
A first-person field note from Open Data Day Taiwan 2025 at National Taipei University, where Wikidata Taiwan gathered people around the theme of local data and the public work required to keep it useful.
November 2018 archive · 8 min read
MongoDB Europe 2018 and the Infrastructure Behind a Global Day of Action
A personal archive note from MongoDB Europe at Old Billingsgate in London, when work on World Cleanup Day made database reliability a practical product concern.
June 22, 2026 · 2 min read
What Happens When a Product Shuts Down?
Lessons from the World Cleanup app about open-source afterlives, public-interest technology, and designing responsible endings.
June 22, 2026 · 2 min read
Open Data as Civic Interface
What waste maps, sensors, and Taiwan's garbage-truck applications teach us about making public systems legible.
September 15, 2023 · 4 min read
Pollution Is a Design Failure
From World Cleanup Day and open waste maps to Green Filter, a backdated archive note on sustainability as an interaction-design problem.