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<p>Hello Ananda </p>
<p>Nice to talk to you again my friend, despite the circumstances,
but friends also are in those moments. I would like to share with
you that in Colombia, we implemented a system with the help of one
of working groups, an early emergency alert system for floods in a
region so similar to the one in Nepal, so talking with my working
group, we will be glad to share with you our experience. You can
email-me at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:presidencia@isoc.co">presidencia@isoc.co</a>, and I will be the bridge and the
translator in this cooperation. <br>
<br>
All the best, </p>
<p>Umut Pajaro Velasquez</p>
<p>Internet Society Colombia Chapter - President </p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 26/08/26 a las 13:41, Ananda Gautam
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Chapter Leaders,<br>
<br>
Writing from the Internet Society Nepal Chapter,<br>
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Earlier today, 26 August 2026, a flash flood on the Bhote Koshi
tore through Timure and Syabrubesi in Rasuwa district on Nepal's
northern border. Hydropower plants, market areas, road links and
the Timure helipad have been destroyed or badly damaged, and
districts downstream along the Trishuli are on alert. The cause
is not yet confirmed. The human toll is still being established,
so I will not circulate figures that are changing by the hour.
Search and rescue is ongoing as I write.<br>
<br>
Our chapter has issued a public statement, attached. In short:
condolences and recognition of the responders; appreciation for
the free communication services announced by the Ministry of
Communication and Information Technology and by the operators;
and an argument that telecommunications and Internet
infrastructure are themselves emergency infrastructure, not a
convenience that can be restored after the roads and the power.
When fibre, backhaul, electricity and roads fail at the same
moment, coordination of the response fails with them.<br>
<br>
I want to be honest about why I am writing to this list rather
than simply circulating a statement.<br>
<br>
We do not have a worked-out disaster response capability, and I
suspect that is true of a good number of chapters. When 26
platforms were blocked here in September 2025 and national
traffic dropped by around half, we responded with advocacy,
because advocacy is what we are built for. A flood is a
different problem. It asks for preparedness work done years
earlier, relationships with the national disaster authority and
the regulator that exist before the emergency rather than after
it, and a technical position on backup power, route redundancy
and alternative connectivity that someone has already written
down. We are starting most of that from scratch, in the middle
of it.<br>
<br>
So this is a request, not an announcement. If your chapter has
been through a cyclone, an earthquake, a wildfire, a flood, a
conflict-driven outage or a shutdown, I would like to hear:<br>
<br>
<ol>
<li>What did your chapter actually do, concretely, and at what
point in the timeline did you do it?</li>
<li>Who did you work with, and did that relationship exist
before the crisis or did you build it during?</li>
<li>What did you try that did not work, or could not be
attempted at all, and what was the binding constraint:
mandate, funding, access, or standing with the government?</li>
<li>What has held up technically in your context: community
networks, emergency roaming, satellite backhaul, backup
power, offline content caches, something else?</li>
<li>Is there a common set of tasks chapters could put to
regulators and operators, on restoration priority, emergency
roaming, free calling, and public transparency about
outages?</li>
</ol>
<br>
If there is enough response, I am happy to do the collation work
and bring back a synthesis to this list: what chapters have
done, what worked, and where the recurring gaps are. Not a
framework imposed from Kathmandu, just an organised record of
experience that a chapter facing its first disaster could
actually read.<br>
<br>
Two threads this would connect to rather than duplicate. The
Internet Society Foundation has been funding Internet resiliency
in disaster response for several years, and chapters that have
held those grants will know far more than we do.<br>
<br>
Please reply on the list so others can see the answers.<br>
<br>
Best Regards,<br>
Ananda Gautam<br>
Co-Founder,<br>
Open Internet Nepal - Internet Society Nepal Chapter <br>
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