The Gupta State Failure Management Archive is a 4.3gb archive of Vinay Gupta's work on State Failure centered around the Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps model.
This page is Public Domain (not GFDL) in keeping with the license of the material in the GSFMA. Please note that this will apply to any additions you make to this page. Anything you add here may be repurposed, added to future versions of the archive etc.
Vinay
I've started a "one paragraph" review of some of the entries. Signed with name and date as done in wikis. Is this helpful? LucasG 13:06, 25 August 2011 (PDT)
A GSFMA Primer
Start here
START_HERE__Dealing_in_Security__Simple_Critical_Infrastructure_Maps__July2010.pdf
speaks for itself. Do start here. This file is CC licensed NON-COMMERCIAL USE, please note that.
Our needs are what's not optional. Infrastructure is how we solve our needs. Infrastructure can be understood in areas (too hot, too cold, etc) and in layers (self, household, etc). Infrastructure is needed by individuals (to stay alive) and by groups, organisations and states (to stay functioning, ie providing their basic services). Here you'll find a basic vocabulary around these concepts. LucasG 13:06, 25 August 2011 (PDT)
The Future We Deserve at Winchester - an overview
The_Future_We_Deserve__Winchester_School_of_Art__6May2011_1of2.m4v
(600mb) – general overview of my work, and our position
The_Future_We_Deserve__Winchester_School_of_Art__6May2011_2of2.m4v
(600mb) – second part of the talk, and Q&A
The_Future_We_Deserve__Winchester_School_of_Art__6May2011_slides.pdf
slides
basic infrastructure resources
emergency_shelter__The_Hexayurt_in_Haiti__Summer_2010.pdf
basic overview of a tough hexayurt
how_to_buy_food_for_disasters__Reykjavik__2008.pdf
simple, very, very easy food shopping – can be improved!
STAR_TIDES__BIG_OVERVIEW.pdf
appropriate technology and infrastructure theory from STAR-TIDES
STAR_TIDES__SMALL_OVERVIEW.pdf
a little more infrastructure theory, from a brochure
organizational theory
Observe_Orient_Decide_Act_OODA_2x2.pdf
Boyd’s OODA loop for organizations
On_Designing_Complex_Cooperation_A_Tour_of_The_Gupta_Dimension__Summer2009.mov
organizational theory for non-traditional partnerships, taken from civ/mil cooperation
why_nothing_works_the_Goat_Rodeo_Index.pdf
on the limits of collaboration when people are not properly aligned at a psychological level
Modeling_State_Failure_With_SCIM__Greenhouse_Ireland__29Sep2010.m4v
(390mb) – hardcore mortality analysis of a failed state scenario
strategic_complexity_framework_for_dummies.pdf
light relief, but also vital
Cities
The Free City State
The_Free_City_State_Urban_Governance__The_Really_Free_School_London__Spring2011.mp3
(1)
The_Free_City_State_Urban_Governance__The_Really_Free_School_London__Spring2011__warmup_chat.mp3
(2) a new model of municipal governance which helps decentralize the power of the Mayor.
The Living City - urban resilience for big cities
The_Living_City_on_US_Urban_Resilience__Arup_London__Nov2009.mov
(100mb) – US Urban Resilience analysis we did for Arup. Focuses on cold weather grid stability and pharmaceutical supply chain management
The_Living_City_on_US_Urban_Resilience__Arup_London__Nov2009_slides.pdf
– slides
Through the Looking Glass - quickly model large scale risks
Estimating mass mortality in the event of a complete collapse. Gives a good overview of the SCIM methodology as a risk estimating tool. Ireland's worst-case mortality appears to be around 3%.
Through_the_Looking_Glass__Greenhouse_Ireland__27Sep2010.mp4
(300mb) – how many groups can cooperate to provide essential services in a crisis scenario. introduces the concept of AIAC.
Through_the_Looking_Glass__Greenhouse_Ireland__27Sep2010_slides.pdf
– slides
The_Reykjavik_Briefing_on_Natural_Disaster__Reykjavik__2008.mov
– long range, large scale thinking on natural disasters, including the seeds of what later became SCIM.
web site archives
These are static images of my various web sites as they were on 6 August 2011. Each will need to be unzipped into its own directory, and should be fully browseable. Search etc. will not work, you'll need to use and ordinary file search tool on your local computer.
cheapid.guptaoption.com.6aug2011tar.gz
– web site archive
vinay.howtolivewiki.com.6aug2011.tar.gz
– an archive of this blog, up until yesterday.
guptaoption.com.6aug2011.tar.gz
– web site archive
hexayurt.com.6aug2011.tar.gz
– web site archive
unsorted
Time_to_Stop_Pretending__Uncivilisation_Dark_Mountain_Festival__29May2010.mp4
– a little on the global situation
Vinay_Gupta_and_Mike_Bennett_Collapsonomics__Uncivilisation_Dark_Mountain_Festival__30May2010.mp3
– a briefing on how pre-existing cultural faultlines can be just as dangerous as geological faultlines
TheGuptaStateFailureManagementArchive.tar
– the tar file which contains all these files