# User:Vinay Gupta/Gupta State Failure Management Archive > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [99]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Text), 2011 (year of the work, not of publication), http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Archive of SCIM-centred state-failure work. - Career works it belongs to: - The Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011): 4.3 GB of lectures and documents on state failure and contingency management, released into the public... - Defense Horizons 70 (2009): Co-authored National Defense University paper on supporting stressed populations with distributed talent. (suggested by machine) - The Living City (2009): A Buttered Side Down talk to the engineering firm Arup, with Mike Bennett: how cities learned to beat... (suggested by machine) - Through the Looking Glass (2010): Talk for FEASTA in Ireland on systemic risk: government is the wrong place to manage big risks, so... (suggested by machine) - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. (through a work suggested by machine) - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Ideas developed here: CheapID / identity for everyone - Topics: SCIM / Six Ways To Die — layered critical-infrastructure mapping (50%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Arup (3 here; 9 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); Reykjavik (3 here; 10 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 2 undated); urban resilience (2 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); SCIM (3 here; 19 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 9 undated); Ireland (4 here; 36 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); city state (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); OODA (2 here; 16 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 7 undated); TIDES (3 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); Through the Looking Glass (1 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); State Failure Management Archive (1 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2011) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): urban resilience; State Failure Management Archive - Importance: core-text score 0.39 (1.00 is the top), number 168 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [824] [Index of /__CRASHPAD (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/824.md): same career work: The Gupta State Failure Management Archive - [89] [The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/89.md): same career work: The Gupta State Failure Management Archive - On the same works, just before: [849] Through the Looking Glass (slides) (2010); [250] [Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md); [365] [social media and local resilience (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/365.md) - On the same works, just after: [87] [The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction. | The... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md); [364] [burning ice brussels seven minute tour (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/364.md); [363] [Culture Control Group - Brussels Cheese Crisis Report -... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/363.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: User:Vinay Gupta/Gupta State Failure Management Archive, document, 2011, http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [99], https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive) 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 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, organizations and states (to stay functioning, ie providing their basic services). Here you'll find a basic vocabulary around these concepts. 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 [edit | edit source] The_Free_City_State_Urban_Governance__The_Really_Free_School_London__Spring2011.mp3[edit | edit source] (1) The_Free_City_State_Urban_Governance__The_Really_Free_School_London__Spring2011__warmup_chat.mp3[edit | edit source] (2) a new model of municipal governance which helps decentralize the power of the Mayor. The Living City - urban resilience for big cities [edit | edit source] The_Living_City_on_US_Urban_Resilience__Arup_London__Nov2009.mov[edit | edit source] (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[edit | edit source] – 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 [passage 2](http://www.appropedia.org/Gupta_State_Failure_Management_Archive) 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 --- End of [99] User:Vinay Gupta/Gupta State Failure Management Archive. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [87](https://guptaoption.com/texts/87.md) The Atrocity Archives, and a little new fiction. | The... (2011); the most closely related, [824](https://guptaoption.com/texts/824.md) Index of /__CRASHPAD (2011); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.