Choose a specific service and one disruption scenario with the organisation.
500 Queens / Pandemics, Plagues & Extreme Weather
Pandemics, Plagues & Extreme Weather
Help communities compare disruption needs through practical continuity exercises and current official information.
Follow the connections. Choose your direction.
The need worth working on.
A pandemic, disease outbreak or extreme-weather event can interrupt ordinary services in very different ways. A useful enterprise should not bundle them into a single prediction. It should ask how one organisation maintains an essential service when people, supplies, access or communication are disrupted.
What the enterprise could offer.
Create a continuity-research and scenario service for a willing community organisation. Use current authoritative information for the selected hazard and keep fictional exercises clearly labelled. The pilot would examine responsibilities, communications and access needs rather than attempt to forecast an event.
People to build with
- Community organisations reviewing service continuity
- Small businesses with dependent customers
- Local groups coordinating practical support during disruption
Keep one essential service working
Verify the relevant official information before writing the exercise.
Map dependencies, decision authority and people who need accessible communication.
Run a tabletop rehearsal with a realistic interruption to one resource.
Record unresolved actions, assign owners and repeat the part that failed.
The first result
A continuity map and an action record the organisation can maintain.
What needs to be demonstrated.
Practical pilot
The starting evidence
A tabletop exercise can reveal gaps in responsibilities and dependencies. It does not predict a hazard or certify operational readiness.
The open question
The source supplies no hazard model, local assessment, participating organisation or validated response capability.
The next measurement
Check whether participants can locate the right information and make the agreed decision during the rehearsal.
Build the means to deliver.
Useful capabilities and resources
- A continuity facilitator and relevant subject adviser
- Current official hazard information
- A willing organisation and accessible participation arrangements
A possible business model
Commissioned continuity exercises and documentation support, with specialist operational decisions remaining with responsible organisations.
A leadership decision to practise
Include the people most affected by service interruptions in the design. Assign action owners who have authority and resources to follow through.
People, consequences and decisions.
- A tidy plan may not survive real resource shortages.
- People with care or access needs may be absent from the exercise.
- Outdated hazard information can undermine the scenario.
If equality were being designed now...
- Who keeps caring when normal services close?
- Can remote households and people using other languages receive and act on the information?
Begin with women's own experiences across bodies, ages, cultures and places. Invite disagreement and choose a practical change together.
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From the original suggestion to a working brief.
Developed from original enterprise 106 in the 500 Queens VC NEW Long presentation (slide 18) and the planning document (page 8). This expanded brief is a proposed development path, not evidence of an operating venture or a confirmed partner.
Original title: Pandemics, Plagues & Ext. Weather. The pilot, business model and learning connections on this page are proposed developments of that original idea.