This document discusses disaster preparedness and strengthening collaboration among the internet community. It aims to encourage network operators to implement disaster management plans and business continuity plans. It also seeks to help participants understand how international disaster recovery networks and governments operate in emergencies. The goal is to build advance networks and identify resources that can help rebuild and reconstruct in the event of a disaster.

1. Issue Date:
Revision:
Disaster preparedness:
strengthening collaboration
among the Internet community for
emergency communications and
reconstruction
Sylvia Cadena
Community Partnerships Specialist
8 Sep 2015
8 Sep 2015
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2. Purpose of this session
• Plan: Encourage network operators to put a disasters
management plan in place, business continuity plans, etc.
• Learn: Understand how the international disaster recovery
networks operate, how your government operates, how
other organizations in a similar role prepare.
• Network: who will you contact? Build advance networks
• Participate: what can the Internet Community do?
Resources (knowledge, time, equipment) to rebuild and
reconstruct