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Internet Shutdown

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Responses to deliberate internet shutdowns by governments or infrastructure failures.

Case Studies— 4

  1. Cuba: Grid Collapse and the Diaspora Communication Blackout (2024)

    How a series of national power grid failures across 2024 left 10 million Cubans without electricity, cut mobile and internet services, and severed contact between the island and the nearly 3 million Cuban Americans trying to reach family from abroad.

    Cuba2024

  2. Bangladesh: Internet Shutdown During the 2024 Uprising

    How Bangladesh's government imposed a 22-day shutdown during the student-led uprising of July–August 2024, using layered controls from full blackouts to VPN blocking, and what survived.

    Bangladesh2024

  3. Ukraine: Civilian Communication Networks Under Infrastructure Attack

    How Starlink, civilian mesh networks, and amateur radio combined to maintain communication across Ukraine after Russia's 2022 invasion, and what it reveals about resilience under deliberate attack.

    Ukraine2022

  4. Guifi.net: Europe's Largest Community Network

    How a farmer in rural Catalonia who couldn't get broadband built a community network that grew to 35,000 nodes, and the governance model that made it sustainable for two decades.

    Catalonia, Spain2004

Playbooks— 1

  1. Staying in Contact with Family Across Borders During a Crisis

    A practical guide for people with family in another country who may lose power, internet, or phone service during a conflict, disaster, or grid failure — what to set up now, and what your options are when normal communication stops.

    Individual / household