Nepal & Society
6 articles on nepal & society, written by the team at SiteCraft Innovation.
Writing about Nepali public-interest problems that happen to be engineering problems: floods, road safety, emergency response, and the systems that could reduce the harm from each.
These are the articles we would write whether or not they brought in work. Start with the Bhotekoshi flood explained and what an early warning system actually takes. Where we build systems like these, it is through software development and data science.
A Flood Warning System for the Bhote Koshi: What It Would Actually Take
A warning window measured in minutes, a hazard that starts across a border, uneven mobile coverage and equipment nobody is funded to maintain. A build note on the system that would work anyway, and the parts that decide whether it survives to year three.
The Bhote Koshi Floods, Explained: Why These Valleys Keep Flooding
Two rivers share the name Bhote Koshi, both come out of Tibet, and both have flooded violently in living memory. Here is the physical mechanism, what sits in the path, and why the warning window is measured in minutes rather than hours.
Nepal's Road Crash Data Problem, and What Better Reporting Would Look Like
Road crashes are one of Nepal's most persistent public safety issues, and the data used to fight them is scattered across agencies that never agreed on a common record. Here is what a usable national picture would actually require, field by field.
Designing a Highway Incident Alert System for Nepali Conditions
What it would take to warn drivers about a blocked or dangerous stretch of highway in a country with uneven coverage, mixed handsets and several languages on the same road. Written as a design note, including the parts that usually kill these projects.
What an Emergency Response App for Nepal Actually Needs
Most emergency apps are built for cities with one ambulance service, addressed streets and reliable data. Nepal needs a different set of assumptions, and getting them wrong produces an app that fails at exactly the moment it exists for.
Monsoon Flooding in Nepal: A Digital Preparedness Checklist for Businesses
Flooding, landslides and long outages disrupt Nepali businesses every monsoon. This is the practical technology checklist to work through in the dry months, in the order it matters, not during the week the road closes.