Who are we?

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Who are we?

• Anna Conti and Vanni Puccioni come from an
  international career in cooperation- Africa,
  Indonesia, Mashrek-Maghreb, Latin America.
• Today, we are private sector entrepreneurs and
  consultants
• Our areas of work Sustainable development,
  architecture, civil engineering, environment,
  DRR, communications
• www. Arca-med.com, www. Arcaconsulting.com
• www. Annaconti.it

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Anna ContiTop quality, eco-friendly, Design
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Anna ContiTop quality, eco-friendly, Design
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Vanni PuccioniLow cost, local materials,
sustainability
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Environment
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Disaster Risk reduction
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Communicationswww.arca-med.com
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Innovative partnership for DRR

• Disaster Risk Reduction a new area of work ,
  both the public and for the private sector.
• Awareness is growing, but not enough resources
  are invested.
• This proposal aims at developing an innovative
  cooperation framework between
• Private enterprise
• International Institutions
• And produce new sources of funding for DRR

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Our role

• Our focus innovation for DRR
• Our activities to design, patent, diffuse
  develop and diffuse innovative technologies and
  best practices.
• When we design innovation for the industrialized
  world, we systematically consider how the same
  innovation may be brought to the developing
  world.

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Our capability

• Recently, we have developed inventions which are
  specifically geared to DRR
• These are implementable with varied degree of
  sophistication and costs, such that they can be
  produced at the high-tech level for the more
  wealthy public, and at a low tech, affordable
  level, for the vulnerable population and least
  developed countries.

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Our proposal An innovative partnership

• Our proposal is to join forces for the diffusion
  of these inventions to the advantage of DRR both
  in industrialized and in developing countries, by
  reuniting
• A major private sector enterprise
• An International or organization
• Our consortium (Anna Conti HEW-ARCA Consulting )

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Private Industry

• The private enterprise would be licensed by our
  consortium to produce and sell the invention in
  its more sophisticated version.
• It must commit to donating a share of its profits
  on this operation to the public organization, for
  the purpose of DRR in developing countries.

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The International Institutions or NGOs

• are licensed for the low tech version of the
  invention in developing countries.
• Receive funding from private enterprise for the
  implementation of projects for the production and
  diffusion of the invention in developing
  countries

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Our Project

• Sets conditions for supporting International
  organisation when selling license to private
  sector
• Donates license for low tech version in
  developing countries to International Organisation

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Some of our patented products

• Anti-earthquake bed and survival shell
• Educational earthquake toy
• Ovolution- anti-catstrophe, anti-tsunami shelter

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Anti-earthquake bed and survival shell A simple
way to save lives in an earthquake

• The majority of deaths occur at night, when an
  earthquake strikes as people are in their homes.
• The idea is that your bed should be able to
  protect you from the collapsing building, and
  provide a shell in which you will survive until
  help can reach you.

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• Starting from a centuries-old design- the canopy
  bed- we have developed one in which the canopy
  and the base can join to form a highly resistant
  shell in which you can survive even under the
  fallen building.
• The principle is that the kinetic energy of the
  falling buidling is absorbed by springs, which
  are compressed as the canopy decsends to join the
  base.

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• The design and the materials being used change
  according to the type of building in which the
  bed will be located.
• In a multistorey building made of concrete or
  steel, the bed will be built with steel or other
  strong metal elements
• But in a single, or two storey building such as
  the ones most common in Developing countries, it
  is ok to use less expensive materials- for
  example, to recycle parts of old vehichles!!

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The earthquake toy

• Children all over the world play at making model
  constructions, since immemorable time.
• The idea is to make this game into alearning
  experience how to make buildings that resist
  earthquakes.

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• This we can do by making a toy that simulates an
  earthquake, which can test the resistance of the
  model buildings.
• Coupled with a good system of model
  constructions, and with appropriate written,
  graphic and audiovisual materials, this toy can
  help children develop a good base of knowledge.

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• So we have developed a very simple earthquake
  simulator, consisting of a platform which is made
  to vibrate horizontally and vertically, in the
  same way as the ground does in an earthquake.
• The platform is powered by a battery, or a
  spring, or even a simple turn-handle.

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• The children will build a model contruction and
  place it on the platform, simulate the earthquake
  and see what happens to their model. The
  difference in resistance between different
  designs will be evident.

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• LEGO would be an ideal partner- to produce and
  market the game in developed nations.
• The game could be produced at very low cost and
  widely diffused in developing countries, through
  schools for example,
• The children would spread their knowledge in
  their nieghbourhoods, bringing to better building
  practices and even to improvements on existing
  buildings.

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OVOLUTION
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