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

Anna Conti:Top quality, eco-friendly, Design

Anna Conti:Top quality, eco-friendly, Design

Vanni Puccioni:Low cost, local materials,

sustainability

Environment

Disaster Risk reduction

Communicationswww.arca-med.com

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

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.

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.

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 )

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.

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

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

Some of our patented products

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

shelter

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.

• 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.

• 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!!

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

OVOLUTION

Vedi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8QBu823ae0