1. 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

2. Anna Conti: Top quality, eco-friendly, Design

4. Vanni Puccioni: Low cost, local materials, sustainability

5. Environment

6. Disaster Risk reduction

7. Communications www.arca-med.com

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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 )

12. 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.

13. 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

14. 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

15. Some of our patented products Anti-earthquake bed and survival shell Educational earthquake toy Ovolution- anti-catstrophe, anti-tsunami shelter

16. 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.

17. 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.

21. 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!!

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. OVOLUTION Vedi: http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=O8QBu82 3ae0