ETV presentation for investors and BiD challenge.

• 1. Bariloche

2. Emprendimientos de Tecnologas para la Vida LVT Life Technologies Ventures Bariloche Patagonia Argentina

• • Our Mission

• • • To develop, produce, an diffuse sustainable technologies for human development, being ourselves a sustainable enterprise

3. Our core competencies - 1

• LTV is an spin off of Fundacin Gente Nueva,

• FGN is a 20 years old NGO whose main field of action is the education of poor people. Now FGN has ten schools, from kindergarten thru high school, including technical ones, for children and adults. Enrollment in 2006 is over 1,800 .

• • • We have a deep understanding of our target markets

• FGN is well known, and highly respected,among the community organizations in Argentina and has had for many years a strong policy of networked action .

• • • We belong to a strong network in the community organizations we target

4. Our core competencies - 2

• Many members in FGN and in LTV staffwork, or worked, in the scientific and high tech sector. Bariloche,the home town of LTV,is high tech pole

• • • We have in house technical expertise and collaborative agreements with tech institutes.

• Our partner Fundacin Gente Nueva has a strong experience in hands on job training, through cooperation agreements with them we will trainboth our franchisees and their manpower needs .

• • • We know how to train people with the profile required.

• We have in our team both operations and project management expertise

• • • We can manage start up and growth

5. Management team Gustavo Genusso Born in 1960, Gustavo got in 1986 his M Sc in Nuclear Engineering at Instituto Balseiro and worked there as a professor and in development technology of low power nuclear reactors at the Bariloche Atomic Center for fifteen years. He beganworking as a volunteer in poor communities in 1982, when the group became Fundacion Gente Nueva en 1989, he was one of the leaders of the new organization. In 2001 he was elected an Ashoka Fellow, and left his scientific career to work full time with FGN, being since this date the CEO.Gustavo is an active partner in manyCivil Society Organizations, and a counsel for local and national government and for international organizations. In 2005 he received the UBS award to the social entrepreneur. Gustavo is father of three girls, two of them university students. 6. Management team Roberto Escard Born in 1939, Robertograduate as an Industrial Engineer in 1964 at the Buenos Aires University He has graduate studies in both Science and Technology Policy and in Science Communication.He taught Applied Statistics and Operations Management for 25 years at the University and was an specialistin manpower training. Roberto worked as a management consultant, then as Industrial Engineering Manager in a big public utility and quit in 1985 to begin his own company in computers network infrastructure. He sold his participation in the company in 2001 to work as a consultant in project management and nowis the Director of the Society of Industrial Engineers Entrepreneurship Center. Robertohas been involved in social work since he was 15 years old: The application of technology for human development is his main interest from both from the theoretical and practical aspects.Roberto is married after 40 years, has three grown up children and five grandchildren. 7.

• History has shown that technology alone cannot solve human problems.

• The marriage of technological and social innovation is indispensable.

• We believe that commercial markets are an effective and efficient way to spread new healthful technologies.

• Our goal is to increase andimprove access to water, energy and communications for poor rural and peri urban peoplethough successful pilot projects

• Over the medium term, we believe they will form the backbone of a template that can be adapted to many types of communities and technologies and scaled up to have lasting results on a global scale.

8. Our business model

• Our approach is to develop a network of partnerships that support local NGOs and entrepreneurs so they can deliver products and services at an affordable price.

• The partnership, a diversity network include scientists,tech institutes, universities, financial institutions and commercial companies.

• Our activities include identifying needs,developing products, services and markets, training local entrepreneurs, troubleshooting manufacturing,distribution, installation andmaintenanceproblems, and providing access to financing to both producers and consumers

9. Our business model Potential users Geographical or ethnical communities 10. Our business model Authorized representative Local ONG With strongcommunity ties 11. Our business model 12. Our business model 13.

• Rural and small communities water and sanitation systems

• Renewable energy systems Energy efficient homes.

• Information and Communications Technologies . Telephone and Internet access

Our main areas of action 14. Rural and small communities water and sanitation systems 15. Massive diffusion of a simple, proven and affordable technology Rope Pumps 16. What is a rope pump? The pumping elements of aropepump are pistons and a endless rope, which pull the water tothesurface through a pumping pipe made of plastic. The rotation of the wheel, moved by the handle, pulls the rope and the pistons. 17. We will sell water systems built around Rope Pumps 18. Our primary markets

• Low income people who obtains water from wells with rope and bucket" or with hand pumps that must be replaced: households and communities, for drinking and sanitation.

• Small farmers, who obtains water from wells,for irrigation and cattle watering

19. At households and community centers 20. We will sell

• Home kit:

• • Rope pump

• • Water Tank

• • PVC Piping

• • Kitchen sink kit

• • Bathroom Kit

• Installation thru authorized installers

21. Small farmers, who obtains water from wells 22. We will sell

• Project

• Irrigation kit:

• • Rope pump

• • Water Tank

• • Piping: Mains and dripers

• • Accessories: Filters

• Installation thru authorized installers

• Agricultural advise (thru partners)

23. Micro drip irrigation system 24. 25. Cattle watering

• When water availability or dry seasons limits the herds

• More water means increased meat and milk production

26. Other Water systems products

• Water analysis services

• Water filters

• Arsenic removal systems

• Kits for water bacteriological analysis

• Rain collect systems

27. Renewable energy systemsEnergy efficient homes . 28. Wood efficiente cooking and heating stoves 29. Energy efficient homes

• Weatherization will enable low-income families to permanently reduce their energy bills by making their homes more energy efficient.

• FGN has run a successful pilot project

30. Information and Communications TechnologiesTelephone and Internet access 31. Our aim:

• To provide phone and Internet access to isolated rural population, communities, and schools thru IP wireless networks build up from inexpensive off the shelfcomponents and first class engineering.

• To work in strong cooperation with content and service providers ( telephony, telemedicine, e-learning)

32. Our business partners

• TheBariloche Atomic Center, is the project leader and main partner inour ICT bussines area.

• We were born as an spin off of Fundacin Gente Nueva. An irrevocable trust owns the 50% of LTV, whose benefits are donated to FGN.

AMANCOa company with a strong CSR compromise, is our main business partner and supplierfor water systemsWe have a co branding agreement with them Centro Atmico Bariloche 33. Marketing

• Key elements of our market strategy are:

• • A careful choice of partners, both NGOS and installers

• • The building of a strong brand image

• • A proactive technical assistance and a strict quality control all over the chain

34. Marketing

• Local NGOs and authorized installers will be our main channel of difussion

• We will produce high quality promotional and technical videos and train NGOs promoters

• Demo installations, preferably at community places, as rural schools and health care centers, will be alsokey promotional tools.

• We foresee a rapid mouth to mouth" creation of demand once the initial installations are made, as previous experiences had shown.

35. Marketing

• Sales financing

• • End user,mainly thru microcredits

• • Charities adquisitions, for communitarian and individual users

• • Governement, national, state, local,programs

• LTV will not directly finance sales, but will help:

• • Obtaining seed capital for microcredit organisations.

• • With lobby and technical assistance to obtain funds from public and international organisations (UNDP, WB, IADB)

36. Second generation products

• Advanced windpump

• A windmill designed to work with rope pumps

• Medium high purchase power market

• Main use: cattle watering

• • A world class product.

37. Future products portfolio (Short medium term)

• Energy efficient houses and school buildings.

• Distributed and low power electricity generation.

• House building products

38. Thank You !!