The document summarizes the mission and business model of LTV Life Technologies Ventures Bariloche, an organization that develops sustainable technologies to improve human development. Their goal is to increase access to water, energy, and communications for rural and peri-urban communities through successful pilot projects and partnerships. Key areas of focus include water and sanitation systems using rope pumps, renewable energy systems, and information and communication technologies. They plan to sell technology packages and provide support through local authorized representatives and NGO partners to disseminate the technologies affordably at scale.

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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 began working 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 many Civil 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 Escardó Born in 1939, Roberto graduate 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 specialist in 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 now is the Director of the Society of Industrial Engineers Entrepreneurship Center. Roberto has 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.

9. Our business model Potential users Geographical or ethnical communities

10. Our business model Authorized representative Local ONG With strong community ties

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12. Our business model

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 a rope pump are pistons and a endless rope, which pull the water to the surface 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

19. At households and community centers

21. Small farmers, who obtains water from wells

23. Micro drip irrigation system

27. Renewable energy systems Energy efficient homes .

28. Wood efficiente cooking and heating stoves

30. Information and Communications Technologies Telephone and Internet access

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