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THE LAMTIB INITIATIVE:
LEAPFROGGING AUTONOMOUS
MICRO- TECHNOPOLIS IN BOXES
Singapore/Oslo
Tom Preststulen & Partners
November 22 , 2017
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................3 OUR MISSION ............................................................................................................................... 3
THE INITIATIVE ............................................................................................................4 Making an Impact ........................................................................................................................... 4 Enabling Technologies ................................................................................................................... 5 Clean Energy ................................................................................................................................. 5 Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)........................................................................ 7 Health care .................................................................................................................................... 7 Education ....................................................................................................................................... 9 Clean Water ................................................................................................................................. 10 Sanitation .................................................................................................................................... 10 Food Production ........................................................................................................................... 10 Small-Scale, Social Businesses .................................................................................................... 11
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND IMPACT INVESTMENT ........................ 15 Impact Investment and Non Governmental Organisations .............................................................. 15 Flow of Funds .............................................................................................................................. 16 The LAMTIB Process .................................................................................................................... 17 Organizational Structure ............................................................................................................... 18 The Executive Director in the Organizational Structure ................................................................. 19 Lamtib SWOT Analysis ................................................................................................................. 19 TImeline ....................................................................................................................................... 20
CLOSING .................................................................................................................... 21 LAMTIB ........................................................................................................................................ 21 Contacts ...................................................................................................................................... 21
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Introduction
1.6 billion people live below the poverty line, according to the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
(MPI). Around 3 billion people live on less than 2.5 USD a day. With the continuous population growth,
especially in the poorest countries, efficient efforts must be taken towards changing the situation for the
world’s underprivileged. Climate changes are further challenging the already unstable livelihoods of the
poor, creating food scarcity worldwide. In a global economy of supply and demand , the poorest will
eventually lose out, in a market with rising food prices. The LAMTIB Initiative has proven efficient in this
regard, using leapfrogging technologies and training that enable the development and empowerment of
underprivileged.
OUR MISSION
Empowering the underprivileged through
sustainable leapfrogging technologies
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The Initiative
We want to provide qualified off-grid areas with the output from adequate technologies, as well as relevant
training, in order to empower and enable hardworking and motivated people to leapfrog out of poverty. The
concept shows how multiple coordinated parties can decrease poverty, whilst business simultaneously can
open in new markets. The initiative is designed around delivery and functionality of relevant technologies
in converted standardized shipping containers (“boxes”), and is therefore superior in cost/benefit to
alternative solutions. A particular focus is on regions with unexploited natural resources, i.e. suitable for
food production.
This initiative is not based on selling technologies to rural villages, but to make available the output of
same as a practical rapid kick-start.
Although the LAMTIB initiative is generic in its broadly standardized and scalable solutions, hence suitable
for developing countries world-wide, the initial focus is on seven South East Asian, and three South East
African countries. Part of the LAMTIB concept can also be relevant for refugees.
MAKING AN IMPACT
The enabling technologies Energy and Communication, together with Education, Health Care, Sanitation,
Food Production, and Clean Water, will have many positive impacts on local communities, inc luding the
creation of small scale businesses, providing subsequent economic growth and increased livelihood. This
is a sustainable development out of poverty, eventually providing self -sufficiency. Over time, some of the
enablers provided by LAMTIB may no longer be required, in which case, surplus containers/equipment will
be removed by LAMTIB for deployment elsewhere.
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ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
Information and communication technologies combined wi th solar energy will enable the other modules in
the project, such as clean water, health care, food production, education and sanitation. These modules
will further enable small-scale businesses in the local community and create value added through
sustainable growth.
Some of the Initial Partners Enabling the Technologies
The Box Due to access barriers normally related to remote rural communities, the initiative is designed around
delivery and functionality of relevant technologies in converted standardized 20 feet shipping containers,
providing advantages of being climate resistant, adaptable and mobile. The standardization of the boxes,
combined with the flexibility of the technologies, means the program is easily scalable while remaining
controllable. A standardized shipping container is also cost effective and competitive, sustainable and fast
to mobilize.
This initiative requires world class logistics competence: www.elkem.com
CLEAN ENERGY
Electricity is the first main pillar in LAMTIB, ensuring the availability of affordable and deployable
renewable electricity, through solar energy, powering other leapfrogging technologies and modules. In
certain areas, small scale wind turbines can be integrated with the solar box infrastructure. Through long-
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lasting, renewable energy solutions tailored for rural areas, we can secure the first vital step in creating a
sustainable path out of poverty. The REC Box is a portable power station – a photo-voltaic hybrid solution
that mainly uses REC solar panels to produce the bulk of needed electricity, backed up by wind turbines
and emergency diesel generator or fuel cell equipment. The all-in-one solution is designed for mobility,
rapid deployment and durable operation.
http://www.recgroup.com/en
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Proof of Concept
PV Hybrid and WEB RTC container includes tele-
medicine and satellite communication in Philippines
for deployment with the Red Cross in relief work
following the massive devastation from the monster
typhoon in November 2013. After more than two
years the systems exceeds our expectation in terms
of operational reliability, providing electricity for an
entire school.
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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICT)
ICT is the second of the main pillars in LAMTIB. Access to targeted and relevant ICT solutions make it
possible for isolated rural areas to pursue effective and sustainable economic growth by leapfrogging
technological ladders. Global real-time communication (WEB RTC), as provided by the disruptive
communications company Temasys (a multinational group from Singapore, USA and Norway), is key to
help close the knowledge gap amplified by the digital divide between the rich and poor. It further provides
critical opportunities for development through solutions such as diagnostic tele-medicine, knowledge- and
information sharing, online education and training, as well as through production solutions and distribution
channels.
www.temasys.io
HEALTH CARE
The health care situation worldwide is strongly correlated with the level of income. Many remote rural
areas are miles away from the nearest hospital or medical doctor. With diagnostic telemedicine and
communication technologies one can contribute to treating patients, using real -time WEB technologies.
Challenges related to time, costs and distance are overcome, increasing the efficiency of intensive care
and emergency aid. Refrigerated vaccines and most commonly needed medicines are also accessible.
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By resolving the bandwith and connectivity challenges, teams of medical and technology professionals
world-wide, i.a. operating pro-bono for underprivileged, can provide diagnostic and monitoring services
through real time video/audio and data communications.
This platform is capable of supporting 200+ medical monitoring devices and sensors which can be
operated by local nurse-practitioners following initiation. A breakthrough technology medical Tricorder,
which can be connected to phones, will be available in 2017, having the ability o f analyzing 54 bio-markers
that will identify nearly any disease,
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EDUCATION
Online education modules and teaching of targeted skills will empower the local people in remote rural
areas. This will increase the inflow of information and knowledge, both in terms of academic and practical
skill, which are required for further development. The education modules will have a particular focus on
practical training of the community members, aiming at local management and maintenance of the
equipment which comes with the project, as well as the training needed to run locally embedded small -
scale businesses.
There are several high-quality free on-line courses in how to become effective virtual teachers. Free e-
Learning courses can be designed and developed according the specific needs, including how to boost
learner motivation related to the main pillars of values, knowledge and practice.
With technology rapidly changing the world, education will take up different forms with e -Learning tools
facilitating opportunities also for remote locations at different times and in different places. Skills will not
be assessed on paper, but based on students’ performance in the field. Teachers will be able to see
clearly which students need help in which areas.
With the creation of employment and entrepreneurship being an important part of poverty alleviation,
priority learning should be adapted to acquiring useful values and skills which can enhance the
development of the respective communities.
The inclusion in the rapid growth of global e-Commerce, combined with numerous products that can be
derived from remote areas with currently unexploited natural resources, should be part of the e-Learning
programs.
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CLEAN WATER
Children and women usually bear the burden of water collection from the nearest source, which may be
unprotected and often contaminated. Several container- based systems are available enabling treatment of
most types of water sources. Clean water means health, income and education, through the reallocation of
time and resources towards more productive means.
SANITATION
The LAMTIB initiative wants to take part in the fight for universal access to sanitary facilities, by making
use of new and innovative solutions, prioritizing the needs of the population at the core. The importance of
satisfactory sanitary solutions for the world’s growing population concerns nearly all aspects of
development and poverty alleviation. Short-distance sanitation empowers and protects children and
women. Among the 2.5 billion people lacking access to adequate sanitary facilities, 70% live in rural areas.
FOOD PRODUCTION
Food production is a key element in securing sustainable growth and food security for rural farming and
fishing communities. Lack of infrastructure, knowledge and technology leads to diminishing productivity
and depletion of natural resources. Our solutions to food security include:,
Hatchery in Container (HIC) is the starting point for micro sea farms enabling increased
environmentally-friendly production through Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture – IMTA –
replicating local bio-diversities.
Aquaponics is raising fresh-water fish like Tilapia in an integrated system of soil-less plant growing,
achieving multiple synergies, recycling nutrition and filtering water.
Nursery in Container (NIC) is a micro interaction biological agro-forestry field laboratory,
integrating international and national knowledge platforms, and monitoring with specific local
contexts.
Improved output from food production will also consolidate new sources for the world markets.
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SMALL-SCALE, SOCIAL BUSINESSES
Gandhi’s scheme was to start with the villages, to stabilize and enrich their traditional way of life by use of
labor-intensive manufacturing and handicrafts, and to keep the nation’s economic dec ision-making as
decentralized as possible, even if this slowed the pace of breakneck urbanization and industrial mass
production. Production by the masses, rather than mass production.
Social business use market principles, produce goods and services in an innovative way, and typically
reinvest any surpluses back to the enterprise to achieve the social mission.
Through clean energy and communication technology, LAMTIB make opportunities available for the local
community through the creation of small-scale businesses that are exploiting untapped, yet instantly
available local natural resources. In the following, we provide some examples of initiatives that we see
suitable within our geographical areas of operations:
Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA)
Involves cultivating sea-water fed species with extractive species that utilize wastes from aquaculture for
their growth. The idea is that all components involved in the process have a commercial or a re-use value.
The products enabled by this structure, will also have a value added in terms of the labeling, both in an
environmental as well as in a local community perspective. LAMTIB has an IMTA output experimental farm
in the straits of Tannon, Philippines for bivalves and crustaceans, as well as farmin g of macroalgae (Ulva
Reticulata)!
Hatchery in a Container (HIC)
This specialized module is designed to embed a plankton library laboratory, that intensively stock and
cultivate many valuable species of phytoplankton (microalgae) and zooplankton (i.a. co pepods). The
stocks will be brought outside the container to be scaled up into large volumes for subsequent use as
feeds for the relevant larval species. A process that can be safeguarded by 24 \7 real-time monitoring from
RECs control center in Singapore.
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A few of LAMTIB Ongoing Proof of Concepts in Singapore and Philippines
Remote System Control
Remote system control (RSC) allows communication from remote areas to any Internet communicator,
expert laboratories & control centers. The combination of the PV hybrid containers and Real Time ICT,
makes possible the monitoring and control of all installations, enhancing preventive maintenance
implementing corrective actions when required, thus ensuring maximum efficiency. Each box is installed
with RSC connectivity, through which the systems’ configurations and recorded data, as well as real -time
Video streaming, can be accessed 24/7/365. Remote controls are not replacements of local employment,
but provides additional monitoring and integration into larger international systems, anywhere, anytime
where there is internet access.
Each container is tailor made with different types of installations according to local needs .
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Battery Doctor
Recharging car- and other utility batteries instead of throwing them away when they are perceived as no
longer rechargeable is an available technology which can be used to create sm all-scale business. This is
an environmentally-friendly way of increasing the demand at the same time as it is economically beneficial.
About 90% of batteries conceived as dead, can be reconditioned with the right, and fairly simple
technology. At less than half the cost of new batteries, battery doctors provide continued long term life,
whilst contributing to less hazardous waste.
Bamboo House and Other Bamboo Products
Bamboo has countless usages. "A man is born in a bamboo cradle and goes away in a bamboo coffin.
Everything in between is possible with bamboo".1
It is true though, from edible bamboo shoots to construction (building bridges and houses), medicine,
bamboo fabric, farming and hunting tools, baskets, paper to biofuel, it has all been done before. For the
past 10 years, bamboo experts have been experimenting with the multiple uses of bamboo and are still
discovering new applications. Bamboo fiber for the garment and automotive industries, flooring boards,
veneers as thin as 0.2 mm, are just some of many recent examples. Local resources, combined with
conventional and new applications, production methodologies and design, can become valuable for local
producers for numerous export markets.
1 http://www.guaduabamboo.com/uses-of-bamboo/
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Malunggay Products
Malunggay (Moringa Oleifera) is a popular plant known for nutritional value as well as a herbal medicine.
Malunggay is a plant growing in climates such as those found in the Philippines, India and Africa. It is
widely used as vegetable ingredient in cooking, as a herbal medicine for a number of illnesses and many
other practical uses. The value added derives from the process of creating capsules and other
concentrated products, ideal for developed markets seeking nutrition and dietary supplements based on
natural and ethically produced ingredients.
Coconut Products
The coconut palm is grown throughout the tropics for decoration, as well as for its many culinary and non-
culinary uses; virtually every part of the coconut palm can be used by humans in some manner and has
significant economic value. Some examples of application are extraction of oil and coconut water; the husk
of the coconut can be used as a natural scrubber, craft materials and ropes; coconut leaves can be used
to make brooms and thatches.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact Investment
LAMTIB is a contribution to change the inequality in wealth in the world by harnessing the innovation,
technology and platforms of businesses to make a difference. Through positive social and environmental
impacts as well as some financial return in the long run, LAMTIB will empower local rural communities
through a social business approach with an emphasis on the marginalized groups in society which will give
long term sustainable development.
"...Unless industry is to be paralyzed by recurrent revolts
on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria
which are purely not economic.”
R.H.Tawney
IMPACT INVESTMENT AND NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS
Empowering local rural communities with an emphasis on underprivileged people will give long term
sustainability and poverty relief where the effects of the ef forts are clear and tangible. This, together with
multi-national corporations, NGOs and philanthropic trust, some of which have unique experience and
know-how in the field that will benefit all collaborating partners when carrying out our mission to empower
underprivileged through sustainable leapfrogging technologies.
Working with carefully selected motivated partners with the necessary knowledge, is a prerequisite for
sustainable development. We seek partners and supporters like: multi-national corporations, NGOs,
philanthropic institutions, and innovative masters of change. We believe that our policy of multi-religious,
yet free from political agendas, makes us a support-worthy and collaborative initiative, with no hidden
agenda.
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FLOW OF FUNDS
A low level of available local funds in most regions has to be anticipated. The diagram above seeks to
illustrate the main conceptual financial setup of the LAMTIB structure through an existing Transglobal
Lease Trust controlled by LAMTIB. 80-95% of the capital-expenditures and operational costs will be
funded by multiple sources (see also the diagram on page 14), while the local villages will be solicited to
provide for 5-20 % of the costs, according to their respective capacities. Local capital contributions can
consist of municipal, provincial and national support, micro-finance and cash flows deriving from
generation of employment/revenues. From the greater flows of funds, as well as input in terms of human
resources, the LAMTIB Initiative encourage the broad support from all sorts of enabling sources, such as:
• International Organizations
• National Organizations
• Non-Governmental Organizations
• Philanthropists and Human resources
• Business Enterprises
• Knowledge Volunteers
After an initial 3-4 years, revenues from producing protein and other products to domestic and international
markets will create positive cash-flows to be shared.
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Positive Cash Flow
THE LAMTIB PROCESS
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
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THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
A Preco-subsidized administrative cost budget covering up to 10 ties is estimated to US$250,000 per year.
LAMTIB SWOT ANALYSIS
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TIMELINE
2020 Goal:
50 sites in 5 countries each with average investments and 1st
year operating cost of USD 400,000
Critical success factors:
Funding
Human Resources
Measuring progress
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Closing
LAMTIB
Empowering the underprivileged through sustainable leapfrogging technologies
New technologies and adequate expertise allow us to create leapfrogging initiatives that are fast to
mobilize, cost effective, sustainable and scalable. We will connect remote areas and communities to global
networks, provide solutions for ICT, clean energy, clean water, sanitation, health care, education, food
productions, and small scale businesses. LAMTIB’s goal is to empower local people and businesses,
driving the growth of employment, and create sustainable paths out of poverty.
CONTACTS
Tom Preststulen
Founder
(Owner of Preco – Norwegian family investment office, est. 1978, Managing Partner of Elkem)
Email:
Telephone:
+47 9822 0500 (Norway)
+65 9731 6000 (Singapore)
Or
Vanessa Oh
Email:
Telephone:
+65 6880 2792
Or
Soe Thet San
Managing Director
LAMTIB Social Enterprise Myanmar
Email:
Telephone:
+95 97 9312 1749