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Revision as of 11:40, 15 March 2013
Overview
During the management and transfer of knowledge between diverse groups, such as academics and practicitioners, the North and South, enterprises and investors, companies and clients, and even between diverse academic disciplines, one must find a means to understanding.
Multi-stakeholder interaction requires bridging communication borders with diverse methods and tools that either translate or determine common languages, and eventually turn theory into practice.
Challenges:
Like many other processes, knowledge management and transfer is plagued with a myriad of challenges including the lack of incentives, even knowledge and communication that are foundational to communication capacities. Other challenges ranges from competition for, and confidentiality of information shared. Lastly, there is always the challenge in discerning what information is most pertinent to whom.
Strategies:
In developing communication channels and tools, is the need for strategies. Understanding what and where the right forums are for knowledge management transfer can help agents differentiate between explicit and implicit knowledge. Strategies may also help motivate practitioners and academics to contribute to knowledge sharing.
Offgrid Access System in South Asia (OASYS)
Debajit Palit, The Energy & Resources Institute, New Delhi, India
Two multi-stakeholder projects are most relevant as they demonstrate micro energy systems that are closer linked to communities at a local level.
OASYS introduced business models for decentralized off-grid electricity generation in developing countries. OASYS started in 2009, with the motivation of researching technical aspects and general cost-effectiveness.
The research firstly discovered to main knowledge gaps:
- Lack of knowledge regarding Business Models and institutional arrangements for delivery
- Limited or lack of experience in project scale-up and project sustainability
As a result, two questions arose to explore criteria relevant to the aforementioned knowledge gaps:
- Are there cost-effective and reliable off-grid electricity supply solutions that can meet the present & future needs, are socially acceptable, institutionally viable and environmentally desirable?’
- Do these local solutions have the scaling-up and replication potentials and can these solutions be brought to the mainstream for wider electricity access in the developing world?”
Geographical Scope & Analysis Dimensions
Research Team & Partners
- University of Dundee/De Montfort University
- School of Environment & Development, Manchester University
- Edinburgh Napier University
- The Energy and Resources Institute
- TERI University
- UK Research Council
- DFID
Research Objectives
The Solar Transitions Project
Human Diversity as a Success Factor
Sub-Factors
- practical details and social organization of village scale power supply
- socio-economic impacts and people’s interests and demands
- implementation and management strategies, and lastly
- relevant support mechanisms and barriers at state and national levels.
Challenges of Knowledge Management
Energising Development (EnDev), Gunnar Wegner, GIZ
Successes and Barriers to Knowledge Management & Transfer
‘Wait, I have it somewhere in my mailbox’
‘The lightening-struck inverter’
‘EnDev’s next super failure’
Challenges
Connecting Knowldege for a Sustainable Future
Benjamin Rebenich, energypedia UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
On energypedia.info everyone can create and revise articles on technologies, approaches and projects related to renewable energy and energy efficiency. Energypedia promotes knowledge and experience exchange to achieve universal access to sustainable energy for all people.As a wiki (stands for a website designed to enable anyone who accesses it to easily contribute or modify content), it is open and free for everyone in the internet, but does not require any computer language.
Visions & Missions
Challenges & Opportunities
Challenges of Knowledge Exchange
Further Information
References
The article documents the proceedings of the session “Knowledge Management and Transfer for Microenergy Systems - Crossing Borders Worldwide" of the international conference “Micro Perspectives for Decentralized Energy Supply”, February 27 - March 1, 2013.
In cooperation with energypedia
Session facilitator: Jonas van der Straeten, Postgraduate Program Microenergy Systems