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</div><div>EnDev is an impact oriented initiative that includes partners from the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Australia, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Since 2005, 18 beneficiary countries include 18 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia have received funds in annual funding competitions. The project also includes a monitoring system to track the mid- to long-term success of implemented projects.<br/></div><div><br/></div> | </div><div>EnDev is an impact oriented initiative that includes partners from the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Australia, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Since 2005, 18 beneficiary countries include 18 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia have received funds in annual funding competitions. The project also includes a monitoring system to track the mid- to long-term success of implemented projects.<br/></div><div><br/></div> | ||
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− | On [[ | + | On [[Main_Page|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.<br/></div> |
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.<br/> | 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.<br/> | ||
− | <div>As a project that grew out of [[ | + | <div>As a project that grew out of [[Energising_Development_(EnDev)|EnDev]] in 2007, energypedia is accessed by users all over the world. Recently in 2012, the project ownership and management has transitioned to a new NGO.<br/></div><div>Energypedia is an interactive wiki that allows direct user interaction. While the tool cannot solve problems, it is useful as a knowledge sharing tool that may encourage the exchange for developing, improving or creating innovative solutions. The strengths of the tool go beyond collecting and storing information, and also dynamically link relevant people, discussions, and themes. Virtual knowledge communities are created as a result, and provide experts and audiences to relevant topics and challenges. Since the authors are also the audiences to the topics, feedback and quality monitoring is supposedly self-fulfilling in the long-term as participants will be motivated by the benefits of sharing and feedback to voluntarily continue contributions.</div><div></div><div></div> |
== Visions & Missions<br/> == | == Visions & Missions<br/> == | ||
<div>Energypedia envisions a world of free knowledge exchange and mutual learning on renewable energies in which everyone has access to sustainable energy sources. Accessible, cleaner and more efficient technologies will foster human development and environmental protection worldwide. In accordance with this vision and following the [http://www.sustainableenergyforall.org UN Sustainable Energy For All Initiative], energypedia pursues the goal of providing universal access to modern energy services by strengthening a borderless global knowledge exchange.</div><div></div><div>Consequently, '''energypedia's mission''' is to become a living platform on renewable energies and energy efficiency in the development sector by offering relevant, high-quality information and user-friendly knowledge sharing tools to all people engaged in the provision of sustainable energy services.</div><div></div><div><br/></div> | <div>Energypedia envisions a world of free knowledge exchange and mutual learning on renewable energies in which everyone has access to sustainable energy sources. Accessible, cleaner and more efficient technologies will foster human development and environmental protection worldwide. In accordance with this vision and following the [http://www.sustainableenergyforall.org UN Sustainable Energy For All Initiative], energypedia pursues the goal of providing universal access to modern energy services by strengthening a borderless global knowledge exchange.</div><div></div><div>Consequently, '''energypedia's mission''' is to become a living platform on renewable energies and energy efficiency in the development sector by offering relevant, high-quality information and user-friendly knowledge sharing tools to all people engaged in the provision of sustainable energy services.</div><div></div><div><br/></div> | ||
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− | <div>Tools such as [[ | + | <div>Tools such as [[Main_Page|energypedia.info]] will fill knowledge gaps. Even organizations such as TERI have similar sites that store information. Presenters predict future challenges in the merging of the different wikis, and the long-term maintenance of quality knowledge stored on the sites. Additionally, some current challenges may still resonate in the futures such as the attitude towards sharing knowledge. Particularly among private firms or project where there is a lot of investment into preparing and developing the knowledge and information, there is limited desire to make publicly what has been discovered. Some private companies may agree to sharing information with individual agreements as is already done so with GIZ. On the contrary, some private firms may share information, and also take advantage of the public site to advertise and promote.<br/></div><div></div><div>There are also pressures to publish in the academic community. Some presenters viewed this as an aspect requiring change. Other opinions shared illustrated the wiki as a new portal and publishing opportunity most attractive to students. In general, there was an agreement that wikis require more integration in not only the private sector but also the academic sector. Additionally, there is interest on making the wiki accessible in other languages than English, including French and Spanish. |
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Session facilitator: Jonas van der Straeten, [http://www.umweltpruefung.tu-berlin.de/postgraduate_program_microenergysystems/menue/welcome/parameter/en/ Postgraduate Program Microenergy Systems], TU Berlin<br/> | Session facilitator: Jonas van der Straeten, [http://www.umweltpruefung.tu-berlin.de/postgraduate_program_microenergysystems/menue/welcome/parameter/en/ Postgraduate Program Microenergy Systems], TU Berlin<br/> | ||
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Revision as of 13:11, 14 August 2014
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, TU Berlin
Documentation: Robin Chang, Joint International Master in Sustainable Development, Universität Leipzig
Documentation: Felix Leyva