Fungai Cecilia Sandamu

1. About Energypedia

• A free information platform on renewable energy & energy efficiency topics in the context of development cooperation.

• A Wiki* • Enables many authors to rapidly create content using wiki text • Any registered user can create and revise articles • Connecting knowledge, expertise, communities, cross-cutting

initiatives and partner relationships

Energypedia users get free access to the following features: • Relevant clean energy information and expertise • Energy portals • Discussions • Internal message board • Groups • Event calendar • Monthly newsletter

• Non-profit organisation based in Eschborn, Germany

What is Energypedia?

*Wiki is a web application which allows users to add, modify, or delete content in a collaboration with others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Internal Project Wiki • Developed within the Dutch-German energy partnership Energising Development (EnDev), implemented by

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH as an internal tool for knowledge and project management.

Birth of energypedia

• EnDev wiki relaunched as a separate workspace under the name "energypedia". • energypedia could then be used by all GIZ staff

Energypedia goes Public

• Public users able to register, read and contribute content

energypedia UG Nonprofit Founded • Founded as not-for-profit organization, independent from GIZ in April 2012

Today energypedia counts more than 1,600 articles and more than 3,600 registered users worldwide

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Energy poverty and development • 1.3 billion people lack access to any form of

electricity and 2.7 billion people still cook over open fires

• Securing access to sustainable energy services for developing countries is a significant challenge for sustainable development

Energy is an enabler and powers opportunities for environmental, social and economic development

First hand knowledge on renewable energy technologies in developing countries often only exists locally or in fragments

• Difficult for individuals to access this information

• Necessary to facilitate and expand diffusion of theses technologies in developing countries through practical knowledge sharing

Why Energy?

Vision • A world of borderless and unrestricted knowledge access

and exchange on renewable energy and energy efficiency issues, in which all people have access to sustainable energy services.

Mission Statement To contribute to addressing the question of how universal access to sustainable energy services for all can be achieved through: • Leveraging Web 2.0 technologies to connect knowledge,

expertise, communities, cross-cutting initiatives and strengthen partner relationships to expand the diffusion of energy information

• Fostering global collaborative knowledge exchange on renewable energy and energy access issues, and

• Creating the right environment and providing useful tools for stakeholders engaged in the energy sector to collaborate and share knowledge and practical experience.

Our Approach – Making Knowledge Available

•Free clean energy information to use and share •Participation open to all •Open source technology •Community written and curated work •Relevant, accurate and verifiable information •Foster innovation •Diversity is valued •Remain independent

Our Values

Funding: • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) • Energypedia Consult

We work in partnership with:

• Dutch-German Partnership Energising Development (EnDev) • GIZ Poverty-oriented Basic Energy Services (HERA) • GIZ Technology Cooperation in the Energy Sector on behalf of BMZ • GIZ Energy Policy in Development Cooperation on behalf of BMZ • Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) • International Renewable Energy Learning Partnership (IRELP) • World Bank Public-Private Partnership in Infrastructure Resource Centre for Contracts, Laws and Regulation (PPPIRC) • Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) • Leonardo ENERGY (LE) • Microenergy Systems Research Group at the Technical University of Berlin (MES) • Open Energy Information (OpenEI) • Renewables Academy AG (RENAC) • University of Hohenheim Institute of Agricultural Engineering • Universidade Pedagógica Mozambique

Donors & Partners

2. The Wiki

Web 2.0: • Users are not passive consumers • Users create, edit and share content • Direct user interaction

Open source software as its engine • MediaWiki • Semantic MediaWiki extension to ease and

combine collaborative authoring with semantic technology

How energypedia Works

Connects Content • Collecting & storing knowledge • Publishing knowledge • Accessing knowledge

How energypedia Works

Connects Content • Collecting & storing knowledge • Publishing knowledge • Accessing knowledge

Connects People

• Groups • Discussions • Message boards

How energypedia Works

Connects Content • Collecting & storing knowledge • Publishing content • Accessing content

Connects People

• Groups • Discussions • Message Boards

Knowledge communities

How energypedia Works

3. Growth & Targets

Key Facts 16 286

Pages

1 636 Articles

4 196 Media

3 621 Registered Users

50 Active Users

2 000 Edits per Month

20 000 Readers per Month

0 Cost to Use FREE

Reach

Energypedia Penetration (Internet Users)

Realize a strong and steady growth in readership.

Content & Quality

Wind Solar Bioenergy Improved Cooking

Hydro Grid Impacts

Financing & Funding

Productive Use Biogas Country Energy

Situation

Biofuel Mobility Powering Agriculture

Solid Biomass

RE Project Resource Centre

Fuel Prices Database Cooking Energy Compendium

Pico PV Database

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Ensure information is relevant, accurate and of high quality

Encourage global participation via partnerships

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Energypedia Community Participation

Content Pages Files Registered Users Active Users

Community Participation

* Active users are those who make more than five edits per month.

Build a healthy, global community

Increase and strengthen the diversity of the editing community

Technological Innovation

• Continue to develop and improve the technological and operating platform

• Ensure the infrastructure is secure and stable, to guarantee permanent availability

• Activate creative collaboration and practical knowledge sharing to spark

innovation and opportunities that advance the cause of access to sustainable energy for all

Foster technical and social innovations

Explore, learn and contribute! Together we can all achieve more. • Find like-minded professionals who share our vision of universal energy access

and who are willing to make their knowledge publicly available.

Get Involved

• Engage in discussions and thematic groups with our growing community of practitioners, experts and other interested stakeholders.

• Become a member of an energypedia group that interests you.

• Join us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to ask questions or help someone else. • Donate

Thank you.

Contact: Fungai Cecilia Sandamu (Energy & Development Consultant) gemeinnützige energypedia UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 30-34 65760 Eschborn T: +49 (0) 6196 / 2029722 E: info@energypedia.info Registergericht: Frankfurt am Main Eintragungs-Nr. HRB 96064 Sitz: Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 30-34, 65760 Eschborn Geschäftsführung: Robert Heine