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About energypedia

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• Wiki* platform on the Internet

• Offering free access to expert information • On renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries

• Everyone can read, write, edit, and disseminate articles on energypedia

* Wiki = Software for web sites allowing users not only to read but also to directly edit its content online.

• Internal project wikiDeveloped within the Dutch-German energy partnership Energising Development (EnDev),

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

• energypedia was bornEnDev wiki was re-launched as a separate workspace under the now known name

"energypedia". From there on energypedia can be read and edited by registered users.

• Public launch of energypediaEnergypedia becomes public. Energypedia can be read by unregistered users and its contents

can be found via internet research.

• energypedia becomes independentFounded as not-for-profit organization, independent from GIZ. Starts working in own office in

April 2012.

Today, energypedia counts more than 790 articles and 2,290 users worldwide

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Key facts*

• > 790 articles

• > 2,300 registered users• every 5th user is from Africa• every 7th user is from Asia

• GIZ projects, energy experts, students, consultants

• up to 15,000 unique visitors per month

*March 2013

About energypedia

• Being a living platform of knowledge on renewable energies and energy efficiency with regard to development cooperation.

• By providing the opportunity to share knowledge, experience and lessons learnt with everyone, energypedia helps to improve energy access all around the world.

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About energypedia

Our Vision

•world of free knowledge exchange and mutual learning on renewable energies

•sustainable energy access for all.

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About energypedia

Our Mission

•become a living platform on renewable energies

•offering relevant information and

•user-friendly knowledge sharing tools

• Users ≠ passive consumers

• Users create, edit and disseminate content

• Direct user interaction

• Famous applications:

• Social networking sites (e.g. Facebook)

• File sharing sites (e.g. YouTube, Flickr)

• Wikis (e.g. Wikipedia)

• Successful because all users can contribute

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How energypedia works

“Knowledge is power”►less and less true in a world of widespread, inexpensive

communications

►knowledge spreads too quickly to hold power for long

►rapid innovation makes “old” knowledge quickly obsolete

“Knowledge sharing is power”►exchange fosters development, improvement and innovation

Wiki is (only) a knowledge sharing tool– it won’t solve old knowledge management problems

Knowledge sharing is power

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►connects content• collecting & storing knowledge• publishing knowledge• accessing knowledge

How energypedia works

energypedia

►connects content• collecting & storing knowledge• publishing knowledge• accessing knowledge

►connects people• groups• discussions

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How energypedia works

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energypedia

►connects content• collecting & storing knowledge• publishing knowledge• accessing knowledge

►connects people• groups• discussions

►connects content with people

(knowledge communities)

How energypedia works

Creating content is absolutely easy

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►People like to share knowledgeMore than 80% of all web users who create content, stated “Joy of sharing with others on interesting topics” as a reason for participation*

*(IBM/ZEM Study “Innovation in den Medien 2008”)

►People need the right audience• Context: People need to know who needs one’s knowledge for what

• Motivation: positive feedback from others is important

-> promotes our status as experts

►People only share voluntarily, no one can ever be forced

Why do people share?

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Challenges of web-based knowledge transfer

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• Creating the right context / audiencerather same interests than same disciplines

• Encouraging feedback / communicationoffering user-friendly tools (messaging, discussions, groups, evaluation)

• Increasing the communityreaching the critical mass via public relations (90-9-1 rule)

• Ensuring qualityquality standards, wiki gardening, quality weeks, encouraging users

• Financing measuresfundraising & affiliated consultancy firm

• Measuring impacts / success

Opportunities of web-based knowledge transfer

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• Accessibilityfrom almost everywhere (increasing Internet distribution)

• Cross-border and interdisciplinaryconnecting people and experiences all around the world

• Transparentwho writes what

• Efficient one document version; less emails; linking to information instead of producing it again and again; search functions; databases

• Easy-to-use and up-to-dateinformation can easily be updated by everyone

• Wiki offers great opportunities but also faces challenges

• Success requires the right cultural, technological and organizational conditions

• Wiki is only a knowledge sharing tool

• Goal is free knowledge on renewable energies to accelerate their distribution and to reduce energy poverty

• We need a cultural change

from “Which information shall we make accessible”

to “Which information has to be secured?”

Conclusion

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