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e nergypedia by energypedia UG ( haftungsbeschänkt ). About energypedia. 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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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About energypedia
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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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