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Website: kopernik.infoTwitter: @thekopernik

Toshi Nakamura, Co-Founder & CEO, Kopernik4 June 2012

Annual Asia-Pacific Dialogue on

Clean Energy, Governance, Policy, and Regulation
http://www.kopernik.info/thekopernik


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Solar light and water purifiers

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Fuel efficient cookstove and phone charger

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Life changing

technologies

People in

developing

countries

Users can'taffordthe technologies upfront

Manufacturers can't reach users in remoteareas (where most of

the poor is)

No way to introduceproductsand foster their adoption

Many great technologies exist, but are not reaching the people who need

them

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Kopernik connects Manufacturers of Technology, Local Organizations and

Funders to bring them to the last mile

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Local organizationsManufacturers of

Technology

The Technology

Marketplace

Funders


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How Kopernik works

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Kopernik also conducts Technology Fair to complement on-line match making

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Kopernik establishes creative distribution mechanism for simple technologies

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Obstetric kits

in Haiti

Cooking stoves

in Indonesia

Solar lanterns in

Indonesia

DIY Charcoal in

Kenya

Water purifier

in Uganda

Drip irrigation

in India

Solar lanterns,

hearing aid and

battery kits in

Japan

Solar lanterns, Rollable

water drum, Water

purification system and

cooking stoves in Timor-

Leste

Hearing aid in

Vietnam

Solar lanterns in

Nigeria

Solar lanterns in

China

Since our launch in 2010, weve reached over 74,000 people in 11 countries

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Solar lanterns in

Indonesia


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Impact Assessment and Feedback Collection

13.95

0.85

Before After

94% reduction

Average monthly expenditure on lighting

(n=48): Oecusse, Timor-Leste

USD

Source: Kopernik/Centro Feto Survey 2010-2011

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User feedback on the cookstove

Indonesia


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Challenges to getting them to those in need, and policy/regulatory/legal

implications

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Economic Social

Political/regulatory Technological

High price of the

products

High distribution

cost that increases

the product price

even higher

Lack of awareness

on the issues, e.g.

Indoor air

pollution

Clean water

Lack of trust by the

communities to the

new products

High and often

unpredictable

customs and

import duty

Uneven quality of

products Lack of impact data

on the products

Small number of

productsfrom the

developing

countries

Initial subsidy to

lower the product

and/or distribution

cost

Provision of

products on

consignment

Lower custom and

import duty for

select clean energy

products

A nation wide

awareness raising

campaign

Leveraging trusted

community based

organizations for

product

distribution

Creation of

technology

evaluation and

impact

Support to the local

inventors

Support to local

universities to

nurture innovation

from the developing

world


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Website: kopernik.infoTwitter: @thekopernik

Annual Asia-Pacific Dialogue on

Clean Energy, Governance, Policy, and Regulation

Toshi Nakamura, Co-Founder & CEO, Kopernik4 June 2012
http://www.kopernik.info/thekopernik

toshihiro nakamura - spreading technology improving lives

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