Energypedia is a wiki-based platform for collaborative knowledge exchange on renewable energy and energy access issues in the context of development cooperation. Energypedia’s central objective is to promote and support the exchange of knowledge by providing links among knowledge bases worldwide and foster collaboration in order to ensure that knowledge gaps are successfully filled by capable organizations and individuals. The platform www.energypedia.info provides tools for stakeholders engaged in the renewable energy sector to collaborate, create and share knowledge and practical experience. Energypedia currently includes over 1,600 free articles, contributed by the growing community of more than 3,500 registered users. All registered user can easily create new content, contribute to existing articles and share content. http://www.leonardo-energy.org/node/157896

1. Fungai Cecilia Sandamu

2. 1. About Energypedia

3. • 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

4. 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
History
2007
2011
2010
Present
2012

5. 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?

6. 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

7. •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

8. 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

9. 2. The Wiki

10. 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

11. Connects Content
• Collecting & storing knowledge
• Publishing knowledge
• Accessing knowledge
How energypedia Works

12. Connects Content
• Collecting & storing knowledge
• Publishing knowledge
• Accessing knowledge
Connects People
• Groups
• Discussions
• Message boards
How energypedia Works

13. Connects Content
• Collecting & storing knowledge
• Publishing content
• Accessing content
Connects People
• Groups
• Discussions
• Message Boards
Knowledge communities
How energypedia Works

14. 3. Growth & Targets

15. 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

16. Reach
Energypedia Penetration
(Internet Users)
Realize a strong and steady growth
in readership.

17. 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
Increase the number of articles
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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Thank you.

22. 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