We are pleased to invite you to WISIONS upcoming webinar entitled
How Can Open Source Technologies Accelerate Energy Access For People Off The Grid?
Register now and mark your calendar for 11 AM CET on 26 February 2019!
Open source, open innovation, open collaboration: most of us access information daily based on an ‘open’ approach.
Open source technology – which emerged as a radical new approach to software – benefits from a collaborative and transparent approach.
It allows people to adapt and improve technology according to their needs. An open source approach can progress more rapidly thanks to the crowd-based model that encourages experimentation.
Open source technology is flexible, and it is sometimes even more reliable.
But how can this revolution in “openness” benefit people who need access to energy?
In the case of energy access, open source technology allows people to adapt energy-related hardware, software, and data more easily to their local conditions, potentially saving both time, effort, and money in the process.
The flexibility offered by open source technology means that people are not wedded to proprietary technology if they need to adapt to new conditions.
Despite these benefits, obstacles to open source technology also exist.
In this webinar we will learn how energy practitioners are applying open source to solve concrete challenges to energy access.
We will explore the possibilities and the difficulties of using open source technologies for advancing SDG7.
Specific Objectives:
- To showcase how energy practitioners (and practitioners’ networks) are applying the open source model to SDG7
- To understand the potential of open source technology for energy access
- To identify the difficulties or limitations of deploying open source technology in the energy access space
Whether you are a donor, a non-profit organisation, a researcher, or a business, join us and share your insights into the potentials of open source technologies – and your fresh ideas.
This will be an interactive webinar with polls and opportunities for Q&A!
Register now!
Speakers:
Dan Frydman, Green Empowerment / Hydro Empowerment Network
Luiz Vila, Wind Empowerment
Vijay Bhopal, Connected Energy / Open Energy Access Alliance
Martin Jäger, Libre Solar / Open Energy Access Alliance
Moderator: Molly Hurley-Depret