Millie B. RadojevicInnovation unit, BRC@ElaMi5

Few things

• What is the direction of policy making: top-down or down-up?

• Rethinking UNDP project design: Few take-aways from global innovation meeting in Montenegro 

• Citizen-driven methods of innovations in energy  • Alternate modes of data collection, monitoring,

communication• K&I team services

‘Nations talk, cities act- do policies come from the top (theory) or bottom (practice)?’

Development 2.0- Emerging trends• Business model of development has changed

• Many new, agile players in the sector

• Collective, distributed intelligence –> self-organisation

• Cost of collecting data dramatically reduced

• Low cost, high speed (pilot-mainstream in 1-2 weeks)                                        • Prototyping= understanding relationship between cause and effect

• Mobile is the killer app

• Emerging markets as source of innovation Source: @gquaggiotto

Smart citizens- applying lessons of Web 2.0 to energy innovations (gaming, rapid feedback loops, social interaction, 

tech and non-tech policy enabled designs)

THE NO-SILOS APPROACH TO PROJECT PLANNING

ProjectOpportunity

(idea or donor driven)

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Lab

• Research• Partners outreach• Social media/comms• Open call for ideas

Prototype

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Ideas

Does the solution exist already?

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Yes ‘Lab light’: import, test and enhance existing

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‘Lab heavy’: develop solutions from scratch

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Equity based crowdfunding for sustainable energy

Empowering communities to collect data on what’s actually happening in their environment

Smart meters but smart for who- companies or users? 

Designing and testing energy systems around energy user 

Challenge prizes: scaling community led energy projects

Social pressure

Social norms

Does a type of messenger affect heating-related decisions?

Does info display affect shopping behavior?

Energy whitegood label trial: National trial with large retailer (John Lewis) to test whether monetary lifetime running cost labels on whitegood appliances helps improve the uptake of more efficient appliances, as opposed to simply displaying standard energy efficiency labels in kWh. Trial is set to start mid December and run to May/June

Energy advice trial: Large (1,500 home) trial to test whether receiving heating advice from a trusted messenger (boiler engineer) helps tenants in social housing use their heating more effectively during the winter. Trial started in October and is set to finish in March 2014

Data collection, monitoring, communication of results

Smart meters but smart for who- companies or users? 

SMS data collection

Narratives/Storytelling- M&E, comms, weak signals

Narratives/Storytelling- M&E, comms, weak signals

CO Portfolio Screening:Entry points for innovation

• Expertise referral, horizon scanning• Partnership development

• Running challenges• Social media intelligence• R&D, Rapid prototyping