Engagement Platform
Engagement Platform?
EPIC Africa’s Transition Arena sits at the heart of knowledge creation as it brings together stakeholders from e.g. government, civil society, and business to dialogues on how to find spatial, and temporal WEF-optimal strategies. In essence, when, where, and what to invest to enable universal access to modern energy, while at the same time promoting economic growth and sustainable development. Based on their input, the Long-term WEF model for temporal and geospatially specific investment optimization and planning is developed to allow for detailed, model-based integrated assessment and optimization (section 1.3.3). Whereas such a model can produce output results that can serve as the basis for continued dialogue on sustainable development, it is primarily for the system analysts to run. Its complexity and level of detail are not fit-for-purpose for wider stakeholder uptake and use. Therefore, EPIC Africa will build on this detailed model to form a digital engagement tool for non-expert modelers. This tool will be less complex and detailed, but contain the most important stakeholder-identified dynamics and modules, and be packaged into a suitable graphical user interface (GUI).
- The architecture of the EPIC Africa Digital Engagement Tool will be created employing co-creation among academic institutes, and stakeholders (power pools, utilities, energy planners and policy makers on local, national and regional level).electricity access design considering WEF nexus interactions through CLEWs
- Via a series of structured, interactive workshops with stakeholders, the detailed specification of requirements on the tool are deduced and documented. The work will be introduced to stakeholders in a first workshop via engagement sessions using existing tools: TEMBA (high level of aggregation for national electricity supply model, including transnational exchange) and the Global Electrification Platform (geospatial least-cost electrification plans)
- There is a clear intent that this tool shall continue to be developed into a full release after the end of this project, and to be a fundamental part of an EPIC Africa continued network and dialogue on WEF-informed planning and policy making – to continue to support sustainable development on the African continent.
