1. Millie B. Radojevic
Innovation unit, BRC
@ElaMi5

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. Smart citizens- applying lessons of Web 2.0 to energy
innovations (gaming, rapid feedback loops, social
interaction, tech and non-tech policy enabled designs)

7. THE NO-SILOS APPROACH TO PROJECT PLANNING
Pre-PAC
Beta
Graduation
Alpha
LPAC
Does the solution
exist already?
Yes
Alpha
Beta
Graduation
• Research
• Partners outreach
• Social media/comms
• Open call for ideas
Filter
Project
Opportunity
(idea or donor
driven)
Filter
Lab
Proto
type
Filter
Ideas
Filter
No
Filter
“Gatekeeper”
(UNDP DRR)
Filter
„Lab heavy‟: develop
solutions from scratch
„Lab light‟: import, test
and enhance existing
solutions

8. Equity based crowdfunding for sustainable energy

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

10. Smart meters but smart for who- companies or users?

11. Designing and testing energy systems around energy user

12. Challenge prizes: scaling community led energy projects

13. Social pressure
Social norms

14. 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
Does a type of messenger affect heating-related decisions?
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
Does info display affect shopping behavior?

15. Data collection, monitoring, communication of results

16. Smart meters but smart for who- companies or users?

17. SMS data collection

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

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

21. • Expertise referral, horizon scanning
• Partnership development
CO Portfolio Screening:
Entry points for innovation
• Running challenges
• Social media intelligence
• R&D, Rapid prototyping