MSL Leads Africa Energy Workshop

MSL designed and led the inaugural Atlas AI and e-GUIDE Innovation Network (EGIN) stakeholder workshop in Nairobi, Kenya on December 5 and 6, 2024. This event built on the success of the 2022 Global Energy Access Innovation Workshop in Rwanda, also designed and led by MSL, which led to the concept and formation of EGIN. The Kenya workshop was highly successful in achieving its objectives, engaging a cross-sector group of energy leaders in East Africa, planning the next stage of e-GUIDE’s work, and accelerating innovation processes and capacity.

The e-GUIDE (Electricity Growth and Utilization in Developing Economies) consortium comprises five U.S. research universities (Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and University of Washington) and the Carnegie Mellon – Africa campus, which together perform research and data analytics and create data products for use by local energy actors.

This workshop was designed to engage the end users of e-GUIDE’s products, along with intermediary organizations that assist them, in collaborative design and development of future work to enhance its effectiveness, including uptake, utilization, usefulness, and ultimate impact. The workshop design followed a “user-centered design” paradigm, and included case study presentations, plenary discussions, and team exercises in co-creating data products. EGIN, more generally, is designed to build innovation capacity in participating organizations, to accelerate progress and catalyze transformational innovation in this critical domain.

The full list of participating organizations is as follows:

The workshop concluded with a discussion of next steps to foster ongoing collaboration between e-GUIDE and its end users and intermediaries, and to optimize EGIN’s design and performance, which will now endeavor to launch continuous operations building on this exemplary group of leading organizations and practitioners.