Abstract With Sustainable Development Goal 7, the United Nations has declared its ambition
to ensure access to modern energy for all by 2030. Aside from broad appeals to …

Currently, Kenya depends mainly on oil, geothermal energy and hydro resources for
electricity production, however all three have associated issues. Oil-based electricity …

Technologies can play an important role in developing and scaling social innovations,
thanks to their ability to reach and mobilise communities of people, use resources more …

Market-based solar products are widely accepted as being vital to addressing energy
poverty in the Global South. In service to the aims of SDG 7, it is estimated that 740 million …

Abstract When a Renewable Energy (RE) power system is owned, operated or maintained
by a community organisation, some of the problems associated with other rural electrification …

This paper builds on heterogeneous infrastructures scholarship to examine urban electricity
access geographies in the Global South. I propose the notion of urban bricoleurs to help …

Off-grid solar products, which are typically positioned as a solution to rural energy poverty,
have experienced rapid sales growth in urban centers across the Global South over the last …

The decentralization of governance is increasingly considered crucial for delivering
development and is being widely adopted in sub-Saharan countries. At the same time …

In this paper, we explore the practices and spaces of mobile phone charging in The Gambia
and Sierra Leone through the lens of 'electricity scarcity'as a means to conceptualise …

Technological advances are increasing interest in the potential role of information and
communication technologies (ict) in enabling quality education outcomes in Africa. At …