Using ICT to Increase Green Competitiveness in Guatemala

Project Summary:

Supporting national programs to promote efficient industries, KGGTF’s two-year USD $605,000 program is providing technical assistance to implement Guatemala’s energy policy. The program will stimulate small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt clean production protocols and technologies, while improving SME competitiveness. This will be done through the delivery of enabling ICT and through capacity building and awareness raising activities. 

List of Activities:

• Stimulating demand, improving supply, and linking SMEs through an ICT market exchange, open-source platform for service providers
• Institutional Capacity Building, Awareness and Dissemination
• Supporting pilot implementation of energy management systems (EMS) in selected clusters and using sensing technology for real-time performance monitoring across production processes

Outcomes:

Some of the expected outcomes of this project include:

• Market Exchange Platform developed and operational, to enable access of MSMEs to reliable information for services and assistance, which will include a virtual directory of service providers for energy efficiency
• A tested model to implement energy management system (EMS) in value chains and conglomerates of firms which is economically viable. The EMS will enable to use ICT enabled solutions to collect, analyze and evaluate energy and resource efficiency performance data from firms
• Clean Production Strategy and Action Plan: The plan will specify national goals, key measures, responsibilities, timeframes and Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms
• Senior officials are familiarized with tested concepts, approaches, instruments, and principles for advancing resource efficient industries in the context of Guatemalan challenges and opportunities
• Companies are better informed on the potential impact and benefits of adopting clean production technologies and use the Market Exchange Platform to source related services.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

Output 1:

• Analytical / Diagnostics of previous experiences

Output 2:

• Training on best approaches for policy makers
• Participatory action planning exercise

Output 3:

• South-south partnership for transferal of Energy Management System capability from Korea to Guatemalan cluster using ICT
• South-south partnership for transferal of virtual market exchange using ICT

Output 4:

• Pilot project for greening by ICT: introduction of EMS for industrial clusters
• Pilot project for greening by ICT: Virtual exchange

Outcomes:

This project leveraged cooperation from the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIP), Korea Energy Management Corporation (KEMCO), and Korea Industrial Complex Corporation (KICOX), who served as critical knowledge providers for pilot project and south-south collaboration for ICT information platform and energy management systems