Dissemination Plan

My project is part of Fab Lab Bali’s ongoing ‘Hydrogen Village’ initiative which aims to democratize access to green hydrogen technology among Bali’s coastal communities. This project blends applied research with community development to foster clean energy communities and support local ecosystem regeneration efforts.

Currently, green hydrogen production remains expensive and inaccessible for many communities, especially coastal communities in Indonesia. One of the significant challenges we face is finding high-performance, cost-effective, and environmentally-friendly catalyst solutions for hydrogen electrolysis. My project specifically comes in to contribute accelerating the investigation of practical and low-cost local materials for hydrogen electrolytes. Leveraging distributed innovation in scientific research, H2Lyte aims to democratize access to measurement instruments, fostering scientific curiosity and promoting the citizen science movement, while enhancing environmental sustainability and community resilience.

From the project’s inception, our trajectory has been clear. In the short term, our immediate objective is to deploy a user-tested working prototype by the end of the year within the Hydrogen Village community in Serangan, Bali.

However, this also comes with the challenge of ensuring community acceptance and engagement. At Fab Lab Bali, we believe the way to tackle this is through distributed, inclusive, frugal, and open-source approach to innovation. With that, the dissemination strategy of the prototype might look like this

• Community Engagement and Education:

  Aside from the fact that it’s a scientific instrument, I aim for this device to serve as an educational tool, encouraging local participation in sustainable technology research. Conducting citizen-science workshops to kids, youth, and other residents that are interested in science. Engaged with local stakeholders and communities, like women, youth, and fisherman and identify local champions and provide trainings for them to help evangelize the technology. By encouraging residents of Serangan Village to be involved in data collection and experiments, we promote citizen science, demystify scientific processes, which aligns to Serangan identity as science-tourism area and helps its goal to be tourism village.

  A glimpse of our community engagement on ground:

  

• Collaboration and Open Innovation:

  We are open to broad participation in data collection and seek local sustainable resources with community support. The next step will be to publish comprehensive documentation and protocols to foster transparency and wider engagement. Partnerships with local universities will validate our research.

  Regarding this, PlantPad by Manu Prakash’s team at Prakash Labs Stanford University would be a great reference. It’s a highly scientific but also very community-based project. PlantPad built a consortium to invite everyone to contribute to its research and development:

  

  Therefore, publishing our project and documentation formally and inviting everyone to then collaborate will be another natural actionable step for our Hydrogen Village projects. We will be registering our project under a Creative Commons License. The one that is suitable for my prototype will be CC BY-NC-SA.

  

The dissemination plan for H2Lyte Sense in general aims to empower local communities, foster scientific curiosity, while advance regenerative energy solutions through collaborative innovation. By leveraging local resources and promoting inclusive participation, we aim to establish a scalable model for adopting green hydrogen technology in coastal regions. This approach aligns with and reflects Fab Lab Bali’s commitment to open-source innovation and community-driven development, ensuring equitable access to the benefits of green hydrogen technology.