Abstract-This study presents the results of the evaluation of some strategies to promote adoption of technologies that enable the use of renewable energy sources (RES) in Wayuu indigenous communities located in La Guajira, Colombia. We used an agent-based model representing the collective decision process within the communities, where three different types of agents are used to represent the members of the communities and their influence on the process of decision making. This process involves several discussions and meetings, using text to speech, lectures and training, and visits to other projects as strategies. Subsequently, using the model, a factorial experiment was conducted to compare the impact of various proposed and implemented strategies. The impact of the study measured the number of members willing to adopt new technologies in the community. In this sense, the best results with respect to the dissemination and adoption of RES in the communities under study were obtained by combining the strategies of text to speech and training lectures.
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