We are dedicated to sharing the knowledge, skills and insights we gain through our work with communities around the world. Here we present some of our growing collection of guidebooks and toolkits, written articles, and video tutorials.

Knowledge Sharing

A woman and a man in Northern Kenya attach a camera to a tripod during a Participatory Video project

Global network of community-owned video hubs

How can the emergence of autonomous, community-led media ‘hubs’, working together in a global network, enable community voices to be shared internationally? Soledad Muñiz (Head of Innovation and Development at InsightShare) explores our big vision: a heterogeneous village globe that uses communication media to shift power and relations and create equality. The hub network began…

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A community screening of a Participatory Video in India

Building global media networks with a difference

How can Participatory Video create spaces horizontal communication between marginalised communities and groups around the world? In this article for the Glocal Times, InsightShare’s co-founder Nick Lunch explores the potential of community media ‘hubs’ to facilitate: farmer-to-farmer sharing of local innovations, networks of solidarity between indigenous custodians of sacred landscapes, and the development of community…

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A hand drawn picture of livestock by farmers in Turkmenistan

Rural People Document their Knowledge and Innovations

In this article, Chris Lunch (Co-Founder & Co-Director) of InsightShare describes a project carried out in Turkmenistan to illustrate how Participatory Videos about farmer innovation and experimentation can help to bring farmers’ own voices and images to the attention of policymakers in agricultural research and development (ARD). ‘Indigenous knowledge and local initiatives are usually documented and disseminated…

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