“Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive” (then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Center for Global Development event on “Delivering Sustainable Energy for All; Rio 20 April,2012) It was certainly a sharp contrast heading from Swansea on a cold November…
To complete my Master in Development Administration and Planning at UCL, I had the opportunity to do my dissertation with InsightShare, whom I initially met in 2012 when I was volunteering as an anthropologist for the Open Opportunities programme in Guatemala. Since then, I have been interested in the organisation because it seemed to me…
An overview: who was involved and what did we achieve collectively? In the summer of 2022, InsightShare partnered with Prosocial World and CollabSoul to co-host a program funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. The program was designed to improve, adopt, and coordinate positive social change (prosocial) methods as a form of managed cultural evolution…
I was initially apprehensive of proposing a Participatory Video project to people with Down Syndrome and their caregivers. How would I ensure that all would participate equally and that the point of view of the caregivers would not dominate? As it turned out, I was given a very valuable and humbling lesson in solidarity, sharing…
