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…
Pakorpa Susangho is a short participatory video in which ten widows from the small settlement of Kulbia in Ghana document and report land issues affecting them. It is a traditional practice in their communities that, following their husband´s death, widows lose the rights to the land they previously owned. One of the ten women collaborating…
