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Talking Heads
Packaging knowledge into a usable format. Using technology to bring the voices of experts to a wider audience.
Talking Heads
A talking head is a
short edited video clip of a person’s
views on a particular subject. It is very powerful as an
influencing and information tool as you just see the
person’s head, talking directly to the camera.
How are they used?
Learning, sharing and influencing externally & internally
Climate Change
The International Emergencies and Conflict team (IECT), supported by the Knowledge Initiative, held an innovative 'virtual' Climate Change conference in December 2006, using the videoconferencing facilities in
London and
Nairobi and a set of twelve virtual speakers, pre-recorded by KI as five minute 'talking heads'. The latter were used to
provoke, and then to
facilitate discussion around key issues.
Climate Change talking heads are used by other agencies to develop their climate change work.
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ActionAid
Talking heads of ActionAid staff members are used for
training and learning across the organisation. There are talking heads on a wide range of issues from our Education work, our Women's Rights work
and on different issues around human rights based approaches.
Click Below to Listen To:
Ennie Chipembere: ActionAid & Women’s Rights
John Samuel: ActionAid's Rights Based Approach
1 2 3
Rights in Conflict
ActionAid and the Inter Agency Group on Rights held a conference on the challenges of rights in conflict and humanitarian contexts. Each speaker was filmed and a talking head was extracted and created so that the visual learnings could be used for training.
Click below to listen to:
Discussion of Advocacy in Conflict countries 1 2
© Kate Holt /Eyevine/ ActionAid