Southern Innovator Magazine | 2010 - 2014

 Southern Innovator in Tianjin, China.

Issue 5 of Southern Innovator at the Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) 2014 held in Washington, D.C.

Volunteers in Nairobi, Kenya pose with Southern Innovator Issue 4 at the Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) in 2013.

Southern Innovator Editor and Writer David South in Australia.

Some comments that have come in so far about SI's first issue:

"What a tremendous magazine your team has produced! It's a terrific tour de force of what is interesting, cutting edge and relevant in the global mobile/ICT space... Really looking forward to what you produce in issues #2 and #3. This is great, engaging, relevant and topical stuff.", to "Looks great. Congratulations. It’s Brill’s Content for the 21st century!"

What they are saying about SI on Twitter: From @CapacityPlus Nice job RT @ActevisCGroup: RT @UNDP: Great looking informative @SouthSouth1 mag on South-South Innovation; @UNDP Great looking informative @SouthSouth1 mag on South-South Innovation; @JeannineLemaire Graphically beautiful & informative @UNDP Southern Innovator mag on South-South Innov. 

And on Pinterest:

Peggy Lee • 1 year ago

"Beautiful, inspiring magazine from UNDP on South-South innovation. Heart is pumping adrenaline and admiration just reading it"

Southern Innovator Editor and Writer David South.

The @SouthSouth1 Twitter page offers regular updates on the magazine and innovation across the global South:

Southern Innovator is held in the following library collections:

British Library: http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=moreTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=BLL01015867241&indx=1&recIds=BLL01015867241&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=1&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BLCONTENT%29&frbg=&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1481102997859&srt=rank&mode=Basic&vl(488279563UI0)=any&dum=true&tb=t&vl(freeText0)=southern%20innovator%20magazine&vid=BLVU1

Library of Congress: https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=4750&recCount=25&recPointer=0&bibId=17462965

Malaysian Academic Library Union: http://malcat.uum.edu.my/kip/Record/ukm.vtls003513851

Update on Monday, October 27, 2014 at 12:10PM by David South

Press Release for General Distribution

New Magazine Targets Innovators in Global South

United Nations, New York, 20 September 2011

• Global magazine Southern Innovator profiles innovation
culture ending poverty
• 60-page color magazine gives snapshot of fast-changing
world

Southern Innovator is a new magazine for a fast-changing world. It profiles
and celebrates the innovators across the global South finding new ways to
tackle poverty, create wealth and improve human development and achieve
the millennium development goals (MDGs). In its first issue, Southern
Innovator features the people who are re-shaping new technologies – from
mobile phone ‘apps’ to Internet technologies - to overcome poverty and to
improve the quality of life in some of the poorest places on earth.

SI is based on intensive research and is produced by UNDP’s Special Unit for
South-South Cooperation (www.southerninnovator.org). The Unit is the
leading organisation in the world tasked with the goal of sharing knowledge
across the global South. It organises events including the yearly South-South
Expo (www.southsouthexpo.org), a roaming celebration and gathering of
Southern innovators previously held in New York and Geneva, Switzerland.
This year’s Expo will be held in Rome, Italy (5 to 9 December 2011).

SI is being distributed around the world through the United Nations network
and partners and reaches some of the poorest and remotest places as well as
the vibrant but stressed growing global megacities. It is hoped the magazine
will inspire budding innovators with its mix of stories, essential information,
facts and figures, images and graphics. The magazine will evolve based on
reader responses and this first issue is very much the beginning of a journey.
As became clear while researching this first issue, many things can change in
a short space of time. Few could have imagined the rapid take-up of mobile
phones in Africa and how these phones have become integral to development
goals across the continent.

SI magazine is a quarterly publication and the next issues will launch in
September and December of this year.

A summary for publication is here:

“Southern Innovator (ISSN 2222-9280) is a quarterly magazine published by
the United Nations Development Programme’s Special Unit for South-South
Cooperation. Launched in May 2011, SI is a new magazine celebrating
creativity and innovation emerging from the global South. It explores
entrepreneurial solutions to development challenges and uncovers the trends
and events shaping the rise of the South in order to spur action on ending
extreme poverty and toward reaching the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs).”

We hope you enjoy the magazine and find its content interesting and
illuminating: a snapshot of a fast-changing world awash, as we found out, with
innovators, creators and do-ers making their world a better place.

For more information on Southern Innovator contact Cosmas Gitta at
cosmas.gitta@undp.org or editor David South at
southerninnovator@yahoo.co.uk.
www.southerninnovator.org

Update on Monday, October 27, 2014 at 12:19PM by David South

Press Release for General Distribution

Fourth Issue of UNDP Magazine Southern Innovator Launches at GSSD Expo

United Nations, Nairobi, Kenya, 31 October 2013

• Fourth issue of Southern Innovator launched at Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) 2013
in Nairobi, Kenya
• 60-page color magazine gives snapshot of fast-changing world

The fourth issue of Southern Innovator magazine has launched at the Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya. Southern Innovator Issue 4 visits the new cities being built to tackle the challenges of a rapidly urbanizing 21st-century world. The magazine also highlights some of the solutions being devised to the challenges people face as the world becomes a majority urban place.

Some innovators are building new cities from scratch, applying the latest thinking and hard-wiring in cutting edge information technologies and innovative environmental measures to create 'smart' cities and eco-cities. Architects are designing and refining homes that are beautiful and functional, easy to build, affordable and conserve energy. Social entrepreneurs are innovating ways to create liveable and socially inclusive urban areas, often in places where planning has been scant and where incomes are very low. All those featured in the magazine were chosen for their focus on improving human development and their ingenuity and fresh
thinking.

Southern Innovator champions a 21st-century global innovator culture. The magazine profiles and celebrates the innovators across the global South finding new ways to tackle poverty, create wealth and improve human development and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In its first issue in September 2011, Southern Innovator featured the people who are re-shaping new information technologies - from mobile phone apps to Internet technologies. Many of the innovators profiled in that first issue came from Kenya.

SI (southerninnovator.org) is based on intensive research and produced by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation in UNDP (UNOSSC) (formerly the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation in UNDP). UNOSSC organizes an annual Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) (southsouthexpo.org), a roaming celebration and gathering of Southern innovators previously held in New York, Washington, D.C., Geneva, Rome and Vienna. This year's Expo is being held in Nairobi, Kenya (28 October to 1 November 2013) and is hosted by the UN Environment Programme (unep.org).

SI is being distributed through the United Nations' network and partners and reaches some of the world's poorest and remotest places, as well as the vibrant but stressed growing global megacities. It is hoped the magazine will inspire budding innovators with its mix of stories, essential information, facts and figures, images and graphics.

We hope you enjoy the magazine and find its content interesting and illuminating: a snapshot of a fast-changing world awash, as we found out, with innovators, creators and do-ers making their world a better place. It is possible to sponsor issues of the magazine, either through helping to fund its print run, or through sponsored inserts covering that issue’s theme with relevant content for our readers.

For more information on Southern Innovator, contact Cosmas Gitta at
cosmas.gitta@undp.org.

Online archives: southerninnovator.org; http://www.scribd.com/SouthernInnovator. Follow @SouthSouth1

Update on Monday, October 27, 2014 at 12:26PM by David South

Press Release for General Distribution  

Southern Innovator’s Fifth Issue Profiles Innovators in Waste and Recycling

United Nations, New York, USA, 28 April 2014

 • Fifth issue of Southern Innovator tackles ways to improve human development in a world with finite resources
• 60-page color magazine offers a snapshot of our fast-changing world

The fifth issue of Southern Innovator (SI) magazine is out now. It explores how innovation can tackle the challenges of improving human development on a planet with finite resources.

SI researchers identified innovative, low-polluting options to the world's energy needs. They found that it is possible to alter the way that things are made to reduce or eliminate waste and toxic pollutants harming human health and damaging the environment. And not only that: they also discovered that there are sustainable incomes to be made from the economy of waste reduction and recycling – an opportunity that has yet to be fully realized. The innovations shared here demonstrate that raising living standards in the global South and responsible use of the world's resources are not necessarily incompatible.

Some innovators are transforming attitudes towards fashion, proving that it does not have to be a wasteful industry. Others are turning commonly found waste – food waste, or human or animal excrement – into fuel for heating. The link between good design and the efficient use of resources is apparent in many of the innovators’ solutions. If a new, green economy is to work, then it must appeal to people's aspirations and be something that they want in their lives and are willing to work to achieve.

Southern Innovator (southerninnovator.org) champions a 21st-century global innovator culture. It is based on intensive research and produced by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) in UNDP. UNOSSC also organizes the annual Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) (southsouthexpo.org), a traveling celebration bringing together Southern innovators, with previous venues in New York, Washington, D.C., Geneva, Rome,Vienna, Nairobi and Doha.

We hope that you enjoy the magazine and find its content interesting and illuminating, a snapshot of a fast-changing world awash with innovators, creators and doers making their world a better place.

For information on sponsoring issues of the magazine, either through helping to fund its print run, or through an insert relating to an issue's theme with pertinent content for our readers, contact Cosmas Gitta at cosmas.gitta@undp.org.

Online archives: southerninnovator.org; http://www.scribd.com/SouthernInnovator. Follow us
@SouthSouth1

GOSH Child Health Web Portal | 2001 - 2003

GOSH Children's Charity Portal Page circa 2003. Designers: Pretty. Charity Content Coordinator: Ramita Navai.

Britain’s best-loved children’s hospital and charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH), contracted me to lead a two-year project to modernise the hospital’s web presence and take its brand into the 21st century. GOSH is both Britain’s first children’s hospital and a pioneering child health institution (along with its partner the Institute for Child Health). The hospital’s outstanding reputation meant the project was carried out under intense public, media and professional scrutiny, and required a keen awareness of new media developments and the needs of the hospital’s patients, their families and the public.

The project was developed in three, distinct phases. Screen grabs from these phases are now available for download and evaluation. They also include web traffic statistics. This unique snapshot of a complex project as it unfolded, should prove useful for other e-health practitioners.

Phase 1: www.scribd.com/doc/47241951/GOSH-Child-H ealth-Portal-Proj...
Phase 2: www.scribd.com/doc/47242473/GOSH-Child-H ealth-Portal-Proj...
Phase 3: www.scribd.com/doc/47242267/GOSH-Child-H ealth-Portal-Proj...

In 2001, the project also launched an interactive Christmas child health advent calendar offering top tips from health professionals on how to have a safe holiday season. The PDF can be viewed here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/44905926/Christmas-Advent-Calendar-for-GOSH-Child-Health-Portal-2001.

A great way to track the historical development of a web project is to use the Wayback Machine’s internet archive here. By typing in the web address (for example, www.gosh.nhs.uk, and www.gosh.org), you can see a chronological history of the website by month.

Read here about the child health portal project’s vision and strategy, its launch and overall impact. Or download a brief Powerpoint presentation here: GOSH Powerpoint.

In 2003, the UK’s Guardian newspaper called the Children First website one of the “three most admired websites in the UK public and voluntary sectors,” and a UK government assessment called the overall GOSH child health web portal a role model for the NHS.

In 2006, The Times of London called Children First the Top Child Health Website in its Wellbeing on the Web: The Best Portals survey (November 11, 2006).

Announcement launching the GOSH Child Health Portal in "Research Review 2001: A year of excellence and innovation".

A quick interview in the GOSH staff newsletter Roundabout in 2002.

A BBC story in 2002 announcing the launch of the GOSH Child Health Portal's children's content."Hospital unveils international website for children": The Guardian, 8 October 2003.

"The kids are alright": The Guardian, 5 February 2003. 

"Web Projects For Kids Get Their Due": CBS News, April 25, 2003.

© David South Consulting 2017

Human Development Report Mongolia | 1997

Human Development Report Mongolia 1997This groundbreaking Mongolian Human Development Report – the country’s first – went beyond just chronicling Mongolia’s state of development in statistics and graphs. It placed the story of the Mongolian people during the transition years (post-1989) at its heart, using photographs, stories and case studies to detail the bigger narrative at play.

Designed, laid out and published in Mongolia, the report broke with the practices of many other international organisations, who would publish outside of Mongolia – denying local companies much-needed work. The report’s costs helped to kick-start a publishing boom in the country and significantly raised standards in design and layout. The foundations laid down by the project producing the report ushered in a new age in publishing for Mongolia.

The report’s launch was innovative, not only being distributed for free across the country, but also part of a multimedia campaign including television programming, public posters, town hall meetings and a ‘roadshow’ featuring the report’s researchers and writers.

The initial print run of 10,000 copies was doubled as demand for the report increased. To the surprise of many, once hearing about the free report, herders would travel to the capital, Ulaanbaatar, to pick up their copy. The report proved people cared passionately about the development of their country and that development concepts are not to be the secret domain of ‘development practitioners’.

You can read the report's pdf here: books.google.co.uk/books?id=dx7Q-yJot_cC&printsec=fro...

The MHDR 1997 was so popular it had two print runs. It has been cited in many books, journals and publications. It was the first exhaustive account of the country's turbulent transition years and mapped the extent of poverty in the country.

The award-winning UN/UNDP Mongolia Development Portal was launched in 1997. It quickly became the go-to source on Mongolia's development challenges.

CTV News: "Canada named best place to live on this day in 1997". I considered it an enormous privilege to be given the opportunity to work with fellow Canadians on sharing our experiences with Mongolia during the 1990s crisis.

"On this day in 1997, Canada was on top of the world. Or at least, on top of the United Nations' annual ranking of the best places to live in the world.

CTV News archival footage captured a proud moment for Canada on June 12, 1997, as then-National News anchor Lloyd Robertson hailed the UN ranking as a “report card to be proud of.”

“It’s not quite straight As but Canada is still at the head of the class,” Robertson said. “In fact, it’s No. 1 in the world.”

Related Links

• UN 1997 Human Development Report
• UN 2014 Human Development Report

Canada beat out France, Norway, the United States and Iceland for top spot on the UN human development list, which ranks countries based on a variety of factors linked to quality of life.

It was the fourth straight year Canada topped the list.

Canada earned top marks in the life expectancy, health, education and income categories, which helped propel the country’s overall Human Development Index score to No. 1 in the world."

© David South Consulting 2017

Watch Magazine Project | 1994

Watch Magazine 1994: Oasis Cover Feature.

A sample of covers from Watch Magazine in 1994.

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1994 and 1996

Editor-in-Chief: David South

View Case Study 2: Watch Magazine | 1994 Images here: http://www.davidsouthconsulting.com/case-studies/case-study-2-watch-magazine-1994-images.html

In 1994 a huge schism had grown in Canada between youth and the wider media. Simultaneously, Canada was in the middle of an austerity crisis, with jobs for young people scarce and budgets being cut everywhere. Young people were not represented in the media and their views were ignored. That is, until Watch Magazine exploded onto the streets of Toronto and into the halls of the city’s high schools.

I was hired by Youth Culture to be the Editor-in-Chief for this unique business: a magazine staffed by high school students but covering the wider worlds of pop music, culture, fashion, politics and the arts.

Among the magazine's many firsts, it pioneered new technologies for design and layout, drew attention to the burgeoning Internet world, opened up the youth market, aiding many new businesses, and introduced a savvy pop-culture perspective to a stale media scene grown too comfortable and too old.

View a collection of the magazine covers and story layouts here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/15195144@N06/sets/72157613009960327/

 

© David South Consulting 2017