David South International Client Map | 2017

David South International (DSI) has offered consultancy services since 1991. This has included award-winning work in Asia and the United Kingdom, contributing to the UN winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001 and the UK's NHS winning the Childnet Award in 2003. Since 2006, DSI has been working with the UN on raising the profile of innovators in the global South, in particular Africa, and increasing awareness of innovation to address poverty and the global innovation agenda. The fruits of this work are considerable. From rescuing Mongolia from the "biggest peacetime economic collapse" in the late 1990s, to the design and mobile and information technology revolutions in international development from 2000 onwards.

David South International

Founder: David South

Headquarters: London, UK

Founded: 2010

Status: Private but investment welcome. Please see our scale-up plans for current opportunities.

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David South Consulting

Founder and Senior Partner: David South

Headquarters: London, UK

Global Hub: Geneva, Switzerland

Data Centre: Reykjavik, Iceland

Founded: 1991

Status: Partnership

We abide by the UN Global Compact. UN Vendor 63301.

All production energy used is 100% renewable. 

Brand owner for the following: 

davidsouthconsulting.com

davidsouthconsulting.org

davidsouthinternational.com

davidsouthinternational.org

southerninnovator.com, the online presence for Southern Innovator Magazine (Launched: 2011). 

wildeast.ca and Wild East Promotions for Wild East: Travels in the New Mongolia (ECW Press, 2000).

Our mobile products are developed at the Google Campus London for Startups. 

About Senior Partner David South

An adventurer at heart, David South has travelled around the world for various clients since the early 1990s. Senior Partner David South in Cannes, France in 2015. Photo: Jill Lawless.

Senior Partner David South outside the White House, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., in 2014. Photo: Jill Lawless.

Senior Partner David South at the Cinecitta film studios in Rome, Italy in 2011. Photo: Jill Lawless.

Read about Senior Partner David South's participation in the Workshop on Innovations in Service Delivery: The Scope for South-South and Triangular Cooperation held in Dhaka, Bangladesh in December 2017 here: http://www.davidsouthconsulting.com/blog/2017/12/16/southern-innovator-in-dhaka-bangladesh-public-service-innova.html

We are located in London, UK. London offers a heady mix of academia, creatives, diplomacy and government, financial services, and tech talent. Let us bring that together to help you.

We accept payments and donations here: https://www.paypal.me/davidsouthconsulting.

 

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Southern Innovator Impact Summaries | 2012 - 2014

By 2014, Southern Innovator had published five issues and become a recognised global innovation brand.

By 2012, Southern Innovator had completed its global reader impact study.

While Southern Innovator's digital presence has been key to its success and global reach, the hard copy of the magazine was designed with special features. The magazine needed to be robust and able to stand a fair bit of abuse and hard wear. It needed to be easy to read in low light conditions. And it needed to look sharp and eye-catching to reach as wide an audience as possible.

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UNDP Mongolia Media Coverage | 1997 - 1999

As head of communications for UNDP/UN Mongolia, I cultivated a good relationship with local and foreign media. This had many benefits for the mission, including extensive coverage of Mongolia and the UN's work. A small sample of the stories this relationship generated were published in the book In Their Own Words: Selected Writings by Journalists on Mongolia, 1997-1999 (ISBN 99929-5-043-9). Rather than having a confrontational relationship with the media, we found facilitating a constant flow of information back and forth led to many great stories, great adventures and the opportunity to meet highly talented journalists and other media professionals: all to the benefit of the UNDP Mongolia Communications Office. 

In Their Own Words was published in 1999 by UNDP Mongolia.

Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine and is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind. It chose my photo taken in the Gobi desert for its profile of the Internet revolution in 1998.

I am pictured speaking with Mongolian Members of Parliament in 1997.

"Communications Co - ordinator David South ( right ) meets regularly with the Communications Team : from left to right , Ms Saruul , UN Infoshop librarian , Ms Oyuntungalag , UNDP Communications Officer and Ms Bayasgalan ..."

Other Resources

Today's journalists have to contend with a very different world to what existed in the mid to late 1990s. The ubiquity of electronic devices - and surveillance - means it can be risky and even dangerous to contact sources using these tools. A free guide is available to help journalists protect themselves and sources. Written by a journalist, the Online Privacy Guide for Journalists 2017: A Guide for the Savvy Journalist in a World of Ever Decreasing Privacy, can be found here: https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/online-privacy-journalists/. For an explanation of the difference between a VPN (virtual private network) and a proxy, this short video from ExpressVPN on YouTube can help: What's the difference between a proxy and VPN?.

Various search engines also offer to hide your search. They include: 

Startpage.com

Privado.com

Duckduckgo.com

Southern Innovator’s Fifth Issue Profiles Innovators in Waste and Recycling | 2014

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 (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.

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Update on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 3:19AM by David South

Southern Innovator Issue 5 Launched in Washington, D.C.

A scientist from the Republic of Korea (South Korea) holds a copy of Issue 5 on waste and recycling.

Sustainable fashion brand NEEMIC is featured in Issue 5 of Southern Innovator. Based in China, NEEMIC has pioneered green fashion production methods in the country.

Fourth Issue of UNDP Magazine Southern Innovator Launches at GSSD Expo | 2013

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

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5311-1052.

© David South Consulting 2021

Update on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 7:25AM by David South

Interviews for Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 4

In 2012 Southern Innovator Editor David South visited the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China.

Moladi is a building and housing solution from South Africa and was featured in Southern Innovator Magazine.