Davidsouthconsulting.com Ranked 920,811 in Alexa Million Sites | 30 October 2015

In a world of more than 7 billion people, coming in the top million websites is humbling. The website ranking service Alexa compiles a list of the Top Million Sites in the world. And davidsouthconsulting.com comes in at 920,811. Published on a shoestring, the website comes packed with content and insights gleaned from over two decades' work around the world.

Davidsouthconsulting.com ranks at 920,811 in Alexa Top Million Sites.

"Davidsouthconsulting.com traffic estimate is about 88 unique visitors and 176 pageviews per day. The approximated value of davidsouthconsulting.com is 2,920 USD. Every unique visitor makes about 2 pageviews on average. Alexa Traffic Rank estimates that davidsouthconsulting.com is ranked number 188,469 in the world."

Update on Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 9:02AM by David South

With all the changes made to search since 2015 by Google and others, the davidsouthconsulting.com website has seen its traffic diminished. As news reports have revealed, search engines and social media outlets have facilitated content in order to drive traffic and harvest data (data=profits). And there has been a flood of content intended to either deceive, stoke hatred or just get people to look ('click bait').

But, considering the website was never meant to be more than a shop window to the brand and a tool for connecting with existing and potential clients, the amount of traffic the website has received to date (plus the many citations in books, papers, and on websites), means it has far exceeded its design specifications and expectations (thank you to our graphic designer Solveig Rolfsdottir who built the website back in 2010!).   

The impact of the positive, factual, high-quality resources on the davidsouthconsulting.com website (much of it work done for the United Nations), has been considerable. And it is now possible to compare that with the proliferation of so-called 'fake news' and corrupt news/influence operations (news agencies such as 'South-South News'. Read more about this case here: The Strange Saga of 'South-South News'). 

With the South-South News case, the UN found itself colluding with, and receiving funds from, an Interpol watch list individual involved in human and sex trafficking, among many other crimes, along with, money laundering and bribery. The attempt to establish essentially an industrial scale sex Kompromat operation in Macau (or a 'Kompromat Laundromat' if you will) (for background on how this works, read The Bro Code: Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China by James Palmer, China File, February 4, 2015) - called by a former UN official in charge of the organisation's anti-human trafficking work a world centre of modern human slave trafficking - masquerading as a US $3 billion new UN Asia facility - a "Geneva of Asia" - ranks as a new low point for the organization. Apart from the actual arrests and jail sentences, the poor judgement made by the UN to back such an entity can only now be seen in the context of the court case revelations, confessions, and convictions, which all centered on a deliberate attempt to bribe officials and launder money. It seems this particular operation had a Caribbean focus for money laundering out of China: Macau is a known conduit for expatriating money from China; the Caribbean is well known as a destination for laundered funds.  

Further resource: China's Building Projects in Africa Are a Spymaster's Dream (Foreign Policy, May 21, 2020). 

The data

Whilst our Alexa ranking had been as high as 920,811 in 2015, according to WebsiteOutlook, the Alexa ranking as of October 2017 was 10,208,460. According to W3Lookup.com, davidsouthconsulting.com has a world wide web ranking of 15,821,211. According to InternetValue.stream, davidsouthconsulting.com experienced an Alexa Global position domain change of -2,476 (ouch! - thanks Google) from 2015 to 2017.      

Google Analytics 

2019

January 2019: 271 Users and 295 Sessions (January 2018: 42 Users and 58 Sessions).  

2018

December 2018: 148 Users and 170 Sessions. 

November 2018: 106 Users and 127 Sessions. 

October 2018: 108 Users and 121 Sessions. 

September 2018: 142 Users and 177 Sessions. 

August 2018: 325 Users and 357 Sessions. 

July 2018: 118 Users and 151 Sessions. Average session duration: 02:26 minutes. Referrals: 62.5%. Organic search: 33.11%. 

June 2018: 163 Users and 187 Sessions. 

May 2018: 122 Users and 161 Sessions. 

April 2018: 72 Users and 111 Sessions. 

March 2018: 89 Users and 127 Sessions. 

February 2018: 41 Users and 55 Sessions. 

January 2018: 42 Users and 58 Sessions.  

Mobile Weekly Stats

2019

January: 

January 28-February 3: 29 Visits and 105 Page Views.

2018

December:

November 26-December 2: 24 Visits and 48 Page Views. 

November:

19-25: 21 Visits and 51 Page Views. 

12-18: 23 Visits and 45 Page Views. 

5-11: 24 Visits and 50 Page Views. 

October 9-November 4: 20 Visits and 57 Page Views. 

October:

15-21: 36 Visits and 61 Page Views. 

8-14: 14 Visits and 17 Page Views. 

1-7: 17 Visits and 38 Page Views. 

September: 

24-30: 35 Visits and 110 Page Views. 

17-23: 18 Visits and 34 Page Views. 

10-16: 49 Visits and 132 Page Views. 

3-9: 20 Visits and 30 Page Views. 

August 27-September 2: 26 Visits and 59 Page Views. 

August:

20-26: 27 Visits and 55 Page Views. 

13-19: 16 Visits and 44 Page Views. 

6-12: 24 Visits and 46 Page Views. 

July 30-August 5: 28 Visits and 57 Page Views. 

July:

23-29: 22 Visits and 38 Page Views. 

16-22: 25 Visits and 78 Page Views.  

9-15: 35 Visits and 62 Page Views. 

2-8: 34 Visits and 77 Page Views. 

2017

2016

May:

9-15: 23 Visits and 31 Page Views. 

2-8: 14 Visits and 26 Page Views. 

April:

18-24: 16 Visits and 25 Page Views. 

4-10: 14 Visits and 23 Page Views. 

March:

7-13: 41 Views and 47 Page Views. 

February 29-March 6: 14 Views and 18 Page Views. 

February: 

22-28: 15 Visits and 47 Page Views. 

15-21: 16 Visits and 23 Page Views.  

January:

18-24: 18 Visits and 31 Page Views. 

4-10: 7 Visits and 9 Page Views. 

December 28-January 3: 16 Visits and 27 Page Views. 

2015

December:

21-27: 27 Visits and 34 Page Views. 

7-13: 9 Visits and 12 Page Views. 

November 30-December 6: 15 Visits and 18 Page Views. 

November:

2-8: 11 Visits and 16 Page Views. 

October:

19-25: 8 Visits and 14 Page Views. 

12-18: 11 Visits and 20 Page Views. 

5-11: 10 Visits and 12 Page Views. 

September 28-October 4: 5 Visits and 5 Page Views. 

September:

7-13: 12 Visits and 20 Page Views. 

August:

24-30: 17 Visits and 19 Page Views. 

10-16: 7 Visits and 8 Page Views. 

July 27-August 2: 16 Visits and 49 Page Views. 

July:

20-26: 12 Visits and 45 Page Views. 

13-19: 32 Visits and 96 Page Views. 

6-12: 49 Visits and 165 Page Views. 

Source: Duda Mobile

Update on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 3:51AM by David South

In 2008, we began a reader response experiment on crowd-powered news website NowPublic for the stories published in the e-newsletter Development Challenges, South-South Solutions (for the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation). By 2012, 201 Development Challenges, South-South Solutions stories were posted on the NowPublic platform, with a total of 336,289 views, according to the NowPublic counter (reaching 420,151 views by 31 July 2013). 

Our online content receives traffic from around the world. In 2017, the countries visiting our WordPress website are as follows (from highest to lowest number of views): 

Davidsouthconsulting.org: 

United Kingdom, United States, Canada, India, Netherlands, Germany, Panama, South Korea, Brazil, Philippines, France, European Union, Indonesia, Italy, Singapore, South Africa, Australia, Belgium, Kenya, Norway, Ireland, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Pakistan, Somalia, Hong Kong (China), Slovakia, Peru, Jamaica, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Ghana, Sweden, Jordan, China, Bangladesh, Spain, Cote d'Ivoire, Bahamas, Colombia, St. Kitts & Nevis, Tunisia, Finland, Egypt, Denmark, Russia, Chile, Botswana, Uganda, Algeria, Argentina, Portugal, Tanzania, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Albania, Swaziland, Barbados, New Zealand, Iraq, Mongolia, Israel, Cambodia, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, Sudan, Maldives, Djibouti, Cyprus, Cameroon, Madagascar, Belize, Switzerland, Senegal, Malawi, Benin, Macedonia, Slovenia, Lebanon, Rwanda, Guernsey, Lithuania, Japan (Source: WordPress). 

2018

Davidsouthconsulting.org: 

United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, Canada, France, India, Philippines, Colombia, Germany, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda, Australia, Japan, Kenya, Turkey, Brazil, Mongolia, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, South Africa, China, Romania, Ghana, Poland, Singapore, Hungary, Malaysia, Austria, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Slovakia, Russia, Egypt, Belgium, Argentina, Thailand, Libya, United Arab Emirates, Iceland, Israel, Malta, Taiwan, Jordan, Jersey, European Union, Mexico, Switzerland, Zimbabwe, Montenegro, Bangladesh, Curacao, Sri Lanka, Zambia (Source: WordPress). 

Update on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 10:08AM by David South

As of March 2020, the davidsouthconsulting.com website has a global ranking of 4,434,919. It has been as high as 920,811 (2015) and as low as 15,821,211 (2017). 

CuteState.com ranking for davidsouthconsulting.com as of March 2020.

On 10 April 2020, according to Alexa, davidsouthconsulting.com ranked at 3,838,096 in the world.

According to StatsCrop, davidsouthconsulting.com has a global ranking of 544,000 and daily visitors of 700.   

Update on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 2:51AM by David South

As of October 2020, Nibbler claims davidsouthconsulting.com is globally ranked at 6,515,975.

Reflecting on What Has Been Accomplished: The David South Consulting Impact Summary | 27 March 2015

 

The title David South Consulting Summary of Impact is now available online. It covers work undertaken around the world from 1997 to 2014. This has included the rising use of the Internet to communicate, publishing during a major crisis, the campaign to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), modernizing online health resources and how hospital’s communicate in the 21st century, and chronicling some of the most powerful trends sweeping the planet as the global South increases its wealth. 

As powerful information technologies find their way to even the remotest and poorest places on earth, what is communicated on these platforms becomes more and more important. While governments may believe they can ring-fence and hold back the spreading of ideas – both good and bad, negative and positive – ideas will spread because human beings are ingenious communicators. Even if mobile phones and the Internet were to disappear tomorrow, people would find other ways to spread ideas. The future will be ever-more shaped by those who can spread useful ideas even faster. With the right idea, a problem can be tackled or solved. Most of the problems plaguing today’s world can be solved. The advances made in science and technology in the past half century are mind-boggling and many innovations are held back because of fear societies are just not ready to adapt, or because certain interest groups would rather not share what should be a common human inheritance. A simple newsletter, humble in its design, can have a profound impact if the content resonates with people’s dreams and aspirations; if the knowledge and ideas it contains makes them more powerful or able to act.

A magazine can be so much more than just pretty pictures and nice colours if its content captures a common and shared experience neglected by other media. Southern Innovator magazine is an example of this at work.

David South Consulting Summary of Impact

© David South Consulting 2017

Issue 6 Will Launch in Autumn 2014: Get on Board! | 28 July 2014

Issue 6 of Southern Innovator will tackle the theme of science, technology and innovation. Looking ahead, we are also seeking long-term funding for the magazine to take us to 2016 and also to enable us to scale to a level of reach we feel is necessary to have significant impact across the global South. To date, Southern Innovator has been ‘lean and mean’, run on a small budget with a tiny team. The editorial team is based in London, UK, the design team in Reykjavik, Iceland and the UN team in New York. This has worked well because it has forced us to be prudent with resources and to be very creative. But we have reached the physical limitations of this approach, and, to be frank, feel we are not living up to the potential of the magazine because we do not have the people and team to reach scale. As an example, we can only afford to publish in the English language, which means we miss out on billions of non-English speakers. We would like to have regional issues and bureaus, to be able to leverage the SI brand to offer a range of resources and products that are truly transformational for innovators, to stage events that bring together like-minded individuals, and to come out more frequently and regularly. 

If our potential sponsors and advertisers could see what I see when the magazine reaches readers, I do not think they would hesitate to get on board and support the magazine. Often innovators feel like they are plowing a lonely furrow, unsupported, isolated. Or are enjoying significant local success but can see how what they have learned can help others but lack the time or means to share their wisdom and experience.

That “a ha” moment when we meet somebody who tells us the magazine “gets them” is especially rewarding. Most recently, this happened over and over again at the Global South-South Development Expo held in Nairobi, Kenya towards the end of 2013.

Hollywood has given the world the highly entertaining Iron Man series of films. The fictional Tony Stark dazzles us with his inventions and his awesome innovator’s ocean-side lair. If you liked that film, then you will love what we see happening all around the global South and feature in the magazine. Most of our innovators lack the flashy resources and wealth of a Tony Stark but they are no less innovative and creative, often working in the harshest conditions on the planet. They are our ‘Iron Men’ and ‘Iron Women’.

Help us to further share the innovator’s spirit of Southern Innovator and transform the world, one good idea at a time!

Update on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 10:19AM by David South

Disrupted!! Issue 6 of Southern Innovator never came about and here is the story of why. One part of the story is very positive and inspiring; the other part is disappointing and frustrating (though always a risk when working in the international realm). 

First, the disappointing and frustrating part. We had been working with the UNOSSC (the funder of Southern Innovator) on a scale-up plan which would provide the funds for the brand to better chronicle the global South innovator culture of the 21st century. What we had not anticipated was various individuals involved with the UNOSSC not only acting in bad faith, but actually being involved with a multinational network to bribe UN officials and launder money into the United States, as was exposed during arrests by US authorities in late 2015 in New York (home of the UNOSSC and the UN's headquarters). As we found out, gradually, through media coverage and court trial testimonies and confessions under oath by co-conspirators following the arrests, there was a fundamental conflict of interest between the work we were doing and the UNOSSC's funding relationship with an entity that had its own news agency working out of the United Nations, South-South News. South-South News was established and funded by an Interpol Watch List individual, flagged up as a person not to do business with because of his involvement with human and sex trafficking and international criminal networks. South-South News' executives pushed for the building of a new "Geneva of Asia" for the UN in Macau, which would also host the UNOSSC's annual Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo). As confessed by the executives of South-South News, the news agency was established to facilitate bribes to UN officials and launder money into the United States - violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). This bribery and corruption case led to the UNOSSC's budget being suspended pending two internal UN audits. When the UNOSSC eventually re-booted in 2016/2017, Southern Innovator was not included in its programming budget. You can read more about this case here: http://www.davidsouthconsulting.com/blog/2018/3/4/the-strange-saga-of-south-south-news-may-2018.html. 

‘Jacked! | The Taking of the American Order

And now the positive and inspiring part: Southern Innovator evolved from the e-newsletter Development Challenges, South-South Solutions, first launched in 2006 (and we came on board to research and write stories in 2007). Much has happened since, including the Global Financial Crisis, and the global financial system re-boot that occurred afterwords. Both the e-newsletter and the magazine Southern Innovator fall into the category of 'crisis media': media used to bring together a response where the old methods and methodologies no longer work and something has caused system failure. Back in 2007, there was little discussion in the media about the global South, innovation, innovators, social entrepreneurship, and the mobile and information technology revolution occurring in the global South. Both the e-newsletter and the magazine identified a global 21st-century innovator culture that was unique since it was being fuelled by the rapid adoption of mobile and information technologies, often in places with high levels of poverty and turmoil.

According to the Final evaluation of the performance of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation under its strategic framework, 2014-2017, in light of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, prepared by Marcia Brewster, Consultant for the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC): 

"The reviewer observed that, although the Policy and UN Coordination Unit had produced all of the reports requested by intergovernmental bodies, especially for the High-level Committee, it had not been able to produce many of the publications (evidence-based analytical reports) that had previously been within its purview. Such publications included Southern Innovator magazine and the monthly e-newsletter “Development Challenges, South-South Solutions”. In the case of Southern Innovator, one issue (No. 5 on waste and recycling) was published during the four-year period of the framework but did not have wide online distribution, and issue No. 6 was awaiting funds for publication. The e-newsletter was last issued in July 2014 even though the reviewer found it a good way to communicate with focal points at the national and inter-agency levels. In fact, the shortage of funds for those knowledge products was the main reason that they had ceased being produced during the evaluation period."

"With respect to the analytical reports previously produced by the Office, such as Southern Innovator, they have not been produced in recent years owing to lack of funding." 

From the beginning, the e-newsletter and magazine were about changing perspectives and inspiring action. And so they have. Rather than say so in my words, I shall offer the words of others as we received them: 

“Great economic and business reporting! Very helpful for us.” Africa Renewal, Africa Section, Strategic Communications Division, United Nations Department of Public Information

“I just went over your June newsletter. It’s very well done and far reaching. Congratulations!” Violette Ruppanner, Director, 3D -> Trade – Human Rights – Equitable Economy, Geneva, Switzerland

“Just to let you know I enjoyed the newsletter a lot – it was interesting to learn about things going on that I would never otherwise find out about, and also the listing of future conferences and events proved very useful.” Ian Sanderson, Deloitte, Geneva, Switzerland

“Congratulations on another great newsletter that’s packed with fascinating information! I really enjoy getting it each month.” Whitney Harrelson, Making Cents, Washington D.C.

Blogger Taline Haytayan from Brighton, England, found a case study on story telling in the South particularly interesting: “I came across this interesting article entitled ‘The South Has a Good Story to Tell’, which talks about storytelling in developing countries, and its use as a critical tool for passing on history, while teaching morals and ethics – so I would like to share it here with you. It’s a nice surprise to see that this article appears in UNDP’s South to South Cooperation unit newsletter. It gives an overview of storytelling in a number of countries, such as the movement of urban storytellers in Colombia, inspired by Italo Calvino; tale-spinners in Argentina; the halakis, or storytelling sages, of Morocco; and digital storytelling by women in South Africa.” (http://talinita.blogspot.com/2008/05/south-has-good-story-to-tell.html)

“A few weeks ago, David South, Development consultant and author of UNDPs Development Challenges, South-South Solutions Newsletter, came by the betterplace office to take a look at our work. When I asked him how he had come about betterplace.org, he answered: he found me on twitter! So much for the twitter-scepticts.” Joana Breidenbach, betterplace.org, Berlin, Germany (http://blog.betterplace.org/en/2009/09/15/690/)

“This is a WONDERFUL site. I read–and at least bookmarked to read again–your stories with the photo of the homeless gentleman “will write HTML code for food,” and of the young African girl who was hungry, and how they are predicting (and it seems inevitable) famine an a high voltage bolt in the poverty percentages. … your writing is phenomenal–the few stories that I have seen are actually SUPERIOR in their professional, technical, and relevant accounts. Their VERY interesting, and I unfortunately have not seen other sources of news lately (other than from my school’s library database, and old Public Broadcasting documentaries). God has blessed your works, and I am thankfully blessed by them!”  Sincerely, J. (Au) Whi, (from NowPublic site)

“Many thanks for sending me a copy of your interesting work. I read just one article in Spanish thus far but found it well written and useful. For us here in Colombia, it will be most useful having regular access to your publication and, of course, I am pleased that the articles are in Spanish as well as French and English. I hope that one day I might invite you to take a closer look at the Arranque Automático operation in Colombia and perhaps invite you to do a write-up on the technique and its ample theoretical foundations.”  David Cuanespero Boriol, Colombia

"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." Rose Shuman, Founder & CEO, Open Mind and Question Box

"Question Box was featured in Southern Innovator, a new publication of UNDP that profiles some of the most innovative ideas coming out of the global South. We were pleased to see many friends in the sector profiled as well, such as Ushahidi, Medic Mobile, and TxtEagle. Take a look at the magazine, as it is a great primer on ICT and mobile innovation from around the globe." Question Box News. 

"Looks great. Congratulations. It’s Brill’s Content for the 21st century!" Conan Tobias, Managing Editor, Canadian Business

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"

"Thank you David - Your insight into the issues facing us a[s] [a] "global Village" is made real in the detail of your article - 10 out of 10 from the moladi team." Moladi, South Africa (http://www.moladi.net/index.htm)

"I liked your latest Southern innovator! Always inspiring." Joana Breidenbach, betterplace.org, Berlin, Germany

"The magazine looks fantastic, great content and a beautiful design!"

"Btw, I really enjoyed reading them, impressive work & a great resource. Looking forward to Issue 6. My best wishes to you & your team at SI."

"... great magazine, nice design."

2014 proved a significant year for our work, as Southern Innovator is cited in various strategy documents as a resource contributing to a shift in funding priorities at the United Nations and other international development funders, and the adoption of South-South innovation as a key part of the UN's work. The e-newsletter and magazine are also cited in many papers and books and are clearly contributing to a better understanding of the 21st-century global South innovator culture.  

By 2015, Southern Innovator was still drawing praise for its timely resources on South-South innovation and innovators:

"@SouthSouth1 is one of the best sources out there for news and info on #solutions to #SouthSouth challenges.” Adam Rogers, Assistant Director, Regional Representative, Europe, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) 

Southern Innovator Issue 5 Awaits Sign-Off | 20 December 2013

Southern Innovator‘s fifth issue is ready and is currently being reviewed in New York at the UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC). On the theme of waste and recycling, it asks some challenging questions about how the world uses its resources and what this means for the advancement of human development, in particular in the global South.

The sixth issue will get underway in 2014 and is on the theme of science, technology and innovation. Southern Innovator is looking for invitations to come and see what innovators are working on and what has been accomplished. Time is tight, so please contact us now to liaise on travel schedules for the first two months of 2014 (January and February). In the past, Southern Innovator has been invited to see first-hand innovators at work in Cuba, South Korea and China.

Issue 5 cover.

As 2014 approaches, SI will draft some thoughts on what has been accomplished and will peer into the future and offer some perspective and thoughts on innovation and resilience in the 21st century.

Southern Innovator Issue 1 at the Tianjin Eco-city in China.

Southern Innovator Issue 5 in Production | 10 December 2013

The fifth issue of Southern Innovator is on the way. It explores innovators in the global green economy and who are tackling the issues of waste and recycling and how to use resources efficiently while raising living standards and boosting human development. Southern Innovator is a great opportunity to reach cutting-edge innovators around the world. Don’t miss this opportunity to support the magazine in 2014 and 2015. The magazine is beginning a new phase in how it is distributed by partnering with innovators to help reach more readers.

First draft cover for Issue 5.