Southern Innovator and the Growing Global Innovation Culture: Background Paper | 2013

Publisher: David South Consulting/David South International 

Category: Background Paper

Published: July 2013

Client: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC)

Introduction

The topic of innovation is ever more frequently mentioned by policy-makers and politicians. Whole business schools dedicate themselves to the subject, while governments and international organizations now often set aside a department or division dedicated to innovation. The European Commission’s Innovation Union is one example (http:// ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm).

This paper argues that the rise of a global innovation culture is not just hype, a marketing catch-phrase or the latest piece of government jargon. It is really happening and it is snowballing with the aid of the communications revolution. It is interlinking with increasing global trade links, extending to what were some of the most remote corners of the earth. Increasing urbanization is drawing people into new circumstances and causing chaos in many lives, but also spawning challenges that spur people to seek solutions.

The current global economic crisis which started in 2007/2008 seems to have accelerated this tendency as many question the validity and sustainability of the current economic paradigm and global structure. The over-reliance on debt to create prosperity (from housing bubbles to credit cards) has exposed the failure of many institutions, governments and companies - small and large - to innovate. The use of debt - rather than innovation - to create economic growth and prosperity leads to innumerable problems. Resources are not used efficiently (a serious problem on a finite planet with a growing population heading past 7 billion) (UN), and technological and scientific advances are held back as there is no incentive to change old ways when money is easy and cheap. 

While many countries of the global North, particularly in Europe and North America, have experienced a severe economic crisis since 2007, the countries of the global South - while not in any way immune to the problems experienced by the global North - are experiencing a profound perception change.

The space created by the crisis in the North has directed investment wealth and attention towards the global South and emerging market countries. One of the more amusing manifestations of this has been the endless - and very creative - deployment of acronyms for each new investment opportunity, BRIC, CIVETS,etc. Countries and regions which were subject to decades of negative publicity - or just completely ignored - were now ‘sexy’.

In just eight years from 2000 to 2008, BRICs countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - saw their combined share of total world economic output rise from 16 to 22 percent. This led to a 30 percent increase in global output during the period, showing how key these countries were to global prosperity in the 21st Century. The BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries make up nearly half the world’s population and are regional leaders. Taken together, their gross domestic products (GDPs) are not far behind the United States.

What's next?

Ruchir Sharma’s Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles (http:// www.amazon.com/Breakout-Nations-Pursuit-Economic-Miracles/dp/0393080269) argues that the BRICs are now entering a more stable growth path and thus will not see the rapid-fire expansion and quick profits investors have become used to in the past decade. 

"The BRICs,” Sharma told Forbes magazine, “were last decade’s team.”

The buzz surrounding the BRICs countries over the past decade has been justified by their impressive growth rates, declining poverty levels, modernizing economies and societies and growing middle class populations.

China alone saw its gross domestic product grow by US$5 trillion between 2001 and 2011.

But other countries are now coming up. Sharma points out that Indonesia was the best performing emerging market in 2011 and has a GDP that will surpass a trillion dollars in the coming years.

He also believes Sri Lanka and Nigeria are economies to watch.

Sharma says funds flowing into emerging market stocks grew by 478 percent between 2005 and 2010, a huge jump compared to 2000 to 2005, when the total grew by 92 per cent.

Investors who watch the emerging markets predict the hot growth areas for the next decade will be around energy, technology, and agricultural resources. All are areas ripe for significant innovation.

To make sense of the complexity of fast-emerging economies, the flurry of new investor acronyms try to find the common attributes they share. One country cluster is called the CIVETS: Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, South Africa (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIVETS). Another is PC-16 (Post-China16), comprising the16 countries best suited to succeed China as the world's low-cost, export-oriented economy hub - Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, ...

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Background Paper for the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC).

 

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Southern Innovator and the Growing Global Innovation Culture | 7 April 2016

A paper prepared for the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) in 2013.

© David South Consulting 2017

Citing Southern Innovator: Books and Papers | 29 November 2015

Southern Innovator was initially launched in 2011 with the goal of - hopefully - inspiring others (just as we had been so inspired by the innovators we contacted and met). The magazine seeks to profile stories, trends, ideas, innovations and innovators overlooked by other media. The magazine grew from the monthly e-newsletter Development Challenges, South-South Solutions published by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) since 2006. A selection of books and papers citing stories from the magazine are featured below to aid researchers, in particular those interested in health and human development and the role of innovators in international development. 

The first five issues of Southern Innovator from 2011 to 2014. Called a "Beautiful, inspiring magazine from UNDP on South-South innovation."

Books

Innovation Africa: Emerging Hubs of Excellence edited by Olugbenga Adesida, Geci Karuri-Sebina and João Resende-Santos (Emerald Group Publishing: 2016)

"Innovation is critical to growth and development in Africa. In the context of a continent characterized by fast growing economies as well as an array of socioeconomic challenges, such as high levels of poverty and inequality, innovation in Africa must be understood in an encompassing manner. Africa needs to support the emergence of its own Silicon Valleys, but it must also foster the invention and adoption of cleaner technologies that limit respiratory illnesses, deforestation and combat climate change. This book contains a number of analytical case studies that examine the nature and origins of emerging high-end innovation hubs in Africa. These "hubs" or ecosystems are both understudied and little known inside and outside the continent. With this analysis, the book highlights and draws lessons from some of the most promising and successful innovation cases in Africa today, exploring the key factors driving their successful emergence, growth and future prospects. Relevant for scholars, policymakers, and business leaders, the book provides both inspiration and useful policy advice that can inform strategies and concrete measures to speed up the pace of innovation in Africa today."

Innovation Africa: Emerging Hubs of ExcellenceBeyond Gated Communities edited by Samer Bagaeen and Ola Uduku (Routledge: 2015)

"Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a 'gated community' to the more fluid one of urban gating. The latter allows communities to be viewed through a new lens of soft boundaries, modern communication and networks of influence.

The book, written by an international team of experts, builds on the research of Bagaeen and Uduku’s previous edited publication, Gated Communities (Routledge 2010) and relates recent events to trends in urban research, showing how the discussion has moved from privatised to newly collectivised spaces, which have been the focal point for events such as the Occupy London movement and the Arab Spring.

Communities are now more mobilised and connected than ever, and Beyond Gated Communities shows how neighbourhoods can become part of a global network beyond their own gates. With chapters on Australia, Canada, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this is a truly international resource for scholars and students of urban studies interested in this dynamic, growing area of research."

Beyond Gated Communities

E-newsletter Development Challenges, South-South Solutions (UNOSSC) cited in Beyond Gated Communities (2015).

Chile in Transition: Prospects and Challenges for Latin America's Forerunner of Development by Roland Benedikter and Katja Siepmann (Springer: 2015)

"The economic, political and social situation in Chile shows a country in transition. Some observers anticipate a broad “reboot” of the nation. While Chile is still seen by many as an example of progress in South America and of developmental potential in the global South, it faces a complex political constellation, particularly in the aftermath of the re-election of Michelle Bachelet. Many wonder how social and institutional innovations can be incepted without interrupting the country’s remarkable success over the past decades.

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Chile’s situation and perspectives. In particular, it addresses the questions:

• What is Chile’s real socio-political situation behind the curtains, irrespective of simplifications?
• What are the nation’s main opportunities and problems?
• What future strategies will be concretely applicable to improve social balance and mitigate ideological divisions?

The result is a provocative examination of a nation in search of identity and its role on the global stage.

Roland Benedikter, Dr., is Research Scholar at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Senior Research Scholar of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Washington D.C., Trustee of the Toynbee Prize Foundation Boston and Full Member of the Club of Rome.

Katja Siepmann, MA, is Senior Research Fellow of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs Washington D.C., Member of the German Council on Foreign Relations, and Lecturer at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Cultural Sciences of the European University Frankfurt/Oder.

The volume features a Foreword by Ned Strong, Executive Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, and a Preface by Larry Birns, Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Washington D.C., and Former Senior Public Affairs Officer of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America (Santiago, Chile)."

Chile in Transition: Prospects and Challenges for Latin America's Forerunner of Development

A Sociological Approach to Health Determinants by Toni Schofield (Cambridge University Press: 2015)

"A Sociological Approach to Health Determinants investigates how the social works in determining health and health inequity. Taking a global perspective, the book shines a light on how experiences of health, illness and health care are shaped by a variety of complex social dynamics. Informed primarily by sociology, the book engages with the WHO's social determinants of health approach and draws on contributions from history, political economy and policy analysis to examine issues such as class, gender, ethnicity and indigeneity, and the impact they have on health. A Sociological Approach to Health Determinants is a comprehensive resource that provides a new perspective on the influence of social structures on health, and how our understanding of the social can ensure improved health outcomes for people all over the globe. Toni Schofield is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. She specialises in research and teaching in sociology, and public policy and administration."

A Sociological Approach to Health Determinants

New Directions in Children's and Adolescents' Information Behavior Research edited by Dania Bilal and Jamshid Beheshti (Emerald Group Publishing: 2014)

"This book comprises innovative research on the information behavior of various age groups. It also looks at special populations such as ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, and users with disabilities. The book presents research and reflections on designing systems that help the new generation cope with a complex knowledge society.

New Directions in Children's and Adolescents' Information Behavior Research

Papers and Reports

Afro-futurism and the aesthetics of hope in Bekolo's Les Saignantes and Kahiu's Pumzi by Mich Nyawalo, Journal of the African Literature Association, Volume 10, 2016, Issue 2

Autonomous Systems in the Intelligence Community: Many Possibilities and Challenges by Jenny R. Holzer, PhD, and Franklin L. Moses, PhD, Studies in Intelligence Vol 59, No. 1 (Extracts, March 2015)

Decoding the Brand DNA: A Design Methodology Applied to Favela Fashion by Magali Olhats, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Florianopolis, 2012

Economy Reports for APEC Economies on demographics, policies & ICT applications for people with Special Needs (Seniors and People with Disabilities), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group, January 2013

Edible Insects and the Future of Food: A Foresight Scenario Exercise on Entomophagy and Global Food Security by Dominic Glover and Alexandra Sexton, Institute of Development Studies, King’s College London, Evidence Report No 149, September 2015

Evaluation of Kenyan Film Industry: Historical Perspective by Edwin Ngure Nyutho, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Nairobi, 2015

Evaluation of the Regional Programme for Africa (2008-2013), UNDP Independent Evaluation Office, 2013

Evaluation of UNDP Contribution to South-South and Triangular Cooperation (2008-2011), Evaluation Office, UNDP 2013

Financing Renewable Energy in Developing Countries: Analysis of Business Models and Best Practices, Resources Future Publication, Pakistan Office, July 2018

Gastrodiplomacy: foreign experience and potential of the republic of Uzbekistan by M. Abduazimov, International Relations: Politics, Economics, Law, 2017 

High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation Seventeenth Session: Framework of operational guidelines on United Nations support to South-South and triangular cooperation: Note by the Secretary-General, 22-25 May 2012, New York

Milk Production Potential and Major Browse Species Consumed by Dromedary Camels in Tshabong by Katsane Kgaudi, Eyassu Seifu and Demel Teketay, A Special Issue on Botswana Notes and Records' Golden Jubilee Volume in Honour of Sir Ketumile Masire, Volume 50, 2018

Mobilising Finance for Infrastructure: A Study for the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Cambridge Economic Policy Associates Ltd., August 2015

Modelo de Negocio para la Visibilizacion de Atributos Culturales Y Ambientales de Sistemas de Produccion Indigena. Caso de Estudio: Municipio de Puerto Narino - Amazonas (Colombia) by Juan Sebastian Romero Berbeo, Universidad Piloto de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales Programa en Administracion y Gestion Ambiental, 2016

The New Middle Class and Urban Transformation in Africa: A Case Study of Accra, Ghana by Komiete Tetteh, The University of British Colombia, 2016

Propagating Gender Struggles Through Nollywood: Towards a Transformative Approach by Nita Byack George Iruobe, Geonita Initiative for Women and Child Development, 17 July 2015

Reberberation: Musicians and the Mobilization of Tradition in the Berber Culture Movement by TMG Wiedenkenner et al, The University of Arizona,  2013

Recasting 'truisms' of low carbon technology cooperation through innovation systems: insights from the developing world by Alexandra Mallett, Innovation and Development, 5:2, 297-311, DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2015.1049851, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

"Slam the Slums": Understanding architecture through the poor by Malini Foobalan, November 26th, 2009

Song Lines: Mapping the South African Live Performance Landscape: Report of the CSA 2013 Live Mapping Project Compiled by Concerts South Africa, Samro Foundation, 2013 

Strategic Framework of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, 2014-2017, Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Office for Project Services, 27 to 31 January 2014, New York

Wearing Your Map on Your Sleeve: Practices of Identification in the Creation and Consumption of Philippine Map T-shirts by Pamela Gloria Cajilig, paper presented at the 6th Global Conference (2014): Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues, Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, 15th to 18th September 2014

Young Girls' Affective Responses to Access and Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Information-Poor Societies by Dania Bilal et al, New Directions in Children's and Adolescents' Information Behavior Research, Library and Information Science, Volume 10, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014

Youth Empowered as Catalysts for Sustainable Human Development: UNDP Youth Strategy 2014-2017, United Nations Development Programme, Bureau for Development Policy

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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.

Southern Innovator Issue 4 Launches in Nairobi, Kenya at Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD) 2013 | 5 November 2013

Volunteers help launch Southern Innovator’s fourth issue at the Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) in Nairobi, Kenya.

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 (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.