Southern Innovator Scale-up | 2017

Pitch + Vision

Team Biographies

Funding Phases

Phase 1

Design Specifications for Southern Innovator Magazine 1.0

Southern Innovator (2007-2017)

Editor-in-Chief: Cosmas Gitta

Editor and Writer: David South

Consultant: David South

Magazine

Editor-in-Chief: Cosmas Gitta

Editor and Writer: David South

Consultant: David South

Managing Editor: Audette Bruce

Copy Editor: Barbara Brewka

Circulation Manager: Amanda Armoogam

Published: 2011 to 2015

Electronic issues: ISSN 2222-9280

Issue 3: ISSN 2227-0523  

Issue 4: ISBN 978-0-9920217-0-2

Issue 5: ISBN 978-0-9920217-1-9

Font: Akkurat

Format: 60 pages full colour

Paper: Paper from responsible sources www.fsc.org and Nordic Ecolabelled Printer 141825

Energy: 100% renewable sources

Produced according to the UN Global Compact unglobalcompact.org

Countries: Canada/Iceland/United Kingdom/USA

Development Team (2010-2011)

Editor-in-Chief: Cosmas Gitta

Editor and Writer: David South

Managing Editor: Audette Bruce

Copy Editor: Barbara Brewka

Graphic Designer and Illustrator: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir 

Design and Layout: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir and Eva Hronn Gudnadóttir

Commissioned by: United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC)

Contracted by: United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) unops.org

Implemented by: David South Consulting (United Nations Global Marketplace Vendor 375229) and solla.net

Website (www.southerninnovator.org)

Archive: www.southerninnovator.com 

Launched: 2011 

Location: New York, New York, USA

Web Design: Carina Figurasin

Content: David South

E-Newsletter (2006-2014)

Launched: 2006

Location: New York, New York, USA

Editor-in-Chief: Cosmas Gitta

Researcher and Writer: David South

Consultant: David South

Social Media and Social Sharing (2007-present)

Location: London, UK

Head: David South

Phase 2

High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation, Nineteenth Session, New York, 16-19 May 2016.

In 2016, the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation urged the UNOSSC to re-start funding the publication of Southern Innovator Magazine and the influential e-newsletter Development Challenges, South-South Solutions.

Phase 3

Back Issues 

Impact 

Testimonials 

"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"

“@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)

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

"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)

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Southern Innovator Scale-Up Begins: Get on Board! | 4 June 2015

 

Southern Innovator achieved a great deal during its first phase. The magazine’s concept was beta tested as five issues were developed and rolled out across the global South. Feedback and comments came in from around the world and the magazine was refined based on user responses and experience.

During this time, a plan was developed to scale-up Southern Innovator over the next five years. We would like to do this in two phases. Contact us to learn more about the plan, what resources we require and how to get involved. What is on offer is truly remarkable: an ability to connect with the best and brightest of the global South at the very moment they are shaping the new world of the 21st century. Many have failed to grasp this opportunity and thus have been heavily damaged during the economic crisis; principally because they have failed to understand profound global changes and to see how they can use them to improve what they are doing (though, if they had been reading Southern Innovator, they would have been very clued up!).

Southern Innovator is a product of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), so it is able to directly plug into the UN’s network of global resources helping countries and people. This is a substantial resource and not to be overlooked. Getting involved gets you plugged in and switched on!

http://www.davidsouthconsulting.com/case-studies/southern-innovator-magazine-2015-2017.html

Southern Innovator Summary of Impact 2015

Southern Innovator Issue 3 Mock-up Ready and Awaiting Sign-off | 23 July 2012

Issue 3 of Southern Innovator has been completed and is now receiving its final check to make sure the copy is as correct as is possible. A tentative publishing date will be sometime in August. While we wait on the wheels to turn, work is already underway on issues 4 and 5. The themes are Cities and Urbanization (Issue 4) and Waste and Recycling (Issue 5). If you are a potential advertiser or sponsor, then consider the release dates for these issues to be autumn and winter of 2012. In the photograph below, the first three issues are shown in a spine view together for the first time. It is possible now to see how the design allows for continuity from issue to issue and makes collecting all the issues of Southern Innovator a smart way to keep your bookshelves looking handsome and relevant.

The first three issues of Southern Innovator magazine.

Bringing Modern Design to British Healthcare | 7 November 2010

Expertise: Strategy, vision, team leadership, managing suppliers, design vision, digital strategy, content creation, editing, project management, innovation, child health, public health, modernising large institutions. 

Location: London, UK 2001 to 2003

Project Manager: David South

Charity Content Coordinator: Ramita Navai

Click here to view images for this case study: CASE STUDY 5: GOSH/ICH Child Health Portal | 2001 - 2003 Images

From 2001 to 2003, I led a transformational project simultaneously bringing a modern child health web portal and a modern online brand image, to the UK’s top children’s hospital. For younger people, it will be difficult to recall how out of step the UK was with the wider developments in new media and design at the start of the 2000s. My work in Mongolia, an isolated Northeastern Asian nation undergoing the worst post-WWII economic crisis in the 1990s, proved valuable in guiding the GOSH Child Health Portal project. Understanding the value of the internet as a communications tool, and how critical design and strategy were to the successful use of this technology, came about from raw need. The combination of geographical isolation and the urgent desire to communicate with the wider world, meant innovation was the only route to take. I dug out this image from the archive that sums it up nicely: on the left is before the launch, on the right after the launch:

Another key element to the success of the project was communication. It was highly unusual at the time for a health service project to so publicly and transparently communicate its progress and achievements. At every stage and milestone, the project team informed the wider public, the national and international media and colleagues and patients and their families about what was happening and what needed to be done. Below is a typical excerpt from the hospital’s newsletter:

Fast-paced and award-winning, the GOSH Child Health Portal deployed a number of techniques pioneered in my work in Mongolia. It partnered with high-quality content-makers such as the BBC and drew on the talent and expertise embedded in the organisation. It created a cascading cycle of success and achievement. Some of the design from the project is below:

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