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David South Consulting Scale-up | 2017
Pitch + Vision
The time has never been more urgent and propitious for our work. As we travelled the world producing content for the UN's Development Challenges, South-South Solutions e-newsletter and the groundbreaking magazine Southern Innovator, we also developed two Action Plans. One was developed in partnership with the UNOSSC to scale-up Southern Innovator magazine. Whilst that experienced significant obstacles we were only to discover as a result of various court cases (more on this here: The Strange Saga of South-South News), the other Action Plan was for scaling up David South Consulting. And that we are full steam ahead with!
David South Consulting will be structured as follows:
1) Headquarters and domicile: London, UK. Our mobile products are developed at the Google Campus London for Startups.
2) Global Hub: Geneva, Switzerland.
3) Data Centre: Reykjavik, Iceland.
I will sketch out the vision further below and can give greater detail to interested partners and/or investors. In the course of working in international development since 1997 (either as a consultant or staff member), I have developed significant insights into what works and what does not. I have also worked with or met some amazing people and talents along the way. I have had the privilege of seeing first-hand the breadth and reach of the international system, visiting and working in its headquarters and sprawling 'campuses', from Geneva to Nairobi.
I have worked with some outstanding clients who in turn have shaped new thinking in the international realm. And it is time to put all that experience to good use. The world faces an epochal turning point. In the course of researching the e-newsletter and the magazine, I saw first-hand not only the scale of the challenges but also the solutions that either already exist or just need that extra push to be deployed.
Looking back on three decades of working internationally and chronicling its vicissitudes, a few things stand out: one is an ability to spot trends, another is to make strategic interventions that move things along, and finally, an ability to work ethically, and with a joy for the adventure of the journey and the amazing people you meet along the way.
Partners
Funding Phases
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Past Work
Impact
Testimonials
Documents
We accept payments and donations here: https://www.paypal.me/davidsouthconsulting
© David South Consulting 2017
David South Consulting Publications At a Glance | 18 January 2016
Experience
I am an international development consultant with over 19 years’ experience. I specialise in media, health communications, development strategies, project management and publishing. I have led high-profile projects in Asia, Canada and the UK. This work has included a number of groundbreaking, award-winning new media projects.
United Nations Global Marketplace (ungm.org) Vendor.
Read the David South Consulting Summary of Impact here: http://books.google.co.uk/books/about?id=1FdyBgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
Read the Southern Innovator Summary of Impact here: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lK4jBgAAQBAJ&dq=southern+innovator+summary+of+impact&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Methodology
I have managed and delivered projects to tight deadlines, with extensive public scrutiny and under difficult country conditions. I keep a cool head and am a seasoned trouble-shooter.
Education
University of Toronto: BA Honours in Political Science and History
Courses
BBC: Managing Complex New Media Projects
International Health Exchange: Humanitarian Aid: Policies and Practice
Languages
English, Mongolian
Articles
Africa's Fast-growing Cities: A New Frontier of Opportunities, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
African Megacity Makeovers Tackle Rising Populations, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
Banning of Plastic Bags and Containers Brings New Opportunities, Southern Innovator Issue 5, 2014
Biogas Digester-in-a-Bag Brings Portability, Southern Innovator Issue 5, 2014
Colombian Architect Proving Strength and Beauty of Bamboo, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
Connoisseur Chocolate from the South Gets a Higher Price, Southern Innovator Issue 3, 2012
Creating Green Fashion in China, Southern Innovator Issue 5, 2014
Debt-free Homes for the Poor, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions, January 2009
Eco-cities Up Close, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
Energy-efficient Wooden Houses Are Also Earthquake Safe, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
Freedom of Expression, UNV News, 5 June 1999
Growing a Southern Brand to Global Success: The Olam Story, Southern Innovator Issue 3, 2012
Housing Innovation in South's Urban Areas, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
Indonesian Wooden Radio Succeeds with Good Design, Southern Innovator Issue 5, 2014
Innovation: Cairo's Green Technology Pioneers, Southern Innovator Issue 5, 2014
Innovations in Green Economy: Top Three Agenda, Southasiadisasters.net, December 2013
Insects Can Help in Food Crisis, Southern Innovator Issue 3, 2012
Lamas Against AIDS, UB Post (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), 5 November 1997
Lima to Delhi: What can be Learned on Urban Resilience?, Southasiadisasters.net, March 2015
Making the World a Better Place for Southern Projects, Southern Innovator Issue 1, 2011
Model Cities across the South Challenge Old Ways, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
Mongolia Looks to Become Asian IT Leader, Southern Innovator Issue 1, 2011
A New House Kit for Slum Dwellers that is Safe and Easy to Build, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
New Weapon Against Crime in the South, Southern Innovator Issue 1, 2011
Philippine Architect Wants to Transform Slum with New Plan, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
Philippine Conference Tackles Asia's AIDS Crisis, UB Post (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia), 28 October 1997
Safety at Stake, Annex Gleaner (Toronto, Canada), February 1997
Smart Cities Up Close, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
South African Wine Industry Uncorks Opportunities, Southern Innovator Issue 2, 2012
South-South Cooperation for Cities in Asia, Southasiadisasters.net, July 2014
Starting from Scratch: The Challenge of Transition, UNV News, November 1997
Take Two Big Doses of Humanity and Call Me in the Morning, The Toronto Star, 1 January 1993
Taking Medicine to the People, Canadian Living, January 1993
Texting for Cheaper Food with SokoText, Southern Innovator Issue 5, 2014
Tiny Homes to Meet Global Housing Crisis, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013
2011 Trends for the South, David South Consulting, January 2011
Urban Farming to Tackle Global Food Crisis, Southern Innovator Issue 3, 2012
Youth Surge in the South: A Great Business Opportunity, Southern Innovator Issue 2, 2012
Papers
Publications
2000 to Present
Evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals Education Media Project, 2005, UNDP Mongolia
A Marketing and e-Marketing Strategy – the New SASVO, 2004-2005, UNDP South Africa
Southern Innovator Magazine: Agribusiness and Food Security Issue E-Version (ISSN 2227-0523)
Southern Innovator Magazine: Cities and Urbanization Issue (ISBN 978-0-9920217-0-2) (ISSN 2222-9280)
Southern Innovator Magazine: Mobile Phones and Information Technology Issue (ISSN 2222-9280)
Southern Innovator Magazine: Waste and Recycling Issue (ISBN 978-0-9920217-1-9) (ISSN 2222-9280)
Southern Innovator Magazine: Youth and Entrepreneurship Issue E-Version (ISSN 2227-0523)
UNDAF Annual Review 2005: A Partnership Between the Government of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Country Team
UNDP Mongolia Partnership for Progress 1997 to 1999 Key Documents, 2015, David South Consulting
1990 to 2000
Blue Sky Bulletin Issue Number 1
Blue Sky Bulletin Issue Number 2
Blue Sky Bulletin Issue Number 3
Blue Sky Bulletin Issue Number 4
Blue Sky Bulletin Issue Number 5
Blue Sky Bulletin Issue Number 6
Blue Sky Bulletin Issue Number 7
Blue Sky Bulletin Issue Number 8
Blue Sky Bulletin Issue Number 9
Blue Sky Bulletin Issue Number 10
Ger Magazine, 1998-1999, UNDP Mongolia Communications Office
Ger Magazine: Modern Life Issue
Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine Newsletter, 1992-1994
Human Development Report Mongolia 1997
In Their Own Words: Selected Writings by Journalists on Mongolia, 1997-1999 (ISBN 99929-5-043-9)
Mongolian AIDS Bulletin, 1997, UNDP Mongolia Communications Office
Mongolian Rock and Pop Book (ISBN 99929-5-018-8)
Mongolia Update - Coverage of 1998 Political Changes
Mongolia Update 1997
Mongolia Update 1999
New Media Markets, 1995, Financial Times Newsletters
Partnership for Progress (UNDP Mongolia)
Peril and Promise: Higher Education in Developing Countries, 1999, World Bank/UNESCO Task Force on Higher Education (for River Path Associates)
Screen Finance, 1995, Financial Times Newsletters
UN Mongolia Annual Report, 1997-1998, UNDP Mongolia Communications Office
UNDP Mongolia Online Development Portal, 1997-1999, UNDP Mongolia Communications Office
UNDP in Mongolia: The Guide, 1997-1999, UNDP Mongolia Communications Office
Citations
Mongolian Rock and Pop: In Our Own Voice (in Mongolian), ISBN 99929-5-018-8
Wild East: Travels in the New Mongolia by Jill Lawless, ECW Press, 2000, ISBN 1-55022-434-4 (www.wildeast.ca)
A Complete Guide on Celebrations, Festivals and Holidays around the World by Sarah Whelan, Asteroid Content, 2015
Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media by Jeff Summer, Gale Group, 2001
Mongol Survey, Issue 8, The Society, 2001
Nations in Transition: Mongolia by Jennifer L. Hanson, Infobase Publishing, 2003
Teen Life in Asia by Judith J. Slater, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004
GOSH Child Health Portal Phase 1a by David South, 2003
GOSH Child Health Portal Phase 1b by David South, 2003
GOSH Child Health Portal Phase 2a by David South, 2003
GOSH Child Health Portal Phase 2b by David South, 2003
GOSH Child Health Portal Phase 3 by David South, 2003
GOSH Project Launch Brochure and Screen Grabs, 2001-2003 by David South, 2003
The Great Ormond Street Hospital Manual of Children's Nursing Practices by Susan Macqueen, Elizabeth Bruce and Faith Gibson, John Wiley & Sons, 2012
Help! My Child's in Hospital by Becky Wauchope, Marbec Family Trust, 2012
Oxford Desk Reference: Nephrology by Jonathan Barratt, Peter Topham and Kevin P. G. Harris, Oxford University Press, 2008
Research Review 2001: A Year of Excellence and Innovation, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, 2001
Human Development Report Mongolia 1997
Change in Democratic Mongolia: Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining, 2012
Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries: An Impossible Dream? by Jon S. T. Quah, Emerald Group Publishing, 2011
Economic Institutions and Democratic Reform: A Comparative Analysis of Post-communist Countries by Ole Norgaard, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000
Educational Import: Local Encounters with Global Forces in Mongolia by Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Ines Stolpe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Higher Education in the Developing World: Changing Contexts and Institutional Responses by David W. Chapman and Ann E. Austin, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002
Precious Steppe: Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market by Ole Bruun, Lexington Books, 2008
Rethinking Development in East Asia: From Illusory Miracle to Economic Crisis by Pietro Masina, Routledge, 2012
Bounty from the Sheep: Autobiography of a Herdsman by Tserendashiin Namkhainiambuu, Inner Asia Book Series, White Horse, 2000
Selection and Preparation of Australian Expatriates and Business People for Postings in Mongolia by Gantsetseg O’Brien and Greg Trotman, Department of Marketing, International Business and Tourism, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, Working Paper 99/3, December 1999. Website: http://research.usc.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/usc:2914
Semi-Presidentialism Outside Europe: A Comparative Study edited by Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup, Routledge, 2007
Transition and Democracy in Mongolia by Richard Pomfret, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2000, 149-160. Website: http://www.jstor.org/pss/153756
Southern Innovator (www.southerninnovator.org)
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)
Chile in Transition: Prospects and Challenges for Latin America's Forerunner of Development by Roland Benedikter and Katja Siepmann, Springer, 2015
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
Export Now: Five Keys to Entering New Markets by Frank Lavin and Peter Cohan, John Wiley & Sons, 2011
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
New Directions in Children’s and Adolescents’ Information Behavior Research edited by Dania Bilal and Jamshid Beheshti, Emerald Group Publishing, 2014
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
A Sociological Approach to Health Determinants by Toni Schofield, Cambridge University Press, 2016
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
Youth Empowered as Catalysts for Sustainable Human Development: UNDP Youth Strategy 2014-2017, United Nations Development Programme, Bureau for Development Policy
www.un-mongolia.mn
Asian Perspective, Volume 25, Insitute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyung Nam University, 2001
Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan, An Exhibit of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Rethinking Development in East Asia: From Illusory Miracle to Economic Crisis by Pietro Masina, Routledge, 2012
Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law, Volume 7, 1999
Wikipedia page: Read about the Ger Magazine project from 1998 to 2000 on its new Wikipedia page. Ger Magazine was Mongolia's first online magazine and was launched in the middle of the twin crises of the biggest peacetime, post-WWII economic collapse and the 1997 to 1998 Asian Crisis. The country was also experiencing the consequences of shock therapy and austerity measures.
David South Consulting Now Mobile Friendly | 17 December 2015
David South Consulting will launch new online and mobile resources for 2016. As a great short-term solution, the website is now mobile friendly using Duda Mobile, allowing mobile users to view the site in a mobile-friendly format. With the majority of the world's population accessing the web through mobile devices, it made sense to make the content accessible to even more people. The website in mobile form is below: