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.    

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Phase 1

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Phase 3

Past Work

Impact

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

 © David South Consulting 2017

UNDP Clients | 1997 - 2014

UNDP Mongolia Communications Office 

A sample of the many publications developed by the UNDP Mongolia Communications Office between 1997 and 1999. Photographed in our London, UK HQ.

UNDP Mongolia staff photo 1997. I served for two years as the UNDP Mongolia head of communications (1997-1999). I am sitting front row centre left of the UN Resident Coordinator Douglas Gardner.

United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC)

Resulting from the influential UN e-newsletter Development Challenges, South-South Solutions, Southern Innovator magazine published five issues between 2011 and 2014. Designed by Solveig Rolfsdottir in Iceland using 100% renewable energy.

Senior Partner David South at the Sydney Opera House in 2013.

© David South Consulting 2017