Southern Innovator on the UNOSSC Website | November 2017

Southern Innovator among the South-South publications available from the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC).

Southern Innovator among the South-South publications available from the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC).

All five issues of Southern Innovator available from the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC).

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Getting Read Matters: International Development Publications | 11 June 2016

 

As the Internet has grown, those working in development have responded in kind by broadening access to what they write: publishing online is now routine. There are many platforms out there encouraging transparent publishing - www.archive.org, www.scribd.com, www.slideshare.net, www.academia.edu, www.books.google.com, etc. - making it easy to share.

For decades, international development organizations have run vast publishing and research programmes. But prior to the Internet, it was just not possible to access this material and the knowledge and data within without a trip to the library or a UN HQ. The Internet has made it much easier to find out what is out there but there is still the thorny issue of "is anyone reading this stuff?". One survey unearthed a problem: many publications were being read by a very small audience, or nobody at all.

A survey in 2014 of the World Bank's publications, for example, produced a shocking result: it found a third of their publications are never downloaded, 40 per cent were downloaded just 100 times, and only 13 per cent were downloaded more than 250 times in their lifetime (The Washington Post). As The Washington Post pointed out, these are publicly funded publications with the intention of contributing to policy debates and providing solutions to the world's problems. So, if nobody is reading them, or just a handful are, that actually does matter if you care about positive change in the world.

We pride ourselves on creating publications that actually get read. It is risky: when you inspire people, they may just act on what you write. The gatekeepers of development knowledge have developed many ways to uninspire people: they bury documents in jargon and obfuscation, they don't bother telling anyone about a publication, they charge people who can least afford to pay for the publication first-world, dollar prices. Or, as has happened more and more these days, they contact Google to try and get publications obliterated from search engines, so nobody can find them in the first place.

We draw on experience gleaned from working with complex organizations staffed by highly educated people doing complicated things. This has included working on the UN's communications during a severe crisis in late 1990s Mongolia, transforming online access to child health resources for the UK's NHS, and championing innovation across the global South.

The Scribd platform is used by many public bodies to archive documents. It is as good a place as any to make a comparison. So, how do our various resources compare when it comes to communicating on the topics of innovation/innovators, human development and the global South?

How has Southern Innovator's first five issues faired on Scribd?:

And if we search using the words 'global South innovator', we can compare Southern Innovator with other publications and see how many views each has had:

In 1997 I worked as the Managing Editor for the first Mongolian Human Development Report while serving as Head of Communications for the UN in Mongolia. Read more about this project here: http://www.davidsouthconsulting.com/case-studies/human-development-report-mongolia-1997.html. It still attracts readers all these years later.

 

Southern Innovator has become one of the most viewed resources on Scribd for UNDP and innovators, human development and innovators, and global South and innovators.

Southern Innovator Impact Summary 1: http://www.slideshare.net/DavidSouth1/handout-flyer-finalaug14cropmarks

Southern Innovator Impact Summary 2: http://www.slideshare.net/DavidSouth1/si-impact-summaryjan2014final

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

Accessing Global Markets Via Design Solutions, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions, March 2009

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

Baker Cookstoves - Designing for the African Customer, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions, December 2013

Banning of Plastic Bags and Containers Brings New Opportunities, Southern Innovator Issue 5, 2014

Big Data Can Transform the Global South's Growing Cities, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions, June 2014

The Big Dump: CP’s new operational plan leaves critics with questions aplenty, Scan Magazine, June/July 1997

Biogas Digester-in-a-Bag Brings Portability, Southern Innovator Issue 5, 2014

Cities for All shows how the world's poor are building ties across the global South, Global Urbanist, 24 August 2010

Colombian Architect Proving Strength and Beauty of Bamboo, Southern Innovator Issue 4, 2013

Cooking Bag Helps Poor Households Save Time, Money, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions, April 2012

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

Illiterate Get Internet at Touch of a Button, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions, April 2008

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

Mobile Phone Microscopes to Revolutionize Health Diagnostics, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions, July 2013

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

Solar Sisters Doing it for Themselves: Tackling African Light Famine, Southern Innovator Issue 2, 2012

South African Wine Industry Uncorks Opportunities, Southern Innovator Issue 2, 2012

South-South Cooperation for Cities in Asia, Southasiadisasters.net, July 2014

South-South Trade Helping Countries During Economic Crisis, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions, June 2014

Starting from Scratch: The Challenge of Transition, UNV News, November 1997

State of Decay: Haiti Turns to Free-market economics and the UN to Save Itself, Id Magazine (Canada), 11-25 July 1996

Study Says Jetliner Air Quality Poses Health Risks: CUPE Takes on Airline Industry with Findings on Survey, Now Magazine, 11-17 March 1993

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

Undercurrents: A Cancellation at CBC TV Raises a Host of Issues for the Future, Scan Magazine, April/May 1997

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

Southern Innovator and the Growing Global Innovation Culture: Background Paper for the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC)

Publications

2000 to Present

Development Challenges, South-South Solutions Newsletter, 2007-2014, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (ISSN 2227-3905)

Evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals Education Media Project, 2005, UNDP Mongolia

GOSH Child Health Portal

 

A Marketing and e-Marketing Strategy – the New SASVO, 2004-2005, UNDP South Africa

Southern Innovator and Development Challenges, South-South Solutions Summary of Impact: 2007-2012, 2015, David South Consulting

Southern Innovator Magazine from 2011 to 2012: A Compilation of Documents from the Magazine's Early Years, 2015, David South Consulting

Southern Innovator Magazine from 2012 to 2014: A Compilation of Documents from the Magazine's Recent Years, 2015, David South Consulting

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

Environmental Public Awareness Handbook: Case Studies and Lessons Learned in Mongolia, 1999 (ISBN 992950137)

Ger Magazine, 1998-1999, UNDP Mongolia Communications Office

Ger Magazine: Modern Life Issue

Ger Magazine: Youth Issue

Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine Newsletter, 1992-1994

Human Development Report Mongolia 1997

Id Magazine

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 Green Book

Mongolian Rock and Pop Book (ISBN 99929-5-018-8)

Mongolia Update - Coverage of 1998 Political Changes

Mongolia Update 1997

Mongolia Update 1998

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

Watch Magazine

Citations

Dateline Mongolia: An American Journalist in Nomad’s Land by Michael Kohn, RDR Books, 2006, ISBN 1-57143-155-1

The Devil and the Disappearing Sea: A True Story About the Aral Sea Catastrophe by Robert Ferguson, Raincoast Books, 2003, ISBN 1-55192-599-0

The Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Mongolia by Peter K. Marsh, Taylor and Francis, 2008, ISBN 041597156X, 9780415971560

Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists by Morris Rossabi, University of California Press, 2005, ISBN 0-520-24399-4

Mongolian Rock and Pop: In Our Own Voice (in Mongolian), ISBN 99929-5-018-8

Recollections of a Neighbourhood: Huron-Sussex from UTS to Stop Spadina by Nancy Williams and Marie Scott-Baron (Eds.), Words Indeed Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-0-9865166-4-1

Wild East: Travels in the New Mongolia by Jill Lawless, ECW Press, 2000, ISBN 1-55022-434-4 (www.wildeast.ca)

Blue Sky Bulletin

Bounty from the Sheep: Autobiography of a Herdsman by Tserendashiin Namkhainiambuu, Inner Asia Book Series, White Horse, 2000

Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists by Morris Rossabi, University of California Press, 2005

Mongols from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands edited by Ole Bruun and Li Narangoa, Issue 34 of NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, Nordisk Institut for Asienstudier, NIAS Press, 2006

Ger Magazine

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

Mongolian Culture and Society in the Age of Globalization by Henry G. Schwarz (editor), Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University, 2006

Nations in Transition: Mongolia by Jennifer L. Hanson, Infobase Publishing, 2003

Teen Life in Asia by Judith J. Slater, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004

World Press Encyclopedia: A Survey of Press Systems Worldwide, Volume 1 by Amanda C. Quick, Gale Group, 2003

www.gosh.nhs.uk

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

Research Review 2002: Building on Success, Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, 2002 

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

Diseases of Globalization: Socioeconomic Transition and Health by Christine McMurray and Roy Smith, Routledge, 2013

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

Group Behaviour and Development: Is the Market Destroying Cooperation? by Judith Heyer, Frances Stewart, Rosemary Thorp, OUP Oxford, 2002

Higher Education in the Developing World: Changing Contexts and Institutional Responses by David W. Chapman and Ann E. Austin, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002

Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists by Morris Rossabi, University of California Press, 2005

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

Truth, History and Politics in Mongolia: Memory of Heroes by Christopher Kaplonski, Routledge, 2004

Mongolia Update 1998

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.

  

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