Southern Innovator Magazine | 2010 - 2014
Southern Innovator in Tianjin, China.
Issue 5 of Southern Innovator at the Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) 2014 held in Washington, D.C.
Volunteers in Nairobi, Kenya pose with Southern Innovator Issue 4 at the Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) in 2013.
Southern Innovator Editor and Writer David South in Australia.
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Southern Innovator Editor and Writer David South.
The @SouthSouth1 Twitter page offers regular updates on the magazine and innovation across the global South:
Southern Innovator is held in the following library collections:
Library of Congress: https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=4750&recCount=25&recPointer=0&bibId=17462965
Malaysian Academic Library Union: http://malcat.uum.edu.my/kip/Record/ukm.vtls003513851
David South
Press Release for General Distribution 
New Magazine Targets Innovators in Global South
United Nations, New York, 20 September 2011
• Global magazine Southern Innovator profiles innovation
culture ending poverty
• 60-page color magazine gives snapshot of fast-changing
world
Southern Innovator is a new magazine for a fast-changing world. It 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, Southern
Innovator features the people who are re-shaping new technologies – from
mobile phone ‘apps’ to Internet technologies - to overcome poverty and to
improve the quality of life in some of the poorest places on earth.
SI is based on intensive research and is produced by UNDP’s Special Unit for
South-South Cooperation (www.southerninnovator.org). The Unit is the
leading organisation in the world tasked with the goal of sharing knowledge
across the global South. It organises events including the yearly South-South
Expo (www.southsouthexpo.org), a roaming celebration and gathering of
Southern innovators previously held in New York and Geneva, Switzerland.
This year’s Expo will be held in Rome, Italy (5 to 9 December 2011).
SI is being distributed around the world through the United Nations network
and partners and reaches some of the 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. The magazine will evolve based on
reader responses and this first issue is very much the beginning of a journey.
As became clear while researching this first issue, many things can change in
a short space of time. Few could have imagined the rapid take-up of mobile
phones in Africa and how these phones have become integral to development
goals across the continent.
SI magazine is a quarterly publication and the next issues will launch in
September and December of this year.
A summary for publication is here:
“Southern Innovator (ISSN 2222-9280) is a quarterly magazine published by
the United Nations Development Programme’s Special Unit for South-South
Cooperation. Launched in May 2011, SI is a new magazine celebrating
creativity and innovation emerging from the global South. It explores
entrepreneurial solutions to development challenges and uncovers the trends
and events shaping the rise of the South in order to spur action on ending
extreme poverty and toward reaching the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs).”
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.
For more information on Southern Innovator contact Cosmas Gitta at
cosmas.gitta@undp.org or editor David South at
southerninnovator@yahoo.co.uk.
www.southerninnovator.org
David South
Press Release for General Distribution 
Fourth Issue of UNDP Magazine Southern Innovator Launches at GSSD Expo
United Nations, Nairobi, Kenya, 31 October 2013
• Fourth issue of Southern Innovator launched at Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) 2013
in Nairobi, Kenya
• 60-page color magazine gives snapshot of fast-changing world
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 (GSSD 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.
For more information on Southern Innovator, contact Cosmas Gitta at
cosmas.gitta@undp.org.
Online archives: southerninnovator.org; http://www.scribd.com/SouthernInnovator. Follow @SouthSouth1
David South
Press Release for General Distribution 
Southern Innovator’s Fifth Issue Profiles Innovators in Waste and Recycling
United Nations, New York, USA, 28 April 2014
• Fifth issue of Southern Innovator tackles ways to improve human development in a world with finite resources
• 60-page color magazine offers a snapshot of our fast-changing world
The fifth issue of Southern Innovator (SI) magazine is out now. It explores how innovation can tackle the challenges of improving human development on a planet with finite resources.
SI researchers identified innovative, low-polluting options to the world's energy needs. They found that it is possible to alter the way that things are made to reduce or eliminate waste and toxic pollutants harming human health and damaging the environment. And not only that: they also discovered that there are sustainable incomes to be made from the economy of waste reduction and recycling – an opportunity that has yet to be fully realized. The innovations shared here demonstrate that raising living standards in the global South and responsible use of the world's resources are not necessarily incompatible.
Some innovators are transforming attitudes towards fashion, proving that it does not have to be a wasteful industry. Others are turning commonly found waste – food waste, or human or animal excrement – into fuel for heating. The link between good design and the efficient use of resources is apparent in many of the innovators’ solutions. If a new, green economy is to work, then it must appeal to people's aspirations and be something that they want in their lives and are willing to work to achieve.
Southern Innovator (southerninnovator.org) champions a 21st-century global innovator culture. It is based on intensive research and produced by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) in UNDP. UNOSSC also organizes the annual Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) (southsouthexpo.org), a traveling celebration bringing together Southern innovators, with previous venues in New York, Washington, D.C., Geneva, Rome,Vienna, Nairobi and Doha.
We hope that you enjoy the magazine and find its content interesting and illuminating, a snapshot of a fast-changing world awash with innovators, creators and doers making their world a better place.
For information on sponsoring issues of the magazine, either through helping to fund its print run, or through an insert relating to an issue's theme with pertinent content for our readers, contact Cosmas Gitta at cosmas.gitta@undp.org.
Online archives: southerninnovator.org; http://www.scribd.com/SouthernInnovator. Follow us
@SouthSouth1
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