New Magazine Targets Innovators in Global South | 2011

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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

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© David South Consulting 2021

Update on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 10:47AM by David South

Interviews for the Development Challenges, South-South Solutions e-newsletter 

In 2008 writer and researcher David South interviewed Question Box's founder Rose Shuman and in 2011 Question Box was featured in Southern Innovator's first issue on mobile phones and information technology.

In 2009 writer and researcher David South interviewed Joana Breidenbach at the betterplace.org Berlin HQ for the United Nations e-newsletter Development Challenges, South-South Solutions.

In 2010 writer and researcher David South interviewed co-editor Charlotte Mathivet on her new book, Cities for All.

A tweet from UN Development in 2012. Southern Innovator Magazine can be downloaded from the UNOSSC website.

 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) posted on Facebook about the second issue of Southern Innovator Magazine.