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Dear all,
2011 saw the launch of new global magazine Southern Innovator (SI). The magazine's first three issues have launched and issues four and five are in development and will be released later in 2013. Read on to find out more about progress.
Since 2007, DS Consulting has been working with the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation in UNDP (formerly the United Nations Development Programme’s Special Unit for South-South Cooperation), tracking the most exciting event of our times: the rise of the global South as an economic powerhouse.
On top of documenting the trends and new players shaping this fast-changing world, DS Consulting worked on developing Southern Innovator, launched in May 2011. Southern Innovator (ISSN 2222-9280) is designed by Icelandic graphic designer Sólveig Rolfsdóttir and is intended to showcase innovation-led ways people across the global South are making money and fighting poverty. It is being distributed around the world and online.
It can be read online here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/57980406/Southern-Innovator-Issue-1 here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/86451057/Southern-Innovator-Magazine-Issue-2 here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/106055665/Southern-Innovator-Magazine-Issue-3-Agribusiness-and-Food-Security and here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/128283953/Southern-Innovator-Magazine-Issue-4.
If you would like hard copies of the magazine for distribution, then please contact the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation: Website: http://ssc.undp.org/content/ssc.html. If you would like to either sponsor an issue of Southern Innovator or place an advertisement in the magazine, then please contact southerninnovator@yahoo.co.uk. This is a great opportunity to reach millions around the world and to connect with the pioneers and innovators shaping this new world. With Issue 4 tackling the timely theme of Cities and Urbanization, this is the moment to get on board and help support SI. With global urbanization levels continuing to rise, fresh thinking of the kind found in Southern Innovator's fourth issue is urgently required.
An ad promoting the magazine's second issue is below:
As the target year for the Millennium Development Goals, 2015, approaches, the relevance of Southern Innovator (ISSN 2222-9280) will become clear as governments and people scramble to try and meet the goals.
DS Consulting has also launched this website, www.davidsouthconsulting.com, which represents the next phase of expansion. It is structured around the key practice areas and features past case studies and successes. Over the last three years, the back catalogue of previous work has also been migrated online (http://www.scribd.com/DSConsulting). This includes work rescuing Mongolia’s economy from the biggest peacetime post-WWII economic collapse and transformative work in child health with the UK’s National Health Service.
You can catch up on my archive of case studies as well at www.davidsouthconsulting.wordpress.com, and keep abreast of the many changes coming for 2013. The case studies are a mix of inspiring stories, insight, analysis and trends: A good snapshot of a fast-changing world.
A great deal of work has gone into laying the foundations for future growth at DS Consulting. The fruits of this work will become more apparent as 2013 unfolds.
Dave
DS Consulting
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GOSH ¦ 2001 to 2003
Award-winning Child Health Web Portal
Britain’s best-loved children’s hospital and charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH), contracted me to lead a two-year project to modernise the hospital’s web presence and take its brand into the 21st century. GOSH is both Britain’s oldest children’s...
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“An outstanding example of how a hospital can create quality, authoritative information on issues relating to health in a fun, child-centred and accessible way.”
Cable and Wireless Childnet Award on Children First health web portal, 2003
What's new
December 2012 Development Challenges, South-South Solutions: The latest issue is now available online for download with a new design template.
Some comments that have come in so far about SI's first issue:
"What a tremendous magazine your team has produced! It's a terrific tour de force of what is interesting, cutting edge and relevant in the global mobile/ICT space... Really looking forward to what you produce in issues #2 and #3. This is great, engaging, relevant and topical stuff.", to "Looks great. Congratulations. It’s Brill’s Content for the 21st century!"
What they are saying about SI on Twitter: From @CapacityPlus Nice job RT @ActevisCGroup: RT @UNDP: Great looking informative @SouthSouth1 mag on South-South Innovation; @UNDP Great looking informative @SouthSouth1 mag on South-South Innovation; @JeannineLemaire Graphically beautiful & informative @UNDP Southern Innovator mag on South-South Innov.
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. Two archived screen grabs from the magazine are below:
Infographics: Infographics have proven a useful visual aid for communicating human development concepts. This example was created for a report for UNDP Mongolia during missions undertaken in 2005.
