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New Magazine Targets Innovators in Global South
United Nations, New York, 20 September 2011
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Southern Innovator is a new magazine for a fast-changing world.
It profilesand celebrates the innovators across the global South
finding new ways totackle poverty, create wealth and improve human
development and achievethe millennium development goals (MDGs). In
its first issue, SouthernInnovator features the people who are
re-shaping new technologies frommobile phone apps to Internet
technologies - to overcome poverty and toimprove the quality of
life in some of the poorest places on earth.
SI is based on intensive research and is produced by UNDPs
Special Unit for South-South Cooperation
(www.southerninnovator.org). The Unit is theleading organisation in
the world tasked with the goal of sharing knowledgeacross the
global South. It organises events including the yearly
South-SouthExpo (www.southsouthexpo.org), a roaming celebration and
gathering of Southern innovators previously held in New York and
Geneva, Switzerland.This years Expo will be held in Rome, Italy (5
to 9 December 2011).
SI is being distributed around the world through the United
Nations networkand partners and reaches some of the poorest and
remotest places as well asthe vibrant but stressed growing global
megacities. It is hoped the magazinewill inspire budding innovators
with its mix of stories, essential information,facts and figures,
images and graphics. The magazine will evolve based onreader
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 ina short space of time. Few could have imagined the
rapid take-up of mobilephones in Africa and how these phones have
become integral to developmentgoals across the continent.
SI magazine is a quarterly publication and the next issues will
launch inSeptember and December of this year.
A summary for publication is here:
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Southern Innovator (ISSN 2222-9280) is a quarterly magazine
published bythe United Nations Development Programmes Special Unit
for South-SouthCooperation. Launched in May 2011, SI is a new
magazine celebratingcreativity and innovation emerging from the
global South. It exploresentrepreneurial solutions to development
challenges and uncovers the trends
and events shaping the rise of the South in order to spur action
on endingextreme poverty and toward reaching the Millennium
Development Goals(MDGs).
We hope you enjoy the magazine and find its content interesting
andilluminating: a snapshot of a fast-changing world awash, as we
found out, withinnovators, creators and do-ers making their world a
better place.
For more information on Southern Innovator contact Cosmas Gitta
[email protected] or editor David South
[email protected].
www.southerninnovator.org
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]
