Southern Innovator Summary of Impact 2012 to 2014

Southern Innovator (SI) is the world’s first magazine to connect innovation and human development. Southern Innovator does not just tell stories, it shows how innovations work and connects readers with the contacts and resources they need to replicate or modify the innovations for their local conditions. SI gathers the data, trends and stories relevant to the global South’s innovators and distributes it in myriad ways intended to reach as wide an audience as possible, including using social media, mobile and online media. Since the first issue in 2011, SI has been able to use the global South’s rising number of mobile and Internet readers to help spread ideas. It has – along with its sister publication, e-newsletter Development Challenges, South-South Solutions – focused on, and drawn attention to, a rising 21st-century global innovator culture. In five issues with five themes published from 2011 to 2014, Southern Innovator has encouraged the wider United Nations and others to embrace innovation to solve development challenges – and the impact is visible around the world, from books to media stories to a strategic repositioning of the UN’s development agency, UNDP. SI’s relationship with the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), which acts as the high-level adviser to the UN’s Secretary-General on South-South cooperation, has helped raise the profile of the innovators and their ideas featured in the magazine. But what matters most is SI readers: as one reader on Pinterest.com said: “Beautiful, inspiring magazine from UNDP on South-South innovation. Heart is pumping adrenaline and admiration just reading it”.

Summary of Impact

Designing Change for Human Development

Messaging and Reinforcement of Concepts and Knowledge

Innovator: DefinitionA person who introduces new methods, ideas, or products.Source: Oxford Dictionary of English

Southern Innovator: DefinitionAn innovator from the global South.Source: Southern Innovator

InfographicsThe stories and ideas captured in the e-newslet-ter and magazine are further reinforced through various visual tools. To help readers grasp com-plex trends, data or events, infographics are used to give a simple snapshot and big-picture view of what has happened and is happening.

IllustrationsIllustrations serve several goals: they encap-sulate a story’s innovation in a simple, visual form; they give a ‘blueprint’ of how a particular innovation works; and they make the reader see how the different pieces of the innovation puzzle fit together.

Iconic imagesIconic images throughout the magazine reinforce the Southern Innovator cultural message, show-ing how technology aids in poverty reduction.

United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, United Nations Development Programme

A magazine celebrating South-South innovation

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Empowered lives.Resilient nations.

Cradle-to-cradle Pen Solution

Designing for a New Africa

Zero-waste Solutions

IN THIS ISSUE:

Waste &

Improving Human Development with Finite Resources

Recycling Issue

WASTE

RECYCLINGBuilding Green Businesses That Work: From Fashion to Fuel to Farms

KEY DATAFacts and Figures

STATE OF PLAYMobiles Transforming Green Solutions: A How-to Guide Pages 26-27

98% Recyclable

Turning Waste into Wealth in the 21st Century





Cities &

The Global South's Increasing Urbanization: Challenges to City Living

Urbanization Issue


STATE OF PLAYSolutions for Planned and Unplanned Cities

URBANIZATIONMaking Urban Environments Liveable

CITIESGreat Housing Solutions and Building Technologies

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Smart Cities Up Close

Urbanization Trends

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Human Development and Innovation: The Methodology behind the Magazine

All the content in the magazine is chosen for its relevance to human development. SI tries to give readers the resources they require to replicate or adapt innovations featured in the magazine. Originally inspired by the impact of mobile phone and information technologies on Africa, Southern Innovator features the innovations and innovators in an expanding 21st-century global innovator culture, where people are using new information technologies to solve problems and improve their lives and their communities. One insight gleaned from the hundreds of hours of research that goes into the mag-azine (by an editor with two decades of experience working in international devel-opment) is the importance of good design to successful innovation. It is also key to successful human development. The magazine seeks to set a good example by the way it is put together and presented. It seeks to show that good design leads to better use of resources and more successful outcomes.

CommentsOn Southern Innovator

“Btw, I really enjoyed reading them, impressive work & a great resource. Looking for-ward to Issue 6.” Jeannine Lemaire

“Your insight into the issues facing us a(s) (a) “global Village” is made real in the detail of your article - 10 out of 10 from the moladi team.” Moladi, South Africa www.moladi.net “Beautiful, inspiring magazine from UNDP on South-South innovation. Heart is pumping adrenaline and admiration just reading it.” Peggy Lee on Pinterest.com

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller“ Designed and laid out in Iceland using

100 per cent renewable energy.

Southern Innovator: 2015 to 2017Set up to help countries achieve the Millennium Devel-opment Goals (MDGs) in the years approaching the target deadline of 2015, Southern Innovator highlighted three things which were having a large – but often under-report-ed – impact on development: the rapid take-up of informa-tion technologies, in particular mobile phones, across the global South; increasing trade and contact between countries of the global South on the back of rising economic growth; and the power of innovation – as expressed by the people featured in the magazine – to overcome development chal-lenges, often under the most demanding country conditions.

As people debate the future of development goals post-2015, it is clear that Southern Inno-vator, rather than fading away, needs to scale-up its impact. Since its launch in 2011, the magazine has proven an influ-ential force for positive change and a source of inspiration.

Wipe-free cover

Strong spine

THE MAGAZINE AS A PRODUCT

60 pages

Paper from sustainable

forests.

Clear graphic design guides the

reader through the magazine.Designed using

100% renewable energy.

Green energy: SI is designed and laid out using 100 per cent renewable energy.Sustainable forests: SI is printed on paper from sustainable forest resources.Collaboration with innovators: SI works with innovators to source much of its content.Wipeable cover: A laminated cover ensures the magazine can weather dirt and water spills.60 pages: SI is 60 pages to keep its weight down and lower distribution costs.Strong binding: SI needs to be toughand made to last.

Special Unit for South-South Cooperation, United Nations Development Programme

MOBILE PHONESApps to innovations to pioneers

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYDigital decade delivers huge changes

KEY DATAFacts and figures

STATE OF PLAYWhat is going on across the South?

Mobile Phones & Information Technology IssueHow these tech tools can aid in the push to meet the MDGs


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Cradle-to-cradle Pen Solution

Designing for a New Africa

Zero-waste Solutions

IN THIS ISSUE:

Waste &

Improving Human Development with Finite Resources

Recycling Issue

WASTE

RECYCLINGBuilding Green Businesses That Work: From Fashion to Fuel to Farms


STATE OF PLAYMobiles Transforming Green Solutions: A How-to Guide Pages 26-27

98% Recyclable

Turning Waste into Wealth in the 21st Century

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