Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 1

By David South

Subjects: cell phones, mobile phones and information technology, Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 1, 2011, UNOSSC, Editor and Writer David South, Graphic Designer and Illustrator Solveig Rolfsdottir, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, UNDP

Description: Launched in May 2011, the new global magazine Southern Innovator profiles the people across the global South shaping our new world, eradicating poverty and working towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). They are the innovators. It chronicles what has been called the Development 2.0 Revolution: the use of innovative new technologies to radically alter the dynamics of development. Southern Innovator's first issue tackled the theme of mobile phones and information technology in the global South. It identified mobile phone pioneers and transformative information technologies reducing poverty and boosting human development in the global South. It was one of the first publications to document and capture this trend.