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10 Years Ago

It was 10 years ago this month that Southern Innovator‘s first issue launched in New York during the UN’s General Assembly week (UNGA). It focused on mobile phones and information technology for a reason: these connectivity transformations were re-shaping how people lived their lives, even in the poorest and remotest places on earth.

The content was based on global research, beginning in 2007, funded by the United Nations.

Southern Innovator Editor and Writer David South.

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2022/05/27/media/

“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… This is great, engaging, relevant and topical stuff.” Rose Shuman, Founder & CEO, Open Mind and Question Box, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Every issue was launched somewhere new around the world.

While Southern Innovator’s digital presence has been key to its success and global reach, the hard copy of the magazine was designed with special features. The magazine needed to be robust and able to stand a fair bit of abuse and hard wear. It needed to be easy to read in low light conditions. And it needed to look sharp and eye-catching to reach as wide an audience as possible.

“Beautiful, inspiring magazine from UNDP on South-South innovation. Heart is pumping adrenaline and admiration just reading it.”

New Branding and Website

In 2010, as we prepared to launch Southern Innovator, the branding and website for David South Consulting was re-visioned by Icelandic graphic designer and illustrator Sólveig Rolfsdóttir. David South Consulting has been working with clients around the world since 1991.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator: Sólveig Rolfsdóttir.

20 Years Ago

Over 20 Years Ago

Mongolia’s first web magazine, Ger, launched in September 1998. It was also the first web magazine for the United Nations.

“The transformation of Mongolia from a largely rural nomadic society of herdsmen to a community dominated by the increasingly ultra-globalized city of Ulan Bator, where almost a third of the population lives, is nothing short of astounding.“ The New Mongolia: From Gold Rush to Climate Change, Association for Asian Studies, Volume 18:3 (Winter 2013): Central Asia

Logo and graphic design: P. Davaa-Ochir.

Editor-in-Chief David South and UN Mongolia Homepage Webmaster B. Bayasgalan.

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Mongolian Green Book

In the Mongolian language, the book details effective ways to live in harmony with the environment while achieving development goals. Based on three years’ work in Mongolia – a Northeast Asian nation coping with desertification, mining, and climate change – the book presents tested strategies.

Publisher: EPAP and UNDP Mongolia Communications Office
Published: 1999
Author: Robert Ferguson

The Mongolian Green Book was part of an information campaign under the Environmental Public Awareness Programme (EPAP) funded by the European Union and UNDP.

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https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_92_54

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2021/01/02/a-undp-success-story-grassroots-environmental-campaign-mobilizes-thousands-in-mongolia-1998/

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In Their Own Words: Selected Writings By Journalists On Mongolia, 1997-1999 | 6 January 2010

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Editor-in-Chief: David South

Research Editor: Julie Schneiderman

ISBN 99929-5-043-9

Launched in 1999 towards the end of my two-year assignment in Mongolia, this book is a unique resource for a developing country: a one-stop compilation of journalism chronicling the ups and downs of life in a country where the political and economic system has been turned on its head. You can download an edited selection of the book from Google Books here: In their own words: Selected writings by journalists on Mongolia, 1997-1999.

Now also available at the University of Toronto: https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?3403065

The UNDP Mongolia Communications Office aided many journalists to cover Mongolia from 1997-1999. Three examples are below:

“Herding instinct” by Jill Lawless, *The Guardian*, 9 June 1999.

“A Mongolian Shopping Spree Fizzles” by Thomas Crampton, *The New York Times*, June 25, 1998.

“The Milk of Kindness Flows in a Peculiar Land A Steppe From Nowhere” by Leslie Chang, *The Asian Wall Street Journal*, 15 August 1998.

Top journalists covering Asia in the late 1990s contributed to the book.

Citations

The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams, Hachette Books, 2018, ISBN 9780316382502

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2021/06/14/case-study-1-investigative-journalism-1991-1997-2/

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2020/12/19/case-study-4-un-undp-mongolia-1997-1999/

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2021/07/14/freedom-of-expression-introducing-investigative-journalism-to-local-media-in-mongolia-1999-25-january-2016/

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2021/05/25/ger-mongolias-first-web-magazine-and-a-pioneering-web-project-for-the-united-nations-12-january-2016/

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2022/05/16/high-impact-communications-in-a-major-crisis-undp-mongolia-1997-1999-18-february-2016/

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2021/03/12/mongolia-prepares-for-a-magazine-explosion-1998/

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2020/05/01/a-partnership-for-progress-undp-in-mongolia-1997-19-january-2016/

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2021/07/15/undp-mongolia-handbooks-and-books-1997-1999/

https://davidsouthconsulting.org/2022/05/27/undp-travelling-seminar-environment-and-development-mongolia-1998/

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UNDP Mongolia Handbooks And Books | 1997 – 1999

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Publisher: UNDP Mongolia Communications Office

UNDP Mongolia Communications Coordinator: David South

Environmental Public Awareness Handbook: Case Studies and Lessons Learned in Mongolia

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2002) said: “ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC AWARENESS AND THE ROLE OF NGOS The Dutch / UNDP – funded Environmental Public Awareness Project ( EPAP ) has been among the most interesting and possibly effective to be implemented in Mongolia.”

Mongolian Green Book

More books by Rob Ferguson:

*The Devil And The Disappearing Sea: Or, How I Tried To Stop The World’s Worst Ecological Catastrophe* (Raincoast Books).

Mongolian Rock and Pop Book

Pop music helps fuel Mongolia’s market economy by Oyuntungalag.

As cited in the book Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China’s Mongolian Frontier by Uradyn E. Bulag (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010).

Mongolia Update 1998

Other

Wild East: Travels in the New Mongolia

Wild East: Travels in the New Mongolia by Jill Lawless (ECW Press, 2000) is one of many books featuring content and resources resulting from the two-year publishing programme of the UNDP Mongolia Communications Office (1997-1999).