This is a great comment at the news of ColaLife reaching the semi-finals of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge which I will use to strengthen my response to one of the most common questions I get asked about ColaLife: ‘How can you possibly even consider working with a company like Coca-Cola?’ (That’s a polite version). Although [...]
Progress Report – 30/12/09
30 December 2009 by Leave a Comment
Child at Rene MDC, Tanzania, November 2008 Image credit: Simon Berry May 1988 – May 2008 – the first 7,305 days – no progress! May 1988 Had the idea while working on the British Aid Programme in NE Zambia that Coca-Cola’s distribution muscle could be used to distribute oral rehydration salts in developing countries I [...]
Why I’m very pleased to be speaking at Chain Reaction next week
5 November 2009 by Leave a Comment
Simon Berry on ColaLife and Chain Reaction Colalife is a great idea. It’s not the idea it was a year ago. It’s much better. I’m a great believer in open innovation which is essentially the process of opening up of ideas to others so that they are made better (the ideas not the people). That’s [...]
ColaLife moves on the rest of Europe – Part 2
1 September 2009 by 2 Comments
I have been invited to give a ColaLife presentation at the 8th Annual World Food Technology & Innovation convention in Rotterdam at 15:35 on 27 October. It looks like it’s a plenary session. The programme is here. This is the pitch I will be going in on: Distributing commercial products in developing countries fulfils one [...]
Progress Report – 26/8/09
26 August 2009 by 2 Comments
Child at Rene MDC, Tanzania, November 2008 Image credit: Simon Berry May 1988 – May 2008 – the first 7,305 days – no progress! May 1988 Had the idea while working on the British Aid Programme in NE Zambia that Coca-Cola’s distribution muscle could be used to distribute oral rehydration salts in developing countries I [...]
The ColaLife story as told by the BBC’s iPM programme
4 May 2009 by 1 Comment
The BBC’s iPM programme, which goes out on a Saturday on Radio 4, has maintained a keen interest in the ColaLife story. For convenience, I have brought together the features they have created and broadcast in the last 12 months into this post (see below). In addition to these broadcasts, Jennifer Tracey, of iPM did [...]
ColaLife – the story so far – 25/4/09
26 April 2009 by 5 Comments
The ColaLife Story So Far – 25/4/09 on Slideshare View more presentations from s1m0nb3rry. Here’s the presentation I gave yesterday at the Africa Gathering event at Birkbeck College, London. The audio was added retrospectively. The ‘Live’ version was a lot more fun! But all the facts are here. The videos and audio mentioned in the [...]
Coca-Cola say ‘Yes’ (probably) to trials this year
22 April 2009 by 25 Comments
Image credit: Alison Pearson. Thanks to the children of the N’gombe Compound in Lusaka, Zambia. A handful of ColaLife supporters attended the public Business Fights Poverty event at the Commonwealth Club last night to hear Euan Wilmshurst, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, The Coca-Cola Company, give a qualified YES to trials of the ColaLife idea before the [...]
Bob Geldof on ColaLife, Condoms and the Pope
2 April 2009 by 17 Comments
Simon Berry talks to Bob Geldof about Colalife.org, condoms and the Pope from Podnosh on Vimeo. Thanks to Nick Booth’s (podnosh) journalistic instincts I was able to get in front of Bob Geldof and, rather nervously, explain the ColaLife campaign to him. He got it and had some interesting observations. It is clear we share [...]
Who are the G20 bloggers?
2 April 2009 by Leave a Comment
Based on an original post by Ponosh. Image credit: Dave Walker Who are the G20 bloggers (?) I hear you ask. Here’s a simple list of our sites: Daniel Kaufman www.thekaufmannpost.net Ahmed Al-Omran saudijeans.org Sokari Ekine www.blacklooks.org Simon Berry www.colalife.org/blog/ Sunball Hussain and Joe Rowley (DfID youth bloggers) dfidyouthreporters.wordpress.com Dave Walker (Church Times blogger/cartoonist) [...]
