Through the efforts of Rohit Ramchandani (pictured on his last trip to Zambia in April/May this year), ColaLife’s public health adviser, we are being considered for a Grand Challenges Canada Rising Stars in Global Health award and we need your help! The public is being asked to vote on their favorite applications/ideas which can be [...]
More on the Coca-Cola MDC System
29 March 2011 by 1 Comment
I stumbled across this video presentation today on the Coca-Cola MDC system. I was hoping to participate in this Webinar organised by the Business Call to Action on 13/1/11 but had a clash in my diary. I hadn’t realised it had been made available on YouTube. The presentation is delivered by Adrian Ristow who was [...]
ColaLife in Schools
15 March 2011 by 3 Comments
ColaLife for Kids on Prezi There is a young and very creative teacher at Acton High School called Emma Berry (don’t ask) who wove ColaLife into a recent classroom session for year 5 children getting ready to move up to secondary school. Emma used existing ColaLife media (on Flickr and YouTube) to produce the above [...]
Progress Report 28/09/10
28 September 2010 by Leave a Comment
Children of Mikindani, Tanzania with a model Mark III AidPod, January 2009 Image credit: Tim Dench Next moves 5,500 children die every day in Africa before the age of 5. This initiative could save thousands and thousands of children’s lives through positive engagement between the private and NGO sector. Field trip to Zambia in October [...]
ColaLife FAQs Live!
30 June 2010 by 12 Comments
Back in February 2010, ColaLife supporter, Lisa ter Haar of onlyconnectcommunication contacted me. She’d mentioned ColaLife in a lecture to her students at the Hult International Business School and they’d had lots and lots of questions. So Lisa invited me in for a question and answer session the following week (1/3/10). When I got the [...]
Progress Report – 30/4/10
2 May 2010 by 1 Comment
Children of Mikindani, Tanzania with a model Mark III AidPod, January 2009 Image credit: Tim Dench 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 [...]
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 [...]
The ColaLife Channel launches
14 November 2009 by 5 Comments
A key element of the online part of the ColaLife campaign has been to take a multi-channel approach and get ColaLife everywhere. We didn’t start with a website and expect people to find us, we went to all the places potential supporters might be. So we are: On Facebook – facebook.com/colalife On Twitter – twitter.com/colalife [...]
ColaLife autumn speaking tour hits the trains
22 October 2009 by 4 Comments
Through a string of very fortunate coincidences, tomorrow I get on a train to begin a pretty high profile (although I say so myself!) ColaLife speaking tour! The first stop is Rotterdam for the 8th Annual World Food and Innovation Conference to give a plenary presentation on ColaLife to the big boys and girls of the [...]
ColaLife Twittermob – the video!
18 July 2009 by 4 Comments
ColaLife Twittermob in Trafalgar Square. Thanks to David Wilcox for this video. David has kindly put others here on YouTube and Qik. Do you have any photos or video from the event? Let us know where they are (by commenting) and we will link to them. If you’re tagging please use ‘colalife’. >> More video [...]
