The panel discussion on ABC Radio Australia went ahead as planned. The ABC Radio report on the programme is here and you can listen to programme again and download an MP3 of the broadcast here (right-click and select Save As…).
For archive purposes the MP3 is also available on ColaLife’s sound archive on SoundCloud.
Hi Simon
Very good podcast – well done.
I have been on the Australian Aid social protection panel for the last few years; so I have alerted my colleagues in DFAT to this excellent debate…
All the best
N
Thanks N. Much appreciated. Please pass back any feedback.
The flaw in the idea that Coke gets everywhere so let’s use The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) to deliver essential medicines (EMs) is that it’s NOT TCCC that takes their product the last mile. However, there is a delivery channel there that might be used, it just doesn’t belong to TCCC. Here’s our idea on how this channel might be used to get EMs to remote frontline health workers:
https://www.colalife.org/2013/03/08/could-the-private-sector-supply-remote-rural-health-posts-in-zambia/
Simon
Hi Simon
That was indeed the point which I liked most in the podcast: that Julie Bishop may have seen cans of coke in remote villages, but she would never have seen a TCCC truck there.
I still think you should become “foralife”! [But then I guess ABC might not have found you after Julie’s specific reference to Coca-Cola!!].
A luta continua…
N
See also:
How the Coca-Cola Distribution Works
https://www.colalife.org/2010/12/19/how-coca-colas-distribution-system-works/
And
Our concept for the distribution of medicines by rural retailers plays out in real life
https://www.colalife.org/2013/03/23/our-concept-for-the-distribution-of-medicines-by-rural-retailers-plays-out-in-real-life/
🙂
S