As my two and a half week trip to the USA and Canada draws to a close and my final presentation at C2MTL has been delivered I’m reflecting on the trip and I will be reporting on it over the next week or so. To kick off here is a 2-part video interview filmed during […]
South Africa, Expressions of Interest and the prototype packaging
1 February 2012 by
The Trademark Southern Africa (TMSA) team | January 2012 Sorry it’s been a bit quiet on the blog but that doesn’t mean there’s been nothing going on – quite the contrary in fact. Here’s a summary of the last week or so. The highlight was the TMSA Retreat in South Africa. As I have explained […]
Convening Power
9 April 2011 by
As it is the weekend(!) I am affording myself the luxury of straying from the day-to-day of ColaLife to write down the things I’ve been saying about “Convening Power” during recent presentations (Royal Society of Medicine, TEDx Berlin) and how we’ve used this to get where we’ve got with the ColaLife project. The term, Convening […]
Always Cola, Rarely Essential Medicines
21 March 2011 by
Last week we received and email from one of our Virtual Advisory Board members, Prashant Yadav, drawing our attention to a paper just published by INSEAD and co-authored by Prashant YADAV, Orla STAPLETON and Luk N. VAN WASSENHOVE. The paper is entitled: Always Cola, Rarely Essential Medicines: Comparing Medicine and Consumer Product Supply Chains in the Developing World. A […]
Dr Phillip Lee MP joins Virtual Advisory Board
24 November 2010 by
Phillip was a full-time GP before entering the UK Parliament as a new MP in the May 2010 election as Member of Parliament for Bracknell. He is a Member of the Energy & Climate Change Select Committee. He is also a Member of the House of Commons Administration Committee. He has been elected Chairman the All […]
Dr Prashant Yadav joins Virtual Advisory Board
6 November 2010 by
Look at virtually any paper or report on drug distribution in developing countries, especially if there’s an element of innovation about it, and the chances are it will have Prashant’s name on it. Prashant has been guiding us since the end of July as we move towards a pilot of the ColaLife concept. He has […]
Zambia Diary | Day 3 | More insights, increased complexity
13 October 2010 by
Jane at Medical Stores Limited. This was our first meeting of the trip and got us off to a great start We started today with four meetings scheduled but ended up having 6! And the last one ended at 9:40pm 10km south of Lusaka. We’ve covered the whole range of stakeholders today from UNICEF, through […]
