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Opportunity Asia: Mobile and Internet growth
Posted on 28 December 2011.
We Are Social's Guide to Social, Digital & Mobile in Asia (Overview, Nov 2011) View more presentations from We Are Social Singapore
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RLabs Academy Courses for 2012 announced
Posted on 28 December 2011.
After an eventful 2011 with more than 250 graduates, the RLabs Academy in Cape Town is launching exciting new courses with an offering of 16 courses for 2012. The courses include Social Media, Web and Multimedia, Entrepreneurship as well as Leadership courses. Registration will take place during January 2012 and all courses offered are FREE [...]
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Three social entrepreneurship lessons gained in Morogoro
Posted on 06 December 2011.
It was an early start to the day in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania but we were all looking forward visiting the rural town of Morogoro, located 190km from the city centre. Along with the TANZICT team and CEO of COSTECH Incubator we had a long 3 hour drive ahead and driving into beautiful Morogoro [...]
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Social Innovation in Tanzania
Posted on 02 December 2011.
Arriving in Dar es Salaam a few days ago brought an air of excitement in that it is a city with so much potential and a growing interest in technology. The RLabs visit was in partnership with TANZICT that stands for The Information Society and ICT Sector Development Project. It’s bilateral collaboration project between the [...]
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Uusi: Your New Beginning
Posted on 25 November 2011.
“Uusi” – meaning New in Finnish After 18 months of conceptualizing, testing and getting community members to engage with it on different platforms, Uusi the brain-child of one of the RLabs champions, Terence Hendricks, finally was privately released to the public only on the MXit platform. Using MXit as the launchpad was an obvious choice [...]
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ICT4D 3.0: The future of ICT4D
Posted on 03 November 2011.
Over the past few years increasingly practitioners, researchers, social entrepreneurs, technologists and others have been buzzing with the concept of ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development). Although many initiatives, projects and programmes have claimed to be ICT4D/M4D/SM4D etc. the true impact of these technologies on development of people are yet to be seen. A [...]
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Jack Dorsey: The 3 Keys to Twitter’s success
Posted on 23 October 2011.
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ICT Incubator in Somaliland
Posted on 21 October 2011.
Today was another exciting day for us as we announced a partnership between ExtendedBITS and RLabs to start the first ICT Innovation Incubator in Somaliland. This will provide young people from Somaliland the opportunity to not just gain valuable ICT and Entrepreneurship experience but also provide an opportunity to grow a new breed of African [...]
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RLabs Nigeria on the move
Posted on 19 October 2011.
Last week the RLabs Nigeria partners had an interesting call discussing the rollout of the new project that will be using technology to address the problems of HIV. This partnership between Youth for Technology and RLabs will be supported by Indigo Trust who is know for its impact investments in Africa. The next few weeks [...]
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