Today learners from Hanover Park came for Social Media training with RLabs that will be hosted over the next 2 days. Ten learners who are in need of job readiness skills were introduced to basic social media skills, email, Google Docs, information searching and gathering, filesharing sites, blogging and micro-blogging. This is a continuous effort [...]
This morning a number of the RLabs team went to schools across the Western Cape to share the Mobile Counselling service with the learners. These roadshows are part of a RLabs project to support children at risk who are impacted by substance abuse and who are at risk. This initiative is support by a number [...]
Yesterday we launched the second year of our Mom 2.0 programme where we teach women from our community (Buzz at RLabs above)how to use Social Media to share stories, local news and to connect with other women globally. This year’s programme will be different in we will not just explore various Social Media technologies [...]
Over the past few years mobile banking and reaching the unbanked have proved to be invaluable to the African Economy. Payment products such as M-Pesa have proved to be popular in countries such as Kenya but yet to be adopted in the South African context. However, with hundreds of thousands in South African prisons it [...]
After 6 weeks of distributed mobile counselling for learners at schools who are in need of support with the problem of substance abuse, MoCo (Our Mobile Counselling service) have reached a thousand users with an average of 20 users being supported in 4 hours.
The service is a clear indication that organisations who wish to reach [...]
Only 5 weeks away to one of Cape Town’s most exciting Mobile events to date, its the official launch of the Betavine Social Exchange Cape Town Developer Day. This will be a great opportunity for local mobile developers to develop relevant localised solutions for communities in need of specialised mobile solutions. With such a great [...]
Thanks to the excellent team at The Digital Edge who showcased The Story of the Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) in their show today. The Digital Edge is hosted by Saul Kropman and Jarred Cinman and is a weekly podcast brought to you by Cambrient which will expose its listeners to the inner workings of digital [...]
After testing the mobile counselling service at different locations by various non-profits over the past 6 weeks, we’ve managed to achieve the following numbers:
Subscribers: 455
Conversations: 2073
Messages: 47482
The idea with this pilot is to investigate the use of a Cloud Counselling methodology to support citizens who are in [...]
After an exciting weekend with RLabs Superstars hosting the FIRST African Social Media Surgery, it was no surprise that they had local newspaper and radio coverage this week. More can be read about the Social Media Surgery as described by surgeons Brent Williams, Clinton Liederman and Craig Ross. Looking forward to the next Social Media [...]
Last weekend I had the privilege to spend a few hours with some of the great “Geek” minds in South Africa at the GeekRetreat. As a “wanna be” Social Entrepreneur who always looks for opportunities to make a difference in the lives of others, the GeekRetreat seemed to be the perfect way to kick-start and [...]
