The last few weeks I’ve been to Europe and what an interesting journey it has been. I was representing RLabs in Portugal at the Annual International School of Digital Transformation in Porto, Portugal and the week was an opportunity to learn from experts and meet incredible people from all over the world. However, the highlight [...]
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Introducing RLabs Portugal
Posted: 17th August 2010 by Marlon in News, UncategorizedTags: Living Labs, Reconstructed Living Lab, RLabs, RLabs Portugal
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ICT4D 3.0: The future of ICT4D
Posted: 11th August 2010 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: Community Empowerment, Community in Tension (CiT), ICT4D, M4D, SM4D, thoughts
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 [...]
Community-Driven Mind Map at ISDT 2010
Posted: 30th July 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, UncategorizedTags: Community, Community Empowerment, Community-driven Innovation, ISDT10
Below is a mind map of a discussion held at the International School of Digital Transformation in Porto, Portugal thanks to Ricardo Cruz:
Future Everything: The City as a Living Lab
Posted: 13th July 2010 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: Innovation, Living Labs, Reconstructed Living Lab, RLabs
Below is a very interesting presentation on another use of the Living Lab concept that immediately gave a few ideas on how we can continue evolving our Reconstructed Living Lab movement.
FutureEverything – The City as Living Lab or Play Space
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10 Days of Sex, Drugs, MXit and ISLabs
Posted: 6th July 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, Mobile, News, UncategorizedTags: Drug Advice Support, Impact Direct, ISLabs, JamiiX, Mobile Counselling, Mobile Phones, mxit, RLabs
Today marked the 10th day since we’ve moved our Drug Advice Support (DAS) service over to JamiiX in collaboration with MXit. It was also an opportunity for JamiiX to test out its new Virtual Machines provided by our hosting partner ISLabs. The partnership with ISLabs really brought much better performance to the DAS service therefore [...]
JamiiX provide Virtual Support Centre for Drug Awareness Week
Posted: 25th June 2010 by Marlon in Mobile, UncategorizedTags: DAS, Drug Advice Support, JamiiX, media, Mobile Phones, mxit, RLabs
The collaboration platform Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) has created a live counselling portal, JamiiX, on mobile social network MXit called ‘Angel’. According to RLabs, the portal is for South African youth in need of substance abuse counselling, and is being released in conjunction with Drug Awareness Week (21 to 27 June). Currently Angel have [...]
Drug Advice Support Counselling via MXit
Posted: 21st June 2010 by Marlon in Mobile, News, UncategorizedTags: Drug Advice Support, drug counselling, JamiiX, Mobile Counselling, Mobile Phones
This week is sustance abuse week and RLabs have partnered with MXit to bring a LIVE counselling support service to the 28,000 plus subscribers to our Angel Information Service. Today in our 3 hour service the following statistics were achieved with 8 counsellors:
- Number of Conversations: 385
- Number of Messages: 2867
- Average Conversations per counsellor: [...]